Is there any to get an icon on the Mac menu bar at the top of the screen to either open a Filemaker solution or better yet, provide a list (from filemaker) directly like what you see when you select a WiFi network? 

What is the purpose of your Menu Extra? I'm not sure if there is a built in FileMaker approach apart from Custom Menues.

Tunnelblick is an open source project that has its own Menu Extra: https://github.com/Tunnelblick/Tunnelblick

With XCode installed it's quite simple; I would build a Mac OS X menubar only app that queries FileMaker XML RPC or DATA API; project table or whatever you would like to put there..

This is probably what you are looking for in objc: https://nsrover.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/creating-a-os-x-menubar-only-app/ or swift example here: http://footle.org/WeatherBar

If you start off on WeatherBar you may or may not want to change Preferences to look something like this:

Edited December 15, 20178 yr by ggt667

The purpose of the Menu Extra is to cient user a list of all active jobs. The would select a job and that would activate an FM script to direct them to the right location either in FM or on our SAN. Thanks for the links. I will have to dig in to check them out, as I have not done something like this before. I am sure I will more questions, but thanks for the head start.

 

Is  this a Mac only thing for you?

Yes only on the Mac