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, […]
I’m off for some (almost) spring skiing starting today, so no more posts until next Monday. Until then… The FileMaker Let Function A good exposition on the Let Function from Geist Interactive: The Let function has a lot of uses. It allows you to: Store a value into a variable (be it a function, a […]
FileMaker External Authentication Wim Decorte presented on FileMaker External Authentication (EA, SSO, AD, OD, OAuth, LDAP) at Devcon 2017 last summer. Don’t let the the acronyms bother you. It’s actually pretty easy to set up Microsoft Azure, Amazon, or Google to handle external authentication for your FileMaker solution, and Decorte spends most of his session […]
FileMaker Data API Did you know FileMaker Server 16 can turn your FileMaker App into a web service using the new FileMaker Data API? It’s true – any application that can generate an http call and handle JSON data can now talk to your FileMaker server. And it is fast and relatively easy to set […]
Michael Rocharde on Implementing a new system the easy way: Are you considering a new system but frightened of the amount of work you will have to do before you can get started? In this short video, I discuss the two ways that you can switch over with a minimum amount of work, delay and […]
Wim Decorte of Soliant answers a common question found on forums: “How can I exclude my externally stored container content from a backup run?”… If the container data is fairly static and you can exclude it from the backup then you could save roughly 100GB on each backup run and not fill up the hard […]
WIM DECORTE brings some clarity to the use of variables throughout FileMaker: FileMaker has three types of variables for use in those different scopes: global variables: they have a double dollar sign prefix ($$myvar) and once declared they will retain their value until the FileMaker file closes (or some scripted or calculated action clears their […]
A very handy guide (with 30 Custom Functions!) from Wim Decorte to converting referenced container data to embedded container data using the new GetContainerAttribute in FileMaker 13. FileMaker 13 introduces a new function that gives us some 30 different attributes about the data we store in a container field: GetContainerAttribute(). One of those attribues is the […]
Custom Function Parameters: Value or Reference? An Example. Wim Decorte, Sr. Architect Last week I blogged here about an interesting behavior that happens when you pass a field as a parameter to a custom function. It turns out that you have access to the field’s value but also the field reference itself. How can we take advantage […]