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Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We talk about the new MBS FileMaker Plugin 13.4 release: Announcement, release notes, new functions and download FileMaker Monkeybread Plug-in Update 13.4 FileMaker Monkeybread Plug-in Update 13.3 PDF Forms with Submit button for Adobe Reader using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in Debugging your FileMaker Servers with the MonkeyBread Plug-in Digital Docu…

When you enter a MBS function in a calculation on macOS, we show MBS in blue. The function name entered behind it as parameter turns blue if the function is known to the plugin. It will show in red while the function name is not correct. When you type something and you see it in red, then check for typos. As you see we check both parts of the function independently. If the whole name is mistyped, it is all red. If one part is right, we show that part as blue. It can happen that you get two parts correct, but not the whole function and then the quotes and dot are red only. This feature is always on if you have calculation coloring turned on via preferences …

Some of our viewers had questions about making FileMaker systems for their financial institutions and regulations outside of the USA. Join Nick Hunter as he covers these regulations and what FileMaker can do. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

We got a new format button labeled with "ƒ" for the calculation dialog in FileMaker on macOS. We parse the formula, detect which brackets belong together and then output the formula with additional whitespacing. Let's start with a formula we found in our documentation: You see the calculation has some spaces before and after the equal signs, but not much indention. Pressing the ƒ button on the bottom right toolbar, we get this output currently: As you see we indent, add whitespace around operators and break up lines based on their length to show parameters. This is the first version and we have some rules on this, but may fine t…

FileMaker has a variety of ways to enhance the user experience, especially with Finds. Join us as we discuss how to improve your UI with special operators! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Whether you are a beginner or advanced FileMaker developer, you should know how important Server backups are. Join us as we start from the basics and work our way into more advanced Server tips and tricks. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Did you know, that we have an example with snippets for writing scripts and makes them available in Script Workspace to insert via a hotkey? Included with MBS FileMaker Plugin. Please check the Snippets for Windows.fmp12 file. Beside it being for Windows, it can also work on MacOS if needed. So you may use it and then call the "Install Picker Dialog" script in your solution to install it, if you sign-in as developer. The database stores the snippets. If you click the export button, it writes the snippets to a folder. Then later when you hit the hotkey, we show a dialog and list all the snippets in that folder for you to pick one. Once picked, we insert…

Congrats! You made your first FileMaker Solution and now want to share it with others. Join us as we walk you through the Admin Console for Claris FileMaker Server at a beginner's level. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

The presentation about MBS Plugin for EngageU conference. All movies Watch on YouTube. MBS2023.mp4 MBS2023.pdf

Your favorite FileMaker LiveStream is back with a new topic! Learn about the different options you have when sharing a Claris FileMaker Solution on a beginner level. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Did you know that MongoDB has a watch feature (change stream) to see what happens in the database? You can watch a client (your connection) with MongoDB.WatchClient, a database with MongoDB.WatchDatabase or just a collection with MongoDB.WatchCollection function. Once watch is active, you can query MongoDB.NextChange regularly and see if you get a JSON with a new change. In our example database, we run a schedule to look for new changes every 5 seconds and this shows the change as new record in our example. You can use this feature for various purposes, including: Real-time Data Synchronization: You can use watch feature to keep data in syn…

This may change how you write scripts. Your longer scripts may now have an index on top with goto: URLs jumping to specific lines. The goto:start and goto:end links may help to jump to start or end of the script. And script: links may jump to a different script. Let's start with script links. You put in the script name after the script: prefix. The plugin will read the name, decode percent escaped sequences and looks for a script in same file with the given name to show it. If you have special characters in the script name, please use GetAsURLEncoded() function in FileMaker to get the URL encoded properly, e.g. with %20 for spaces. This may look like this in t…

As you may know we have a variable check for FileMaker script workspace for macOS in MBS FileMaker Plugin. This works fine for most scripts, but you may need to know a few pitfalls. Since the plugin reads what is in the script workspace window and FileMaker truncates long lines, it will not catch a variable mistyped in a very long line. When we read a calculation like this one: Let([ // define some variables $varDefined = 1; $secondVarDefined = 2]; $varDefined) The plugin sees it as Let([ // define some variables $varDefined = 1; $secondVarDefined = 2]; $varDefined) We don't get line breaks, so we have no idea where the comment ends and thus we can't find …

