Category: FileMaker 15

FileMaker & Tableau | Building Dashboards with Interactivity

by Vincenzo Menanno
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Community, Data Analytics, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, InspectorPro, Tableau, Tableau FM

If you’ve been working with FileMaker, then I don’t have to sell you on the fact that it’s a great solution to help you manage your data. Whether you’re an in-house developer, a consultant, or just starting to explore what is possible with this powerful platform, you will at some point come across the need to build in some kind of dashboard. Maybe your group needs to see sales trends for the last year or perhaps you have a system that tracks projects and want to see the daily average of tasks completed. In either case, dashboards are a great way to synthesize large amounts of information and provide you with insight in a simple and informative visual design.

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InspectorPro 6

by Vincenzo Menanno
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, InspectorPro, News, Performance, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

InspectorPro 6

Highlighting insight, performance and collaboration

Wow! InspectorPro 6 is finally here. Can’t even believe it. It was such a massive undertaking. Lots of great new things and many improvements. Really proud of this release. In the immortal words of the late Steve Jobs… “This is our best version ever”.

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Export Just What You Need in FileMaker

by Vincenzo Menanno
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, Reporting, Techniques

The Lesson of Context

One of the first lessons I learned with FileMaker is that of context! Layouts, reports, calculations, scripts, and so on all act from the perspective of a single Table Occurrence (TO) — the “context” — pulling in data from related tables as needed.

Generally, the record set being acted on is the set of records in that context table occurrence or a found subset thereof. There are a few exceptions to this, however, and today we’re going to explore one of those.

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Fun with FileMaker Button Bars, Part 2: Expert Panel

by Mark Scott
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, Front-end Design, Front-end Development, Techniques, UX

Fun with Button Bars, Part 2: Expert Panel

Have you ever had a FileMaker design conundrum for which you wished you could convene an Expert Panel to help guide you? If you’re thinking “panel of experts,” I can’t help you, but if you’re looking for a more flexible and visually engaging alternative to FileMaker Tab Panels, this combination of a slide-panel control and a button bar just might be your “Expert Panel.”

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What’s this "Sign in to FileMaker Server" dialog?

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Server

If you’ve installed the FileMaker Pro client using a “For Teams” license, or as part of your FileMaker Cloud server usage, you may see a new dialog in FileMaker Pro.

In version 15, FileMaker has introduced a a new user-based licensing model. With FileMaker for Teams and FileMaker Cloud, a license allows use of Server and Client software based on the number of subscribed users.

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Step-by-step for FileMaker Cloud

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker 16, FileMaker Cloud, Server Administration

Although setting up your AWS account and creating a new FileMaker Cloud instance is a fairly easy process, it does have dozens of steps, and a few places where you could easily take a wrong turn. On this post we’ll go through each step in the configuration of your Amazon AWS account and requesting your first server.
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FileMaker Cloud Live – SF Bay Area

by Jay Gonzales
Posted in All, Business, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker Cloud, Mobile Development, News

Join us in person, November 7th…

…for a live, hands-on presentation of FileMaker Cloud. You’ll walk through the setup of a free trial with our guidance. Free credits for AWS will be provided, courtesy of FileMaker, Inc. Presented by Beezwax, hosted at 42 USA’s facility in Fremont.

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FileMaker Collaboration, Performance & Insight with InspectorPro

by Jay Gonzales
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, InspectorPro, Performance, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

 

FileMaker Meetups: Seattle, Portland, Santa Clara & LA

Beezwax’s Vincenzo Menanno is hitting the road this week to visit our FileMaker colleagues across the West Coast, talking about “FileMaker Collaboration, Performance and Insight with InspectorPro”. Vince will be presenting our latest research, development and product offerings to FileMaker Developer Meetups in Seattle, Portland, Santa Clara and Los Angeles.

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Version 0.84 of bBox for FileMaker Now Available

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, bBox, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker Server, Integration, Python, Tools & Add-ons

Optimized for FileMaker 15, the new version of bBox includes 160 examples

We are pleased to release another update to bBox, v0.84 of our free utility plug-in to extend FileMaker solutions to other programs, code libraries, and OS X functions including Python, Ruby, AppleScript, Perl, Bash/sh, XPath, and SQLite.

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Freedom to Experiment – FileMaker 15’s Script Undo/Redo

by Darren Burgess
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, Techniques

Introduction

FileMaker 15 introduces a major enhancement for the Script Workspace that is a real boon for developers: editing Undo and Redo. This functionality continues the efforts at making the Script Workspace more like a “text editor”. It’s a stress-reducing development enhancement that I think will improve our ability as FileMaker Developers to write scripts.

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SSL Certificates with FileMaker

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker Server, Security, Server Administration, Techniques

Intro: SSL Basics

SSL certificates are a very common way to secure client/server network connections, and the FileMaker platform has made use of them for many years. Starting with version 15 however, FileMaker introduced a number of security changes, in handling SSL and certificates, on both the server and the clients. But where do they come into play, and how might this affect your deployments?

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Performance Optimizations Make Compelling Case for FileMaker 15 Upgrade

by Mark Scott
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker Server, Performance, Techniques

Small Gains: Big Impact

In the transit-planning universe, planners and economists often get excited about 5 minutes shaved off of a 30-minute bus ride. The individual rider might shrug at a mere 50 minutes saved per week, but the planners and economists multiply that 50 minutes by the number of people who ride that route during a typical week and see something much bigger.

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iBeacons – Improve the Ranging Experience

by Perren Smith
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, Techniques

FileMaker gave us the ability to integrate iBeacon technology with the release of FileMaker 15 last month. This is a great way to enhance existing apps with microlocation features as well as build entirely new apps to solve problems we couldn’t solve before.

Some potential app ideas that have been floating around in my head include:

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Speeding FileMaker Performance with Truncate Table

by Jud Wolfskill
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker Server, Performance, Techniques, Testing

Managing Data You Use and Throw Out

We develop FileMaker applications because we want a place to store information for the long term. We track events, tasks, contacts, finances—FileMaker can track almost anything. To update information, the application might ingest a spreadsheet.

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Enable WebKit debugger in FileMaker Web Viewer

by Simon Brown
Posted in FileMaker 14, FileMaker 15, FileMaker 16, JavaScript, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

If you are having difficulty getting your HTML, CSS, or JavaScript to render in a FileMaker Web Viewer, you may have a struggle ahead of you trying to find the problem, and no good way to debug it. In comparison, most web browsers have debug facilities that can help developers find problems in their code.

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