Claris FileMaker is a fantastic tool for solving business problems. With the tool, we can create apps that both streamline and automate difficult and tedious tasks, thereby giving us time to explore other ways to expand our business and better serve our customers. Behind every effective FileMaker app is an equally powerful server. The on-premise […]
Use Claris Connect to Build Powerful Work Flows What is Claris Connect? I think of it as IFTTT (IF This, Then That), but easier to use and way more customizable. Claris Connect is a standalone product from Claris, Inc (formerly FileMaker, Inc) that makes it much easier make various online applications play together, such as […]
Claris FileMaker is a powerful tool for creating automated workflows; workflows that not only make our workplaces productive but also ensure accuracy and consistency within our business processes. When you think about it, each of our scripted workflows encapsulates a vital piece of our organization’s tribal knowledge. FileMaker applications are typically created, extended and maintained […]
An intriguing post by John Renfrew, well worth a read for those interesting in growth and in Cognitive Dissonance: The Johari window is a technique created by created by psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in 1955, and is a starting point to look at the relationship between ourselves and others. In our world of […]
One of the many features that make FileMaker such a powerful and flexible tool is the Script Workspace. Scripts make it possible for you to manipulate and execute various actions on the data within your application. They help to maintain efficiency, consistency and accuracy by automating manual workflows. Keep in mind, FileMaker 18 added 11 more file-based […]
How Connecting FileMaker and Zoom API Worked Out In January, I posted about connecting FileMaker and Zoom – a fairly detailed view of the process necessary in a fairly long post. What I didn’t do was show you how it all works with in the (almost) final product for my client. The app is server […]
It might sound trivial, but naming conventions are significant factors when you’re developing business applications. A systematic way of naming files, tables, fields, etc. provides a high level of organization, consistency and efficiency to both app developers and users. A good naming convention also allows an app to be easily adaptable, scalable and transferable throughout […]
The journey to downloading a link from Zoom using Zoom API’s On a new project recently, I needed to capture information from Zoom phones using their API’s. The use case was simple: A client wants to use the Zoom Phone service to record calls and Zoom sessions, and be able to easily download and review […]
Advantages and Disadvantages to OAuth2 For a new project, I needed to use OAuth2 to access data from the Zoom API, both for accessing and viewing/listening to Zoom sessions. Starting a Zoom session from FileMaker and storing the links to the session recordings was the main goal. I looked forward to learning more about OAuth2, […]
FileMakerHacks Turns Nine Kevin Frank celebrates nine years of blogging about very technical FileMaker issues, and put together a Table of Contents of every single one of his – and his guest posters – blog posts during that time. Bookmark that page – every FileMaker Developer will find indispensable advice that will solve some thorny problem […]
We came across this very cool article in Wired magazine recently. It highlights The 5 Best Toys of All Time, and we couldn’t agree with Jonathan Liu more. This article serves a reminder that simplicity that inspires creativity is the best gift of all. As our year winds down, it’s good to reflect on some of […]
If you’re a user of a spreadsheet or any other program that displays information in tabular format, you’re probably familiar with a quick sort technique. You can usually click a column header and the data within the column will automatically sort in some way. You can sort of (pun intended) do this within a table […]
How talking money with your clients will make you money Susan Fennema is the Chaos Eradicating Officer (CEO) of Beyond the Chaos, LLC, a project management and operations consultant company specializing in helping FileMaker development businesses. I did a very enjoyable series of interviews with her in early 2018. Sadly, I missed her DevCon 2019 […]
Susan Fennema: Thanks for your great commentary and for sharing this with your list!
Claris continues it’s new policy of sharing information of upcoming events and news. Claris held a webinar yesterday (11/11/19) on the FileMaker Products Roadmap and shared exciting news. The video of the webinar is below. Some of the highlights are listed next– and you will want to check those out! I put these screenshots in […]
Karl Ermatinger: The script in the article has an undesirable behavior of always alternating the sort direction even if the second click…
Don Clark: Thanks, Karl, for figuring that out. Your feedback it greatly appreciated.
Karl Ermatinger: Correction above: If [ $$sf Get(ScriptParameter) or $$sd = “des” ]
Karl Ermatinger: This comment function wipes out and removes a less than and greater than symbols. The If is supposed to be…
Alex: Great tip! Thank you Don
Don Clark: Thanks, Allessandro, but the thanks goes to the Support Group = they guest post here.