Using cURL and FileMaker Pro Together Believe it or not, cURL and FileMaker know each other. FileMaker makes use of cURL, but developer access to the commands is limited – hopefully that will change in the next release of FileMaker. cURL (originally from “see-URL”) is pretty much the glue that holds the internet together. Or as the official […]
FileMaker Custom Functions For many new developers, custom functions pose a challenge: What are they, why do I need them, where do I find them, and how do I add them to FileMaker are just some of the questions. Another is recognizing when one is needed. And let’s not leave out the big one: How […]
Make FileMaker Go Talk to IOS Apps Chris Ippolite, President of iSolutions, Inc., presented on One-Step Integration between FileMaker Go and iOS apps using fmp: scheme. The 5 minute video directly below is a summary of the areas Ippolite covers in the session. If you are not sure you are interested in this topic, watch […]
The Simple Paste Command Matt Larson of Cimbura.com digs into the simple paste command–it turns out it’s not as simple as one might think: FileMaker’s default Paste behavior is to paste formatted text in a FileMaker text field. Additional steps, either by the user or the developer, must be taken to paste unformatted text. Text stored with custom formatting may […]
All about iBeacons: A lot has been written about iBeacons since FileMaker 15’s release, with examples and files and different ideas about how to use them. So much so, that it’s hard to find a lot of good information. So here’s my list of resources available out there now. Start with this video about iBeacons from Pulsate HQ. […]
FileMaker Button Bar Navigation menu’s have always been a challenge for FileMaker developers, mainly because of the problems posed by making the proper button active on the right screen, and making each button navigate to the right place from every layout. The goal has been to build a contextless navigation button bar–one will work automatically when you can copy and paste […]
One of the most frustrating issues when dealing with ExecuteSQL is the dreaded question mark (“?”) FileMaker returns as the result of the malformed query. Your query does not work for some reason, but you have no idea what the problem is. Daniel Wood, of Digital Fusion, stumbled upon a method to coerce a useful error […]
Matt Petrowsky put together a great video about the Perform Script on Server (PSoS) command. While there are many benefits to PSoS, this video focuses on installing plugins on either the server or a client (Mac or Windows) on startup. The plugins in his example are Base Elements from Goya and Scriptmaster from 360Works, both great […]
Benjamin Fehr of Efficient Buzz has figured out a way using Applescript to make FileMaker communicate with the Apple notification center. He’s looking for a hook to make it work with FileMaker Go on iOS. If you can help, make a comment. Benjamin shared this with me last week, and I’m hoping someone out there […]
Damian Kelly: If you can embed a URL you can call filemaker back with the fmp:// url method...
JONATHAN FLETCHER, guest posting on FileMakerHacks, has an intriguing post on sorting value lists: Have you ever had a need for a value list that displayed a generated list of years in descending order? Have you ever had a client ask for a popup of dynamic characteristics or statuses in the order they are most […]
I was browsing Briandunning.com for custom functions and found a few good ones to link: GetQueryStringValue ( keyName ; sourceUrl ): Given a full URL and name of a key, returns the given key’s value out of the entire URL. CurrentTime_Less_Hours_Minutes (Hours ; Minutes): Gets time less hours and minutes entered CurrentTime_Plus_Hours_Minutes (Hours ; Minutes): To […]
THE PATTERNCOUNT FUNCTION is often overlooked, but very useful in some situations. There are times when, as a developer, you need to find some way to uniquely identify a record (or records) where you do not have a key you can look up. Or even a full word. PatternCount helps mightily at those times: If FileMaker functions had […]
TODD GEIST posted a solution at Modular FileMaker that builds FileMaker URL’s on the fly – regular web URL’s and FMP URL’s both: url ( “http://www.geistinteractive.com” ) & urlBasicAuth ( “admin” ; “password” ) & urlPath ( “contacts” ) & urlPath ( “23345” ) & urlParam ( “max” ; “100” ) & urlParam ( “skip” ; […]
Free URL Builder at Modular FileMaker | Filemak...: […] TODD GEIST posted a solution at Modular FileMaker that builds FileMaker URL’s on the fly – regular web URL’s…
A HANDY little function for formatting mailing labels – and it removes empty lines by using the list function. No need to re-invent the wheel. FileMaker Custom Function:MailingLabel ( fname ; lname ; company ; addr1 ; addr2 ; city ; state ; pcode ).
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