FileMaker Pro 13

I have a script called "generate 100 records" in a FM 13 table called qrgen that is supposed to run another script called "new record" which creates a new record then generates a QR code using the Google API. The script is supposed to run for 100 iterations but it doesn't stop at 100. I found this FM 12 example which I would assume should work in FM 13 (the first example): https://fmhelp.filemaker.com/help/12/fmp/en/html/create_script.13.32.html Here's my script: Loop perform script ["new record"] set field [qrgen::counter; qrgen::counter+1] Exit loop if[qrgen::counter>100] End loop I cannot figure out why the loop continues past …

out of touch.. working now to update or rewrite? Hello, i have this completed win7 32 bit FMPro 13 code & running if i update my FMP engine to version 19 will my app run DESKTOP STILL as is? Partly run? I know i have some code issues running windows 10 in 64 bit to debug i choose to subscribe to Cloud i am some what confused Can i run dome my app in desktop and some portions using cloud ? i have a large FMP 13 no need to put on Cloud but be nice to add cloud for some remote FM USERS options I will probably need more info where do i start migration Videos, here? TIA

I wasn't really sure where to post this. I have some legacy Mac Servers running Sierra Server (10.12.6) and FileMaker Server 13. I run Sierra on a MacBook to manage them. I'd really like to upgrade the MacBook to Catalina. My issue is, I know FileMaker Pro 13 won't run on Catalina and I know FileMaker Pro 18 won't access databases hosted on FileMaker Server 13. What I don't know is if there is an interim version for FileMaker Pro that will run on Catalina and open FileMaker 13 format dbs. Anyone know?

Hi guys, I have an older version of FMA (v13) for Mac and I would like to test it also on a Windows machine. I browsed the FileMaker site up and down but I can't find a download link anywhere except to the latest version. Does anyone know where to get older versions? Thanks,

Hi, I opened Manage Database and created a relationship in there. Then, I clicked "OK". After that, my cursor started spinning and the Manage Database failed to close (Please see that attached picture) https://ibb.co/XCjh7Zv It has been spinning for 3 hours. Is there anyone knows how to resolve this issue ? Thank you in advance, Kind Regards, Eddy

Hi everyone, hope you have had some experience with this one. I looked on the internet and tried solutions i found there to no success (I have also gotten my IT involved, who are unsure what to do). Our computers have Windows 7 on them, and it works fine (script that opens a new email in Outlook and populates with data...we then manually click the send button in that email to send). I was upgraded to Windows 10, and Outlook 2016, and have had issues immediately. The new email will pop up, and it looks like everything is fine. When I try to click send a "Server Busy" message will appear with "This action cannot be completed because the other program is busy. …

This has been a repeating issue since I started working with FM12+ I have an object that is fully within the dimensions of a tab. It appears on every tab. I can't get it to stop. I need it to be on ONE tab but no matter how small I make it, removing anchors, nothing gets it to stop appearing on every tab. Mac OSX Mavericks (but it happened on Snow Leopard too) FM Pro Advanced 13 (but it happened on 12 too)

I run FM Pro 13 and connect to a remote database. All is well, but it invariably crashes when I try to export. The database is a custom database in FM Server 13. If I were to update my cliente to FM 16, will I be able to access my remote database, or is there another way out of the crashing problem

Hi I am experiencing strange behavior in creating new records. Using FileMaker Pro 13 Advanced. When I have 1000 records in a table the "New record " button takes about 40-60 seconds to create a new record but when I have 50 records it takes very short time to perform the same task. The table I have has 122 fields and the layout some script triggers etc. The same thing happens when I open the file in FIleMaker 14 to 16. I have tried to make a new layout with only few fields on it and no script triggers and the same thing happens. Any ideas what can cause this issue? Regards, Reynir.

I use Filemaker 13 Pro. When I click on FileMaker Pro Help in my menu, the Help window momentarily appears and then almost instantly disappears. This happens on both my Mac laptops, one with OS 10.12.5 and one with 10.12.4. I used to have no problem invoking the Help screen.

Opening field picker crashes in FM 13.9 in moderately large tables (e.g., 120). Any ideas how I can resolve this issue? Compacting the file didn't help.

Sorry for this potentially simplistic question, but I have looked into several options and can't find one that works exactly. My issue: I have created a word count field that calculates the word count of a "Content" field for each record in a table ("Notes"). I am trying to figure out how to calculate the sum total of that word count value across all records in a found set. Any ideas on how to best accomplish this? I created a "WordCountTotal" field in the same table, and set it as a calculation using "Sum(WordCount)", but it only seems to give the value for the currently browsed record, and I cannot figure out how to get it to calculate the summe…

What are the different ways to update FileMaker database. I Was looking into creating a custom solution that would query and update data in a FileMaker database ? Is there any web service APIs that can be invoked from a third-party application?

