Russ Catanach is Marketing Director at Beezwax, as well as host of the podcast DIY For Business. He’s sharing his insights, especially from a business perspective, on being a longtime Claris FileMaker user and developer.
Harnessing momentum is a crucial factor in business success. You can fuel innovation, enhance efficiency, and foster growth by leveraging past achievements and embracing swift progress.
Continue reading “Harnessing Business Momentum with Claris® FileMaker®”FileMaker® developers and users now have a clearer picture of their platform’s future thanks to Claris’s unified and simplified platform strategy. This latest news, announced August 29, rolls back the idea of a dual-platform strategy announced a year ago, and highlights the continued support for FileMaker as central to ongoing Claris® product plans.
Continue reading “Claris Product Roadmap 2023 – Streamlining FileMaker Solutions”In this blog post, we will explore a solution for optimising a FileMaker app that handles large amounts of data. We will address the challenges of data storage, file corruption, and performance degradation when dealing with historical data.
By leveraging cloud storage and serverless computing, we can offload and query this data efficiently, ensuring better performance and scalability.
Continue reading “Handling Historical Data with FileMaker and AWS Athena, S3 & Serverless”Fabio Bosisio from Beezwax demonstrates handling historical data in a Claris® FileMaker® solution, utilizing a combination of AWS services including AWS Serverless, AWS S3, and Amazon Athena’s Interactive SQL. Use cases include archiving, data mining, and reporting.
Continue reading “FM-DiSC: Handling Historical Data with FileMaker, AWS Athena, S3, Serverless”You’re invited to explore this demystify(FM-JS) blog post and download this demo file – as you embark on expanding your Claris® FileMaker® solutions into the vast and captivating realm of JavaScript.
Continue reading “demystify FileMaker and JavaScript [FM-JS]”This week we’re in Berlin… one of the stops on the Road to Claris Engage 2024 …gathering with the developer community, and highlighting innovation for the Claris FileMaker platform development. As conference speakers at dotfmp Berlin (June 1-3), Christos Savva, Fabio Bosisio and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present three sessions:
Claris FileMaker 2023 puts powerful, native audit logging within reach of developers, with a greatly reduced code footprint compared to existing approaches. In this blog post we introduce the OnWindowTransaction script trigger, leveraging it along with native FileMaker script transactions to create an audit log that is efficient, scalable, flexible, performant, and convenient to implement.
FileMaker 2023 introduces Perform Script on Server with Callback, a new asynchronous method to execute scripts with FileMaker Server. Now we have a way for FileMaker Server to execute another script, a “Callback” script, when one script is done processing via Perform Script on Server. It’s like calling your virtual assistant and instead of waiting on the phone for 5 minutes for info, they basically call you back when they are ready with an answer.
The end result is improved performance, better management of complex script workflow, enhanced user experience, and new possibilities for handling integration with APIs, email and services like Claris Connect.
Continue reading “FileMaker 2023 Perform Script on Server with Callback – Episode IV: Call Ya Later”
Problem Reports Dashboard
Track your progress while reducing problem code, and reducing technical debt.
Script Monitor
Create a visual and interactive representation of your script interactions, where you can monitor them and stay aware of their activities.
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Locate InspectorPro 7 data with logical precision, including constrained and unconstrained finds within your solution analysis.
Security Perspective
Identify the privileges and security levels assigned to various user roles for each script.
Claris FileMaker has built-in methods to send email in HTML format, using SMTP protocols. I’ll cover what this means, how to use this functionality, and use FileMaker to send basic HTML email.
Continue reading “Native HTML Email in Claris® FileMaker®”Let’s talk about building web UIs, JavaScript functions and new integrations for Claris FileMaker and Claris Pro. Learn how you can manage various stages of the web integration process with the open source bzBond.
Continue reading “End to End Web Integration for Claris® Platforms”Let’s talk about building web UIs and JavaScript functions using Claris FileMaker.
Continue reading “Web UI and JavaScript with Claris® FileMaker®”Script transactions in Claris FileMaker are finally here, but wait! Haven’t we done “transactions” in FileMaker for a long time? Yes and Yes. But script transactions are different and the main advantages, that I see, are the possibilities of simplifying code and improving solution performance. I’ll elaborate on these in this post. And, of course, there is also the inherent benefit of doing things transactionally … all or nothing is the law of the data.
Continue reading “The New Horizon: Script Transactions in Claris® FileMaker®”You may have read on Claris’s blog that “Developers are excited to use Claris FileMaker 19.6!” As Vince Menanno from Beezwax said in an interview for that blog post:
“This FileMaker release is significant. There’s a possibility to make solutions run faster if you’re leveraging transactions, and for code to be more concise.”
– Vincenzo Menanno, Beezwax
So, let’s talk about Claris® FileMaker® and script transactions in FileMaker 19.6!
Continue reading “Transacting Transactions in Claris FileMaker”Let’s talk about Claris® FileMaker® and data visualization with FileMaker 19 web viewer, and developing with open source tools!
Continue reading “Data Visualization in FileMaker Web Viewer”I often like to measure performance, because I am curious if some small change can lead to subtle, or maybe not so subtle, improvements. For the longest time my Swiss Army knife for measuring Claris® FileMaker® performance has been:
Get ( CurrentTimeUTCMilliseconds )
Let’s talk about Claris® FileMaker® and script transactions in FileMaker 19.6!
Continue reading “DIGFM December 2022 – Script Transactions in Claris FileMaker”This week, Nov 13-15, we’re in Malmö, at EngageU. It’s the biggest Claris / FileMaker Developer community event worldwide in 2022. In fact, EngageU promises to be the largest in-person Claris Community event in Europe, ever!
Continue reading “Beezwax Sponsors EngageU: The Biggest Claris® FileMaker® Developer Conference”Have you ever opened an existing solution, took one look at the source code – and your eyes just glazed over – as if you were attempting to decipher the Matrix?
You’ve entered the world of DX, or “Developer Experience”.
Just as User Experience (UX) refers to the experience of users, Developer Experience (DX) focuses on the experience that Developers have within the code of your system. This applies whether that’s code you inherited, code you passed on to someone, or code you originally wrote — all situations which affect a person I would call ‘Developer Next’. This could certainly be your-good-self, in six months time.
Continue reading “Design Think Your Code”This week we’re in Italy… formazione, condivisione e ancora divertimento [training, sharing and more fun] …with the focus on innovations in Claris® FileMaker platform development. As realtori [conference speakers] at Rome FileMaker Week (October 6-8), Vince Menanno and Fabio Bosisio from Beezwax present three sessions:
