I've been working with FM for awhile, but completely new on the programming front with any other language. I have a 3rd party vendor who provides routing and distance data, much like Google API, but uses PHP or SOAP as their main protocol. The output from any query is in XML or KML.

 

Is there a simple way to connect FM 13 to this vendor or will I need to hire a developer to build the plugin?

 

Thanks,

Thomas Hatton

concentrate on the SOAP part, and see what you can do with the "insert from url" script step, it supports HTTP GET and HTTP POST, see if the 3rd party web service supports that.

You can import data from an XML response directly, using the Import Records script step and a suitable XSLT stylesheet to transform the response to Filemaker's XML grammar..

Thanks guys,

 

I've been doing some research into this and determined that it would probably be best to leave this to the professionals. I've contacted a 3rd party that can take the SDK and write a custom function into FileMaker for me.