TL;DR Layout Calculations allow for calculations in text objects, but this feature has a few nuances. The Support Group has been using FileMaker to provide solutions for clients for almost forty years, and for more than half of those years, we’ve been advocating for the layout calculations feature. So, we are very excited about its […]
There are many practical applications for ChatGPT with a low-code development tool like FileMaker. We’ve explored a chatbot, image generator, and audio transcription ChatGPT integration with FileMaker. We’ve also shared an example of using ChatGPT to summarize our notes. We want to explore how integrating FileMaker and ChatGPT via Claris Connect works. Though not necessarily ideal, we’ll use an […]
The FileMaker Send Mail script step is a valuable function for developers, but in recent years has become unreliable. Many conventional email service providers have gradually made using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) relays more complicated, primarily due to security concerns. Here at The Support Group, we’ve been transitioning clients to Gmail or Azure Application […]
FileMaker 2023 includes several useful new features, like Perform Script On Server with Callback. Another noteworthy feature we want to explore is a new script trigger, OnWindowTransaction. We can find this script trigger within the list of script triggers that appear within the File Options selection of the active FileMaker file. Where this script trigger appears […]
Weihao Ding: Great article. Thanks for putting this together. To avoid an infinite loop when creating a record in the auditLog table…
Don Clark: The new trigger is fired on a Commit, so just exiting a script will not prevent record changes from being…
Claris has departed from the tradition of sequentially numbering its product releases. They decided to use the year of the release in the name of their latest release – FileMaker 2023. Yet, a word to the wise, while the name of the software is FileMaker 2023, the version number internally to the software is FileMaker […]
Welcome back to the third and final part of our FileMaker project management blog series. We reviewed the various types of project management solutions and established a basic set of requirements and the beginnings of an ERD for the system in part one. Then we brainstormed the workflow for our system and used a few whiteboards to make […]
As a reminder, we’re working on project tracking software that we can build using the FileMaker platform. Our FileMaker Project Management Solution blog post discussed some fundamental functionality many off-the-shelf project management applications offer and their shortcomings for users with unique workflows. By way of an example, we’ve established that we are a graphic design firm hired by […]
Over the years, we’ve worked on various FileMaker project management solutions of different shapes and sizes. Yet, building a project management application seems strange, considering how many off-the-shelf project management applications are currently available – Basecamp, Jira, Trello, and monday.com, to name a few. Of course, each of these programs has its strengths, but the […]
The ChatGPT wave of innovation continues to roll along. OpenAI has released a new version of ChatGPT, version 4.0. The latest version features a host of back-end improvements and several key front-line upgrades, including real-time multi-lingual support, improved intuitive contextual understanding, and an adjustable personality slider that allows users to adjust the tone and communication […]
Dan: When I enter a chat request for the "top 10 banks in the US" I get an Error "{ "error":{…
Don Clark: Hi Dan, You will need to contact ChatGPT to increase your quota. FileMaker can only return the error sent from…
One remarkable thing about working in a supportive and dynamic collective like the FileMaker developer community is that we can share our experiences and techniques. With Claris FileMaker, there are often many solutions to any given problem, and over time our community has come up with some innovative and creative ways to use FileMaker. Unfortunately, […]
Dominick Capobianco: Very nice - I LOVE all 3 tips. The loop one is definitely cool and I love the box with…
Lin in Austin: I really like the Sorting Columns trick. At first I thought that it would not work for me because I…
As we discussed in our previous blog post, FileMaker has released a new feature set involving transactions. The new scripts allow us to send the changes we make to a record to the server in aggregate. So, we can batch all our changes together in one transaction and send that to the server. If you read […]
ChatGPT has dominated the news cycle recently, with articles appearing in just about every media outlet. For those who haven’t heard about it, ChatGPT is a chatbot driven by artificial intelligence (AI) software. OpenAI developed the service and released a beta version of it at the end of 2022. It can generate a chat – […]
Claris released a new version of FileMaker, and it’s pretty exciting. Of course, the usual list of bug fixes and minor enhancements to the platform accompanied the update. Nonetheless, there’s at least one outstanding new feature: Filemaker Transactions. In the database world, a transaction is any operation on an entity. In FileMaker world, it represents […]
ChatGPT is dominating online and offline conversations these days. ChatGPT is a chatbot created by a company called OpenAI. But saying it is a chatbot is like saying a Porsche is a car. This particular chatbot has performance and features unlike any other chatbot or AI tool available to the public. As a result, it […]
Alex Barattieri: Hi Don, thank you once again for your articles. Regarding this specific subject: it is sad that something (emailing) we…
Don Clark: That day is coming, Alex! I owned a bar and restaurant back in the day, so lots of good food…