Today we have a tip for you without using MBS FileMaker Plugin and in pure FileMaker. Let's say you like to query current records in your found set as JSON, how would you do this? First you need the list of the primary keys and we like to use a While() for this. For older FileMaker versions, you could use FM.Loop instead. The loop goes over found set and just queries primary key fields for all records in found set: While ( [ liste = ""; i = 0 ] ; i < Get(FoundCount) ; [ i = i + 1; liste = GetNthRecord ( FileMaker Ideas::PrimaryKey ; i ) & "¶" & liste ] ; liste ) We could store this in $Keys and then continue with building the reques…

As you may know, you can show a list dialog with MBS FileMaker Plugin by using our ListDialog functions. For next version 13.5 we add new functions for having checkboxes in the list. Screenshot from macOS: The list dialog can now operate in multiple modes: Like the simplest version would be to just show a list, the user double clicks an item and the dialog closes (or pick one and clicks select button). Other way would be to allow multiple selection (see ListDialog.SetAllowMultipleSelection) and then pick a few items from a list and click select button. If needed, the user may first use the filter to narrow selection. You can't ju…

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JMESPath (pronounced "jay-mess-path") is a query language and a specification for searching and extracting data from JSON documents. It provides a way to perform complex queries and transformations on JSON data, making it easier to work with structured data within JSON objects. JMESPath is similar in concept to other query languages like SQL for databases or XPath for XML documents, but it's specifically designed for JSON. We add JMESPath to our MBS FileMaker Plugin for the upcoming version 13.5 with the JSON.Search function. You may use this function to find things and then also check JSON.Replace to replace values you selected with an expression. Here ar…

The FileMaker News coverage of Claris FileMaker 20.2 Update continues! Watch this LiveStream to learn more about the NEW powerful layout object with Richard and Nick. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

BREAKING NEWS: The Claris FileMaker 20.2 update is out! Join Richard and Nick as they break down everything you need to know about this update. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Did you know the MBS FileMaker Plugin can run on all FileMaker versions from 7 to 20.2.1? As of today the current 32-bit Windows version can load in ancient FileMaker Pro 7. We don't expect clients to use that, but from time to time, a client asks about an older FileMaker version. We highly recommend to upgrade to a more recent version. As of today, we have about 21% of users with FileMaker 20.x, about 72% on some 19.x version and just about 6% on older versions. For macOS we support currently macOS 10.13 and newer in FileMaker 14 and newer. If you need plugins folder older macOS versions or 32-bit FileMaker Pro, please let us know. For Windows we support curre…

Did you know you can run CURL commands in background with MBS FileMaker Plugin? Let's start with a simple Insert From URL script like the following one. $url has the URL to query and $json the data to send to whatever web API you like to query. The headers include authentication and content types. Nothing special. The query runs and stores result in $$result and a log into $$debug. Here is the script: Set Variable [ $options ; Value: "-X POST --header \"Authorization: Basic <<API KEY>>\" --header \"Content-Type: application/json\" --header \"Accept: application/json\" --trace $$debug --data @$json " ] Insert from URL [ Select ; With dialog: Off…

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A recording of Stefanie's presentation for Rome FileMaker Week 2023 to talk about what is new in MBS Plugin for Claris FileMaker. All movies Watch on YouTube. MBS-RomeFileMakerWeek-2023.mp4 MBS-RomeFileMakerWeek-2023.pdf

Join Jonathan Ray as he dives into the #1 secret to Database Speed Performance! Here's a hint, it involves auto-enter calculations. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

On your marks. Get set. Go! Join us in this inventory race, where we see how much faster you can track inventory using barcodes or RFID. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Recently we got a request for JSONPath queries in FileMaker, so we looked into various ways on how to implement this. We found a way and got three new functions for you: MBS( "JSON.Query"; json; query; flags ) MBS( "JSON.Search"; json; path ) MBS( "JSON.Replace"; json; path; ReplaceJSON ) Please try them, e.g. run a query against them. Let us take this html: { "store": { "book": [ { "category": "reference", "author": "Nigel Rees", "title": "Sayings of the Century", "price": 8.95 }, { "category": "fiction", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "title": "Sword of Honour", "pr…

