NFC Writing

[Greg Hains]

Hi,

I am aware of a number of free tools available from the App Store that allow users to write NFC tags, however, Filemaker Go does not support this yet - as far as I can tell.  Does anybody know if this is on Claris' roadmap to utilise this native iPhone functionality? 

Further to this, as iPads and iPods (again as far as I can tell) don't have NFC capability, does anybody know of a third party device - whether it be connected physically or via Bluetooth for example) that would allow these devices to read NFC? Physical would include a cable or the likes of a pistol-grip mount for example.
I would have thought that such functionality would be useful for inventory and similar tasks.

Your thoughts please.
Thanks,
Greg

[Ocean West]

Yes it was mentioned that it is on the roadmap to enable NFC writing.  I could imagine that it would be nice to walk up to a tag and read it after you got the data write back to it who / when  took the last read or have the tag keep a list of the last 5 reads. 

 

[Greg Hains]

Hi Ocean,

Thanks for getting back to me. Agreed - SO many useful applications. Apple and Claris have both got some great tools available, and with iBeacon having been around for like 6 or 7 years now, I am surprised it's not here.   Well, I hope it's not to far away.

Cheers,
Greg