Twice now, over the past few months, I've launched FileMaker Pro Advanced 13 on my mac (OS X 10.9.4 or 10.9.5) to get this error message: I can and will re-install the app, but it's a hassle. Any idea what causes this?

Hello, please can someone help me out. I am trying to install a copy of Filemaker pro 14 on my windows system, My system is already installed with Pro 13 advanced, I have tried to uninstall it prior to installing the version 14, but I can't see filemaker on my programs list for uninstalling.. Thus, I opted to Install version 14 on it ( thinking maybe its gona override version 13), but here is the error I keep getting https://www.evernote.com/shard/s675/sh/467e23d9-7385-4764-a7f8-53759cd2d161/6d60778b64bd39d2cdc4ac161968f5e9 "You cannot install or uninstall filemaker on this system.........." I have checked my system specification, and it meets with the…

Does anyone have any experience running FMPA 13 under El Capitan? Thanks, Rick.

I probably have done something strange today but I get a question mark on my icon in my dock. (see screenshot) Can someone tell me what this means, what I probably did wrong and how to fix it ? Thanks in advance.

Has anybody else have a case when a layout when viewed in FM14 appears larger than the same layout when viewed in FM13. Checked the zoom level and is set to 100% Nothing has changed that I am aware of. This is on a Windows 7 box

This will affect many people who use Webdings, Wingdings for low-impact graphics and bar charts, as well as rectangles. Graphical fonts will no longer render on Mac. http://forums.filemaker.com/posts/0f6fabd1e1 And I confess it makes no sense ... I have a new Mac with Maverick and I have Webdings no problem. Oh well, what will be will be and we will just have to fix everything on this end like we always do.

I have been a long term user of FileMaker Pro, since v3. I have recently introduced it to the accounting manager of the small company where I work. Recently one of our minor servers was attacked by a ransomware virus--CryptoWall. It started with the Excel files on the drive. Now it is hitting PDF files. I have moved my FileMaker files to my C-drive. My question is has anyone known FileMaker files to be subject to this. We have Sophos on the servers, and the accounting PCs have McAfee.

I just compiled my FM app in OSX :   Model Name:   iMac  Model Identifier:   iMac13,2  Processor Name:   Intel Core i7  Processor Speed:   3.4 GHz  Number of Processors:   1  Total Number of Cores:   4  L2 Cache (per Core):   256 KB  L3 Cache:   8 MB  Memory:   32 GB   After running a report, my custom menu turned totally grayed out.  I could not make any selection on any menu. So, I did a 'force quit' and restarted.  This time, everything worked as expected; and has consistently since that time. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Thanks  Â

I keep using my databases but after some time without my doing anything but using the database---- there becomes some items which grey out and are not useable. Like New Record ,, Manage scripts,New Database. I am not sure why this is happening. Can someone put some light on this for me. Thanks

I have 20 computers set to shut down automatically each evening and reboot each morning. it isn't practical to manually do this 365 days a year. Th problem I'm running into is that when FM is running, it blocks this shut down process and puts the apple computer into a weird state where it is trying to shut down but fails. Is there a setting in FM or in FM server or in apple Os X Yosemite that will make FM quit first? Is there an apple script that any one knows that can be run on a timer to shut down FM Pro before the shut down sequence starts?

For some reason the hot key command for entering Layout mode (⌘L ), while available when I launch Filemaker, seems to disappear and is no longer available after a period of time. I can still enter Layout mode by accusing it under the View menu. Its just that the ⌘L is no longer on the menu. When working with this file on other computers this doesn't happen, which makes me think its not an issue with the file. Also, there are no custom menus at play. If I quit Filemaker and reopen it the ⌘L is functional for a period of time and then disappears. I can't seem to find a cause for it disappearing. I just suddenly notice that I can't access Layout mode via the hot ke…

Sometimes (this is the important part, because it seems like 80% of the time it works fine) Filemaker will prevent me from browsing directly to Layouts via the Layout dropdown available through the Toolbar interface.  I know there are no security settings preventing me from accessing these layouts as I've deliberately set them up to be navigable via this menu, however sometimes the folders and layouts will be greyed out.  This isn't a show stopping issue, more of a rather annoyance really, but has anybody seen similar behavior in Filemaker 13 and know what the problem is?   Edit: And now after restarting Filemaker it works...