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New Claris FileMaker series alert! Nick Hunter will demonstrate how to build a Multi-Criteria filter, without performance issues, in this multi-day LiveStream event. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Updates for the MonkeyBread Plug-in are here! Join us as we go over all the fantastic new changes to one of your favorite FileMaker Plug-ins. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Join Jacob Taylor as he answers questions from viewers on Claris FileMaker Server, Claris FileMaker Cloud and security! Have your own questions? Keep an eye out for future Open Q&As LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Welcome to the HOnza Calculation Magic Show! Without any pre-defined images or webviewers up his sleeves, HOnza manages to create PNG images - including barcodes! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this article we want to introduce you the new functions from the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 13.4. Phidget Let's start with the most comprehensive and coolest new feature of the release: Phidgets. Phidgets are small additional devices that you can connect to your computer and with which you can then input or output data. For example you can connect a small motor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a gyroscope or a small LED display and exchange data with these devices. Since a few years we already have a plugin for Xojo, which allows the interaction with these small devices and we are proud to offer the use of these small devices now also for FileMak…

For Nick Hunter's latest webinar, we dive into implementing web scraping into your FileMaker database without using the webviewer. More specifically, these processes are performed on FileMaker Server! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Add more color to your FileMaker solutions with a color picker! Chris Johnston is here to explain how to accomplish this using a webviewer. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Jonathan Ray is back with an amazing bulk record deletion technique. Not only will this save you time, it'll give you confidence to safely delete records in bulk! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

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Do you believe in Calculation Magic? Join HOnza as he manipulates PDF documents with FileMaker with no plug-ins and no external devices! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Nick Hunter is back with a new series of videos on ChatGPT and FileMaker! Watch this multi-day series to learn how you can incorporate this AI into your FileMaker solution. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Recently a client asked me where all the MBS functions are. Looking in the calculation dialog, you see just MBS listed: If you ask why we don't have over 7000 functions listed there, the answer is easy: It would be a nightmare for you to use. Recently I made a special version of MBS Plugin to register all functions individually and show them in the calculation dialog right away: You don't see the scrollbar on the screenshot, but all 7000 functions are there. The dialog takes about 12 seconds to open as FileMaker adds all the functions to the list. And it takes another 10 seconds to open the MBS section there. There is a significant time cost for having a lot …

Jonathan Ray joins us to discuss a technique that allows you to create multiple records at one time. Learn about this incredible time saving "Shopping Cart" method and add it to your developer tool belt! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Submitting information to your FileMaker database via PDF is another great function that the MonkeyBread Plug-in offers. We'll be covering all the unique options that MBS offers when it comes to PDF forms! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Having issues with your FileMaker Server? The MonkeyBread Plug-in can provide a debugging solution! Use MBS to log intermediate results in your scripts along with the MBS Trace feature. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Join Richard in this beginner and intermediate open Q&A as he discuses topics such as minimal audit logs, capturing photos on iOS using FileMaker Go and more! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

For 13.4 release, we'll update the WebDownloadDelegate functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin to work again with web viewers using WebKit 2 (since FileMaker 16). Once again you can control downloads in FileMaker's web viewer on macOS and iOS. When a download starts, you get a script triggered to inform you about the progress. Then we have script triggers for download finished or failed and to update on progress. The download can be stored in a specific folder with WebDownloadDelegate.SetFolder, but if you don't set it, we will just use a temporary folder. And we create a folder with random GUID as name to make sure the file can be stored on disk without a name …

Jesse Barnum is back with another exciting 360Works Plug-in, Zulu. Learn how to turn any FileMaker Server into a shared calendar server. Zulu will sync FileMaker to iOS, OS X, Google Calendar and Exchange/Office 365! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Join Jesse Barnum from 360Works as he dives into 360Deploy. Learn how you can deploy your development environment onto a production server while keeping data intact! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We talk about the new MBS FileMaker Plugin 13.3 release: Announcement, release notes, new functions and download FileMaker Monkeybread Plug-in Update 13.3 PDF Forms with Submit button for Adobe Reader using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in Debugging your FileMaker Servers with the MonkeyBread Plug-in Digital Document Super Glue in FileMaker What’s New in…

You may find it convenient sometimes to create or update records in a different table without switching layouts. If you do this in a script, you would usually cause a layout change, to fill the fields from the other table on a different layout. However, such a layout change is not really necessary and costs time. Wouldn't it be easier to create a record with only one script line? Without any relationship, portal and layout change? FM.InsertRecord We have the FM.InsertRecord, FM.UpdateRecord and FM.DeleteRecord and related functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin to help you. The FM.InsertRecord function inserts a new record in any table of any database. Relationsh…

