Regular FileMaker Script Triggers Regular FileMaker script triggers fire at times that the FileMaker engine defines. You are probably familiar with these, but if you aren't I would recommend reading up them, here and here. In...
I am so excited to announce that Barcode Creator won FBA Commercial Product of the Year at the 2014 FileMaker Developers Conference. This is a huge honor, and we couldn't be more proud. In fact, we have decided to keep DevCon going for one more week. Everybody come...
GoZync 5 was just released, YAY!. We made some changes to how filtering works to take advantage of some new features that came with FileMaker 13. In this video we cover how filtering works when you are syncing FileMaker with GoZync 5 Why Filters...
I needed to figure out what method and headers Insert from URL sent when making requests. Insert from URL supports a number of different protocols, now. The two that I was interested in were "http" and "httppost". Here is what I found. Why? I am interested in...
I have had a couple of customers of our Barcode Creator product ask me about printing Barcodes. I referred them to FileMaker's help on creating label layouts. But there are a couple of oddities about the FileMaker 13 label wizard so I thought I...
FileMaker 13 shipped with a new function called GetContainerAttribute(). The function is ostensibly about container fields and their contents. It was designed to let you query the metadata that is often stored along with images; things like...
FileMaker Drawing Tool We are very excited to release GoDraw v2.0 today. GoDraw is a full featured drawing editor that you can easily add to your FileMaker applications. You can give your users the ability to draw on or annotate images, photos, and diagrams. Or you...
Whenever you move FileMaker code from one file to another, you need to do things in the right order. If you follow this checklist everything will work correctly when it is in the new file. Some of this stuff you can copy and paste or import. The rest you will have to...
My top feature request for FileMaker 14 is Multiple Parameters for Scripts. It's a critical part of building complex apps. It's not yet satisfactorily solved. Compared to other technical issues that FileMaker has taken on like WebDirect, it's easy. Yet it's positive...
As I mentioned earlier this week, FileMaker released FMP 13.0v2 with a fix for the FMP URL protocol. This fix let us get rid having to self host GoSign if you wanted to use it locally, without a server. Today we released a new version of GoSign to accommodate those...