I have a script that creates a PDF and then proceeds to append 4 other sections of a report to that PDF. It works great for the most part, but my client is crashing with some records. I can repeat the crashes they are experiencing. But never when I step through it with the Script Debugger! So purely at a hunch level I'm wondering if slowing the script down might resolve the problem. I'm not sure of the best way to do that. Thoughts, anyone? In the spirit of disclosure: the document includes SVG header and footer and some pages have 4 or 5 other graphics.

Hello! Does anyone have a list of upper level managers' contact information at FileMaker Inc? Specifically, a list of names and numbers of managerial folks who can make things happen? Thanks in advance!

Yesterday I installed the latest FMPA on my MBP and restarted my machine. Great! No Allow Incoming CConnections nonsense. Then today I upgraded FMPA on my desktop machine running OS X 10.7.5 and restarted. The first thing that happened when I launched the program was the dreaded "Allow incoming . . . ." message. My apologies to MikeDR for doubting his findings!

I excitedly saw that 13.0v5 was just released, and it said that they were fixing the annoying "allow/deny incoming network connections" bug. I dutifully upgraded. Not only did the bug persist (!), but it introduced a new one -- for the database I access, I have the password saved to keychain, but it started asking me all the time to enter the password, and whether I wanted to save it to keychain. Great. But, I was able to fix both issues (yay!). For the incoming network connections issue. First, quit FM. Second, go to the Firewall settings on your Mac, and edit the options. Remove FM's entry. Third, go to Terminal, and enter this command: sudo codes…

Hi, I have noticed that FM13 is backward compatible. I designed a test data base with FM13 and was able to open it in FM12. Is this deliberately built in because some clients may still be on FM12 but the designer is on FM13 Reason for this weird question is that I am testing out a 30-day free trial version of FM13. Given that according to the rumor mill, FM14 is due out soon, I don't want to pay for the costly upgrade to FM13. I had hoped to be able to sign up for the monthly $9 subscription but a call to the FM sales rep clarified that the subscription is only available for those who buy multi license not lowly indivs like myself. I made the mistake of buyin…

I need to make a decision. When FileMaker 13 introduced Web Direct I had two thoughts: 1) Ah, this is FieMaker losing market share and clearly web-based everything's are taking over but also... 2) Nice... this means I can actually keep using FileMaker as many clients really do want a web front end For a fairly large CRM that I've developed over many years, Filemaker was brilliant - and still is. But with web technologies (HTML5, etc) becoming pretty awesome, and with UI frameworks that make responsive design a breeze... there's not a lot a web browser can't do. Why should I keep using FileMaker? My server is hosted in the US, so for Austral…

I haven't seen this discussed here (please correct me if I'm wrong). Since the latest update to FMP, every time myself or my assistant starts FMP, it asks if we want to accept incoming network connections, even though the Mac firewall is properly set to let FMP do this (on both Mavericks and Yosemite). That is, the normal workflow is it asks *once*, but it asks *always*. It appears that this is a known issue, but I'm wondering if anyone here has come up with a good workaround. I've tried re-signing the digital signature for FMP to no avail, for instance. http://forums.filemaker.com/posts/681ddd5845 Again, a shot in the dark . . . .

Hi, I'm new here, my first post actually. I'm a pretty experienced developer and know my way around a variety of languages (VBA, HTML, CSS, etc.) and databases (SQL, Access, etc.). Have been working with FileMaker in my spare time for a number of weeks now, and I have to say, if I had to choose between MS Access and FileMake, I'd pick FM without a second thought. I'm finding it SO much easier to work with, once you get your head around a few key concepts. So my question, and reason for banging head on wall. I have a small file for tracking a balance book. Has fields like EventDate, Client, Amount, Net, etc. My housemate has a massage business and needs to easi…

I would appreciate advice on Best Practice for generating a Bill Of Materials for Products that include sub-assemblies. I have a Products Table, with records for products such as: - Cake - Buns - Trifle I have a Product Items Table with the ingredients of each product. For example, the Product 'Cake' could have: - Butter - Sugar - Eggs ...etc. The solution accepts a Sales Forecast for the range of Products and generates the appropriate MRP (Materials Requirement Plan) down to Ingredient level. That all works perfectly. The next stage that I am asking for advice on is that an 'Ingredient' could be 'Caramelised Chestnuts'. That Ingredient is a sub-assemb…

Hi,  I am using Filemaker Pro 13 Advanced and when I put a custom URL in Webviewer, the pages don't load. The little "time" bar at the bottom of the page advances very slowly and then gets stuck.  Here's an example of a URL I want to load: http://www.Omron247.com  Here's what I have in the Webview box:  "LinkedIn Database MASTER 2015::url"  The problem occurs whether I have " " marks around "LinkedIn Database MASTER 2015::url" or not.  Not sure what the problem could be. I've used many times in earlier versions of FMPRO and never had this problem.  Thanks,  David