Join Richard Carlton and Christian Schmitz as they use the MonkeyBread Plug-in to demo a real world example of combining digital documents together! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Join Richard as he deploys SendGrid, Twilio's SMTP service, to a real customer. He also explores the Sender Policy Framework to prevent your emails from ending up in Spam folders! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Want to sync your databases without a network connection? MirrorSync from 360Works is the answer! Jesse Barnum returns to discuss updates to the MirrorSync product. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this Open Q&A LiveStream, Leland answers some FileMaker-related JSON and JavaScript questions. Have questions of your own? Join us in our next Open Q&A! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Richard and Jacob are back to discuss bug fixes and updates to FileMaker 20.1.2! They also answer open questions on the Claris FileMaker platform, including FileMaker Server. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Data URLs, URLs prefixed with the data: scheme, allow small files to be embedded inline in documents. Leland is here to show how you can do this in FileMaker using the Web Viewer. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this article today I will show you 5 tips and tricks with MBS that can make your life easier. I wish you a lot of fun with it. Open files from container with the click of a button Did you know that with the MBS FileMaker Plugin you can open files directly by script function? This is possible with the function Files.LaunchFile. In the parameters we specify the path to the file that should be opened. Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("Files.LaunchFile"; "/Users/sj/Desktop/abc.png") If you want to open a file from a container, you first have to take a small indirect route, e.g. we store the files in the temporary folder. For this we first use the function Fo…

Richard is back with some new triggers to add to your tool box! This LiveStream discusses triggers for beginning and intermediate developers to be used when database users become idle. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Practice your JavaScript skills with a latency indicator. Leland gives an intro to JS charting and how to add moving gauges to your FileMaker solution! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Interested in transient notifications for your database but don't know where to start? Join Richard Carlton as he breaks down this topic on a beginner and intermediate level! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

You can set optional flags affecting the graphics state, coordinate handling, as well as color and image conversion rules in DynaPDF. MBS( "DynaPDF.SetGStateFlags"; PDF; Value { ; Reset } ) If the parameter Reset is true, the new flags replace current flags. If set to false, the flags are combined with the current flags. Let's check the possible flags to use: RestorePageCoords If set, the current base coordinate system like bottom or top down is saved and restored with the graphics state. This affects calls to DynaPDF.SaveGraphicState and DynaPDF.RestoreGraphicState calls. If not set, this will restore to Bottom-Up coordinates. The DynaPDF.SetPageCoords fun…

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We talk about adding a submit button to a PDF document with DynaPDF functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin to send the PDF file to our server. PDF Forms with Submit button for Adobe Reader using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in Debugging your FileMaker Servers with the MonkeyBread Plug-in Digital Document Super Glue in FileMaker What’s New in the FileMaker MonkeyBr…

Our series on JSON and JavaScript continues with two add-ons! Join Leland as he breaks down JsonArraySort & JsonDiff. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.T www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Deploying FileMaker to customers onsite offers its own set of challenges. Join Richard as he discusses the steps you can take to overcome these challenges as well as examples of his own recent onsite deployments. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this article we want to introduce you the new functions from the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 13.3. PDF Preview With the new version of the plugin we have also added a new component that I would like to introduce to you today. With the Preview component you get a control for macOS and Windows that gives you a PDF preview in the layout. Since the plugin puts the control on the layout, it is independent of FileMaker, it can stay when switching records and can load data from a container field or from a file on disk. First you can use Preview.Available to check if the functions are available for your operating system. With the functions Preview.Create or Previe…

PostMan can be a useful tool for exploring and trying out API's outside of FileMaker. Join Leland in this LiveStream to find out how it works, including a couple examples from ChatGPT's API functionality! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We talk about debugging with the MBS FileMaker Plugin with Trace and Log function to find issues in your scripts, especially on server side. Debugging your FileMaker Servers with the MonkeyBread Plug-in Digital Document Super Glue in FileMaker What’s New in the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in - 13.2 Release The FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in Spotlight: OCR T…

A recording of our short presentation for Reconnect.Sydney to talk about what is new in 2023 for MBS Plugin for Claris FileMaker. All movies Watch on YouTube. MBS-Sydney-2023.mp4

Christian Schmitz has released a new 13.2 version of the MonkeyBread plug-in in the wake of FileMaker 2023. Watch this LiveStream to learn about all the awesome new functions! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

