By Andrew Koller FileMaker offers a plethora of premade tools to organize and display data, so it may come as a surprise to many new developers that there are no native functions built in for phone number formatting. Lucky for us, this is a quick and easy DIY project,...
The FileMaker and JavaScript Training Session, Redone
FileMaker DevCon 2019 is done, over, kaput. The FileMaker & JavaScript training session we led during the conference brought over 100 people together to learn the basics of JavaScript inside of FIleMaker. It was a long day of learning and stumbling and success,...
Introducing The Context Podcast
Introducing the Context Podcast: talking about all things Innovation in FileMaker and beyond.
FileMaker & JavaScript: Extracting FM Web Viewer Bridge Code
At FileMaker DevCon 2019, I led over one hundred FileMaker developers in six hours of learning and working with JavaScript. It was a good day. We learned a lot. We made lots of mistakes. We fixed those mistakes. We felt pangs of frustration with the web viewer object....
Geist Interactive Wins Two Awards at The Last FileMaker DevCon
Geist Interactive Team wins two FBA Excellence Awards at the FileMaker 2019 DevCon
Launch of fmEZcharts, A Chart & Dashboard Creation Tool
Proof and Northeast Database Solutions are excited to announce the launch of the first official community edition version of fmEZcharts! fmEZcharts is a chart and dashboard tool for Claris FileMaker that allows for the quick and easy creation of JavaScript or HTML...
Otto App Store – Version 2.1.7
Otto 2.1.5 includes an App Store. You can instantly install 3rd Party applications on your Otto powered FileMaker Server with a single click, making it super easy to demo interesting applications.
DevCon Sale – 20% to 30% off on all Products
Geist Interactive’s DevCon 2019 Sale is back and better than ever. Get 20% off products in our store. If your order total is $3000 or more you’ll get an additional 10% off. That adds up to 30% off. Implementation Packages are 10% off. The discount will be automatically applied when you check out.
Custom Application Networks and Innovation
The FileMaker Workplace Innovation Platform is the perfect tool to build all or parts of the Custom Application Network that every business has.
JavaScript at FileMaker DevCon 2019
FileMaker DevCon 2019 training session on JavaScript will dive deep. If you’re attending or considering the training, read this and get yourself ready.
WidgetStudio 2.0: Create, Customize, and Deploy Even Better
WidgetStudio, the best tool out there to create and customize and deploy FileMaker web viewer widgets, is only a few months old. Yet its creator, Carson Lind of Eagle Optimizations, has added many new features to the dev tool. His goal was to make it easier to create...
Otto 2.0 – Offsite Backups to S3 – FileMaker 18
Today our FileMaker DevOps tool , Otto, gets a big upgrade; automated offsite backups to any S3 compatible storage service.
FileMaker Transactions: Editing records
The transactional method of working with records has one goal: to ensure all changes to records (additions, changes, or deletions) are done at once or not at all. We've talked about this before. The transactional method prevents some records in a discrete set (such as...