Category: FileMaker 19

bBox 1.05 for FileMaker Now Available

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, bBox, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FM Products, Integration, Python, Tools & Add-ons

We are pleased to announce the release of bBox version 1.05, which adds support for schema change notifications, a new Ubuntu ARM binary, and DuckDB integration.

bBox is a free utility plug-in to extend FileMaker solutions to easily use code libraries. Supporting both macOS & Ubuntu Linux, it has functions to help you work with Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, AppleScript, Bash/Zsh/sh, XPath, and SQLite. Also included is a demo file that has over 220 examples of how you can put bBox functions to work for you.

If you’re interested in Python integration with FileMaker, also check out bzPython-FM, which uses bBox.

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Use REST and cURL with FileMaker 2023’s Data API

by Beezwax Team
Posted in Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, Integration, Performance, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

FileMaker 2023 (v20) added minor functionality to the FileMaker Data API. Here, we’ll cover an overview of the new date format parameters, Save Record as PDF script step, and several bug fixes. We also want to mention another option, FileMaker’s OData features, for some of the integrations we might otherwise handle via REST, cURL, and the FileMaker Data API.

We’re providing a tutorial file for learning more and trying out various REST and cURL functionality with FileMaker’s Data API. Enjoy!

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Claris Beyond Meetup – FileMaker Diagnostics, Analysis, and Data Visualization with InspectorPro

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Beezwax’s Vincenzo (Vince) Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker developers at meetups and conferences, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”.

At the March 2024 Claris Beyond Meetup, Vince covers diagnostics, analysis and data visualization with InspectorPro for FileMaker. He shares the latest research, development best practices, and product offerings. Vince also has a number of surprises up his sleeves that he can’t wait to show. If you’re a FileMaker Developer attending, we hope to see you there!

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FileMaker Meetups Ann Arbor + Milwaukee – InspectorPro 8: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Beezwax’s Vincenzo (Vince) Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker developers at meetups and conferences, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”.

At the March 2024 shared meetups for Ann Arbor FileMaker + Milwaukee Area FileMaker Devs, Vince shares the latest research, development best practices, and product offerings. Vince has a number of surprises up his sleeves that he can’t wait to show. If you’re a FileMaker Developer attending, we hope to see you there!

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FileMaker for Research Group – InspectorPro 8: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Beezwax’s Vincenzo (Vince) Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker developers at meetups and conferences, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”.

At the March Meetup for FileMaker for Research Users Group, Vince shares the latest research, development best practices, and product offerings. Vince has a number of surprises up his sleeves that he can’t wait to show. If you’re a FileMaker Developer attending, we hope to see you there!

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FM-DiSC – InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Beezwax’s Vincenzo (Vince) Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker developers at meetups and conferences, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”.

At the March Meetup for FM-DiSC (FileMaker Developers in Southern California), Vince shares the latest research, development best practices, and product offerings. Vince has a number of surprises up his sleeves that he can’t wait to show. If you’re a FileMaker Developer attending, we hope to see you there!

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FMburgh – InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Beezwax’s Vincenzo (Vince) Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker developers at meetups and conferences, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”.

At the FMburgh (Pittsburgh / online) March Meetup, Vince shares the latest research, development best practices, and product offerings. Vince has a number of surprises up his sleeves that he can’t wait to show. If you’re a FileMaker Developer attending, we hope to see you there!

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FM-BUG – InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Beezwax’s Vincenzo (Vince) Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker developers at meetups and conferences, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”.

At the March FM BUG (FileMaker — Brighton UK User Group) meeting, Vince shares the latest research, development best practices, and product offerings. Vince has a number of surprises up his sleeves that he can’t wait to show. If you’re a FileMaker Developer attending, we hope to see you there!

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User’s Sandbox: Performance, data integrity, and UX for FileMaker

by Andrew Witschonke
Posted in All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, Performance, Software Design, Techniques

The “User’s Sandbox” (aka “Local File”) technique builds a sandbox for data editing by users, protecting data integrity and transactionality, without sacrificing usability. After refining this approach to prioritize user experience and security, at Beezwax we’ve used it for years, adapting it to build more performant, more accurate, better looking, and more functional Claris FileMaker applications.

Andrew “Red” Witschonke, Director of Engineering at Beezwax, first presented on the User’s Sandbox technique at Claris Engage 2024 — the premier event for the FileMaker development community, held at Apple’s Austin Campus and hosted by Claris, an Apple company.