What is cURL and how can we leverage it with FileMaker? This livestream explores cURL options that FileMaker allows us to use in the InsertFromURL script step. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Need to extract text from an image? Let Christian Schmitz show you three different ways to get text from a picture with the MonkeyBread Plug-in. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Continuing our JSON 101 series we tackle Execute DAPI. Using this script step we can query our database and get back JSON data. Let's explore our JSON options for creating the query and parsing the results. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

When you run into trouble and you contact us via support@ email address, we may frequently question you to provide: The text of your script. But, please no screenshot. You can copy the script text into an email or print to PDF. The log of plugin calls from Trace function, so we see what you call and what parameters you actually pass. If CURL functions are involved, the CURL debug messages via CURL.GetDebugMessages function. We frequently ask to reproduce the problem in a new database or with a short script. It's hard to dig through 1000 lines of script to come to the 10 lines where the problem shows and make sure none of the lines above cause…

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We talk about what is new in the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 13.2. We talk about merging documents with DynaPDF including PDF documents and various image files. Digital Document Super Glue in FileMaker What’s New in the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in - 13.2 Release The FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in Spotlight: OCR The FileMaker Monkeybread Plug-in Spotlight: …

To round out our series on installing FileMaker 2023 Servers, for this stream Richard and Jacob show a from-scratch FileMaker Server 2023 setup and installation on MacOS Monterey in AWS! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Yesterday was Windows, today is Linux 2023. If you need to know how to install a FileMaker 2023 Linux server from scratch, Richard and Jacob are here to show you how to do it. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Watch Richard Carlton and Jacob Taylor demonstrate a "from-scratch" FileMaker Server 2023 setup and installation on a Windows Server 2022 on AWS! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Recently we got a request to merge documents of several types. Basically PDF files and images. Clients want to merge report from FileMaker with attachments like image files of repaired items and additional certificates as PDF documents. The start file has a layout with six container fields for input. It could have been a portal with a sub table for the fields, but for some reason the client didn't do that. So six fields may or may not contain some content. We start with a script by checking if DynaPDF needs initialization. Either on startup or first time you use our plugin's DynaPDFfunctions, please locate where the library is and call DynaPDF.Initializ…

Recently in the FM Training Livestream, we talked about the new OnWindowTransaction trigger in FileMaker 2023 version. We looked into the Creating audit logs with the OnWindowTransaction script trigger article on the Claris Engineering blog. You may also want to check the blog article from Soliant here: Transaction Logging in FileMaker 2023. We got a few questions and thoughts and we look forward to have someone make a session about the trigger for next Claris Engage to talk about all the little details, but let me start here with a few thoughts and possible pitfalls: OnWindowTransaction trigger is defined per file, so one script for …

A new update of our add-on pack is coming out, which means more free add-ons for you to use! This stream, Calvin looks at the updates to the Left Navigation Card add-on. Stuart takes us through the Modular Search add-on. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

We are happy to see 24U automate adding MBS Plugin to the iOS apps in Xgode with a simple checkbox. If you like to make an iOS app with MBS Plugin to get a branded FileMaker Go for your company, please check this out: Let us know if you have any questions.

Complex PDF management can be achieved with the Monkeybread Plug-in. Christian Schmitz is here to discuss what the WinPDF, PDFKit, and DynaPDF functions can do for your FileMaker file. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

FileMaker Starting Point’s update was released at the beginning of this year - lets break down the new design and new features. This stream we looked at the Data Migration tool. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Digital Document management in FileMaker remains a hot topic. Richard is here to cover ways of doing it within FileMaker, and Christian Schmitz is here to discuss how the MonkeyBread Plugin can help with that. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

After you read the blog post about printing on macOS, you may wonder how to use these functions on Windows. The answer is that we have different Printer functions. On Windows we show the standard print dialog and click for you since we can't intercept it like we do on macOS. But this is usually quick enough, that you may only see the dialog for half a second. The Printer.Print function goes like this: MBS( "Printer.Print"; Printer { ; CloseDialog; Number of Copies; Paper Format; Paper Orientation; Paper Source; Pages From; Pages To; Collate Pages; What; PrintToFile } ) Over time we added quite a few parameters. First one is the name of the printer. Since the matc…

