Easy Email Notifications

[FileMaker Magazine]

by Matt Petrowsky

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One of today's fundamental ways of being notified about something is via email. Of course, we also have new services like Twitter and the wonderful SMS features via our smartphones. Yet, even those services like Twitter send out email about the status of new tweets. It all comes back to email.

So, obviously, you'll want to take advantage of using email within your FileMaker solution. The question ends up related to how far you need to go in creating an email notification system within your solution.

The answer, surprisingly, can be SUPER simple. Even, when you need to take things beyond sending one email to a few targeted addresses. You can implement email notification to many people all at once as well.

This video highlights a very easy-to-implement method of integrating email notifications into your own FileMaker database. Need to notify an admin? Need to notify a user? Need to notify a whole group of people? They're all possible in a very short amount of time.

Details: Released - 11/5/2012 / Size - 61.39 MB / Length - 23 min

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