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Beezwax’s Vincenzo Menanno Wins Claris Excellence Award for Lifetime Achievement

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, News, Tools & Add-ons

Recognized as a “pillar of the Claris Community”, Vince Menanno is honored for Long-time Technical Excellence, Developer Advocacy, Sharing Expertise and Passion with Customers and Developers

February, 2024 – AUSTIN, Tex. – Claris International Inc., an Apple company, named Vincenzo (Vince) Menanno of Beezwax as winner of the Claris Excellence Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award was presented during Claris Engage 2024, February 6th-8th at the Apple Austin Campus.

This award highlights Vince Menanno‘s 30+ year career as a consultant, technical innovator, developer advocate and community leader. Claris honored Vince with the Lifetime Achievement Award which “salutes a Claris Partner or community member who is a long-time pillar of the Claris Community and recognized as a leader whose voice is respected.”

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Houston FMDUT – InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Beezwax’s Vincenzo (Vince) Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker developers at meetups and conferences, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”.

At the February 2024 Houston FMDUT (FileMaker Developer, Users, Trainers) meeting, Vince shares the latest research, development best practices, and product offerings. Vince has a number of surprises up his sleeves that he can’t wait to show. If you’re a FileMaker Developer attending, we hope to see you there!

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User’s Sandbox: Opening new performance, data, and UI/UX possibilities for FileMaker — Claris Engage 2024

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, Performance, Software Design, Techniques

Andrew “Red” Witschonke from Beezwax presents at Claris Engage 2024, the premier event for the FileMaker development community, held at Apple’s Austin Campus and hosted by Claris, an Apple company.

Andrew Red Witschonke - Director of Engineering at Beezwax presenting at Claris Engage 2024 on the topic of Users Sandbox - Opening new performance data, and UI-UX possibilities on February 7 at 1030 am CST
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bzPython-FM performs Python for your FileMaker apps

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, bBox, Claris Development, Data Analytics, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Server, FM Products, Integration, Python, Tools & Add-ons

bzPython-FM easily performs Python code within FileMaker, using the bBox plugin.

There are literally thousands of Python packages out there, for AI and Machine Learning, data analysis, data science and IT automation — now at your fingertips from within FileMaker.

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EngageU 2023 – Most Inspiring Claris FileMaker Development Conference

by Vincenzo Menanno
Posted in Beezwax News, Business, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, News, Performance, Security, Tools & Add-ons

I collected some thoughts and observations from EngageU 2023, the European Claris / FileMaker Developer Conference held Nov 12-14 in Antwerp. Beezwax was proud to be a sponsor. There were plenty of technical discussions, a few described here, and even moreso, plenty of things that should make us all inspired heading toward 2024. If last year’s conference were the “Biggest Claris FileMaker Conference of 2022“, this year’s EngageU was the Most Inspiring, as well as the Biggest of 2023.

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Beezwax Sponsors EngageU Claris FileMaker Developer Conference

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, InspectorPro, News, Techniques

Vincenzo Menanno Presents “Elements for Building Great Solutions” and InspectorPro

This week, November 12-14, we’re in Antwerp, at EngageU. It’s one of the biggest Claris® / FileMaker® Developer community events worldwide this year, and Beezwax is proud to be a sponsor.

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Leveraging pandas with Python to Analyze FileMaker Data Sets

by Nat Robinson
Posted in bBox, Claris Development, Data Analytics, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Server, Integration, Python, Tableau FM, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

The pandas library for Python has become a go-to tool for many data scientists and analysts. In this blog post, we’ll examine one strategy for leveraging the highly powerful tools within pandas to enhance data analysis capabilities using the Claris FileMaker platform. We’ll do this by calling the bBox plugin and its built-in Python functions.

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Harnessing Business Momentum with Claris® FileMaker®

by Russ Catanach
Posted in All, Business, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, Management, Marketing, Organization Development

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.

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Handling Historical Data with FileMaker and AWS Athena, S3 & Serverless

by Fabio Bosisio
Posted in All, AWS, Claris Development, Data Analytics, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, Integration, Logging, Reporting, Software Design, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

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.

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FM-DiSC: Handling Historical Data with FileMaker, AWS Athena, S3, Serverless

by Beezwax Team
Posted in AWS, Claris Connect, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, Integration, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

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.

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demystify FileMaker and JavaScript [FM-JS]

by Darrin Southern
Posted in All, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, Integration, JavaScript, Techniques

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.

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