You may want to use our plugin functions to control printing in FileMaker Pro. Built-in to FileMaker is a script step, which allows you to configure printer settings with a dialog and store them in the script. But that is specific to the selected printer and may not work with a different one. For a bigger solution, you may want to have a table with details for printers, so you can pick the right printer based on what you like to print. For example use a black & white laser printer for some prints, but use a color printer for some reports and print invoices on a printer with some specific later paper in one tray for the first page. And then print other pages of the …

Did you know that FileMaker Pro or the whole computer can go to sleep while doing a longer script? On macOS there is a feature called App Nap to save energy by sleeping applications. And of course on Windows and macOS the display gets to sleep after some time and sometimes even the whole PC or Mac goes to sleep. With MBS FileMaker Plugin, you can add a script line on the start of your script and then a second line on the end of the script. The start of the script calls the ProcessActivity.beginActivity function like this: Set Variable [ $activity ; Value: MBS( "ProcessActivity.beginActivity"; "IdleSystemSleepDisabled UserInitiated"…

Let's talk about what JSON looks like, what the syntax rules are, and mostly - how FileMaker works with it currently! This recording is meant for developers who have not had much exposure to JSON, and they should walk away from the video with a better understanding of this language. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Add title Sometimes you’ll get calls from clients where they swear that the Internet is completely full! Richard is here to discuss how to manage nontechnical FileMaker users and how to deal with and troubleshoot their Network latency.Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Script Triggers allow you to specify that a script runs when a certain event occurs. Richard is here to break down the types of Script Triggers and use cases for them. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Our presenter discusses his FileMaker add-on for logging a ‘Session’ every time a user opens a FileMaker file, including logging every script that is run during their session. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Christian Schmitz returns to discuss how his Monkeybread Plug-in can expand the power of your webviewers in FileMaker, Extract text and HTML, run JavaScript directly, fill forms in your FileMaker files, and more. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Need to edit images in your FileMaker databases? The Monkeybread Plug-in can convert image formats, scale, crop, rotate, draw text, differences in pixel tracking between Windows and Mac, and more! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

For this series, Nick tackles renovating and modernizing a Viewer's file live. This allows the audience to see how tackling a customer project can be accomplished by a senior FileMaker engineer. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Moving files into and out of your FileMaker databases can get complicated. Christian Schmitz is here to discuss using his Monkeybread Plug-in to upload, download, list, delete or rename your files using FileMaker. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

For this FileMaker Server Open Q&A, we discuss Time Machine backups, hardware requirements for FM 19 and FM 2023, Azure, AWS pricing, and more. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We talk about what is new in the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 13.2. Including the plugin running on Linux on ARM with a demonstration of Trace function, DynaPDF functions for JavaScript and form fields, use of MongoDB functions, more Archive functions, WinPDF functions for rendering previews of PDF pages, AVPlayer and WMFP functions. What’s New in the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plu…

In this article we want to introduce you the new functions from the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 13.2. FileMaker 2023 As you have probably already noticed, FileMaker 2023 was launched at the end of April. We are happy to announce that we have adapted our plugin to be compatible with the new FileMaker version and you can use the functions as usual under FileMaker 20.1. With the Release 13.2 we support FileMaker 7 to the latest version 20.1. DynaPDF DynaPDF focuses in this release on the integration of JavaScript codes in the documents. Already since plugin version 6.4 we can include JavaScript actions in a PDF document. A JavaScript Action causes…

Since FileMaker 2023 we got the feature named OnWindowTransaction trigger. You may have read about it on the Claris Engineering Blog: Creating audit logs with the OnWindowTransaction script trigger. Now where do you store your AuditLogs? In the same table, the same database, on the same server? Maybe better take advantage from the fact, that you get JSON data passed to your trigger and pass it to MongoDB. Since MongoDB stores JSON very efficiently, you could just store all your audit data there. Whether you store them all on one MongoDB server (cluster) or have each FileMaker server from a client have their own MongoDB server, depends on how …

For our Thursday stream on FileMaker 2023, we show off two demos. In particular, we focus on Claris Connect and it’s corresponding scripts, and the new Perform Call Back on Server. Check out the future live stream schedule at: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Thank you to Doug Wallis & Connor Brock for their fantastic presentation on FileMaker Server 2023 on our livestream! We talked Persistent Cache, Ubuntu 22.04 Long Term Support, Server-Side Java Garbage Collection and more! Check out the future live stream schedule at: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com