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New power for your everyday tools in FileMaker 2025 – Claris Community Live

by Beezwax Team07/15/202502/11/2026

Posted in AI with FM, All, Business, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker & OData, FileMaker 2025, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, FileMaker UX Design, FM Products, Integration, News, Performance, Security

Special event featuring Vincenzo Menanno from Beezwax, with Claris product team

Watch this Claris Community Live event where Vincenzo Menanno from Beezwax will join the Claris product team to discuss the enhancements available with FileMaker 2025 (v22). Learn about streamlined app upgrades, secure server integrations, and a modernized UI, prioritizing user feedback for improved functionality, enabling powerful new features for implementing AI with FileMaker.

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Beezwax Sponsors Vienna Calling 2025 – FileMaker Developer Conference

by Beezwax Team06/03/202502/10/2026

Posted in AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, FileMaker UX Design, InspectorPro, News, Performance, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Vincenzo Menanno Presents “Till Technical Debt do us Part!”

This week, June 5-7, we’re in Austria, at Vienna Calling 2025. The Claris® FileMaker® Developer conference feature open discussions, interactive workshops and collaborative break-out sessions. Beezwax is proud to be a conference sponsor.

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Beezwax Presents at Elevate FM 2025 – Toronto FileMaker Developer Conference

by Beezwax Team05/25/202502/10/2026

Posted in AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, FileMaker UX Design, InspectorPro, News, Performance, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Vincenzo Menanno Presents “Modernizing Code – Maintaining Your Investment”

This week, May 26th, we’re at Elevate FM 2025, a brand new conference taking place in downtown Toronto, Canada. The Claris® FileMaker® Developer conference features sessions by industry experts, training workshops and interactive discussions.

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Explore using REST and cURL with FileMaker Data API

by Siroos Jafary01/31/202509/15/2025

Posted in Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, Integration, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

With FileMaker 2024 (v21), Claris unveiled powerful features and improvements aimed at enhancing data management efficiency and security. This blog post series covers the advancements in FileMaker’s Data API (FM DAPI), focusing on REST and cURL, which offer developers greater control and flexibility in their applications. 

We’re providing a tutorial file (bzTrainer-FMDAPI) to help you learn and experiment with various REST and cURL functions using FileMaker’s Data API. Enjoy exploring!

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Using OData, Syslog or DuckDB to handle FileMaker Schema Change Notifications (via Plug-in API)

by Simon Brown01/22/202509/15/2025

Posted in All, bBox, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, FM Products, Integration, Performance, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

FileMaker Server v21.1 (2024) introduced functionality for plug-ins to receive notifications of changes to database schema, layout, custom functions, or scripts. Notification messaging is passed in the form of JSON. Let’s show a few examples of these JSON payloads, and how a plug-in might use external tools (Syslog, DuckDB or OData) to handle things.

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What’s New in FileMaker Pro 21.1? Exploring AI-Powered Semantic Search, Developer Productivity Boosts, Security and More

by Russ Catanach01/14/202501/15/2025

Posted in AI with FM, All, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker & OData, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, FileMaker UX Design, FM Products, Integration, News, Performance, Security

FileMaker Pro 21.1, the newest update to Claris FileMaker 2024, introduces powerful new AI capabilities and significant quality-of-life enhancements for developers. The Beezwax team gathered to dive into these exciting updates, including Chief Innovation Officer Vincenzo Menanno, Director of Engineering Andrew “Red” Witschonke, Developer & Systems Engineer Simon Brown, and Senior Developer Fabio Bosisio. Here are the highlights from their discussion.

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Rome FileMaker® Week 2024: iOS Widgets & Local File Technique

by Beezwax Team10/09/202402/07/2025

Posted in All, Beezwax News, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, FM Products, InspectorPro, Integration, JavaScript, Local File, Performance, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

A Claris Community event with presentations from Vincenzo Menanno and Fabio Bosisio, plus Beezwax as a Sponsor

This week it’s Italy for one of our favorite annual events in the developer community… formazione, condivisione e di nuovo divertimento [training, sharing and fun yet again] …covering the past, present and future of Claris® FileMaker platform development…

For Rome FileMaker Week (October 10-11, 2024), Vince Menanno and Fabio Bosisio from Beezwax have created presentations on:

iOS widgets using Javascript and FileMaker Data API
The ‘Local File’ technique… A force to be reckoned with!
plus a sponsored session: Analyze your solution with Inspector Pro 8

Beezwax is also proud to be a sponsor once again this year, for Rome FileMaker Week 2024.

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Python with FileMaker®: Get Started with Analytics, Automation and AI + ML

by Beezwax Team10/04/202412/19/2025

Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Data Analytics, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, Integration, Machine Learning, News, Python, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Christos Savva from Beezwax presents at Bay Area FileMaker Developer Meetup.

Join us for an informative and interactive meetup that explores the benefits of integrating Python with FileMaker. Learn how Python can enhance your Claris FileMaker solutions by enabling data and visual analytics, IT automation, and AI + Machine Learning integration.

We’ll cover “Getting Started” with Python (using FileMaker 2024 on macOS for the demo) and briefly review various integration methods, such as web viewers, plugins and serverless options. We’ll demo an example FileMaker solution, bzPython-FM.

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Reconnect.Brisbane – AI with FileMaker 2024 and The Collaborative Journey

by Beezwax Team09/03/202409/15/2025

Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, News, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Katherine Russell and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present at Reconnect in Brisbane, Australia.

Beezwax is proud to sponsor and present at Reconnect.Brisbane, one of the biggest Claris FileMaker Developer conferences in the Asia-Pacific region this year. We’re excited to gather with our peers in the Claris community, and for the chance to engage in presentations and discussions on the latest development trends, especially AI with FileMaker.

At Reconnect 2024, Katherine Russell and Vince Menanno from Beezwax will kick off developer presentations with two sessions:

AI with FileMaker 2024: Get More Out of Your Data and Apps
The Collaborative Journey: Evolving Through Code, Teams, and Technology

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bBox 1.04 for FileMaker Now Available

by Simon Brown07/24/202411/27/2024

Posted in bBox, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, FM Products, Integration, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Swift, Tools & Add-ons

We are pleased to announce the release bBox version 1.04, including improvements to text parsing, XPath and SQLite support, and utility functions for FileMaker Admin API, Data API and OData API.

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.

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dotFMP 2024 – Chatbot, AI with FileMaker, Technical Debt

by Beezwax Team06/06/202412/19/2025

Posted in AI with FM, All, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, News, Performance, Python, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons, UX

Fabio Bosisio and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present at dotfmp Berlin, 2024.

If it’s June, we must be in Berlin for dotFMP …gathering with the developer community, and celebrating the launch of Claris FileMaker 2024, especially AI with FileMaker functionality.

As conference presenters, Fabio Bosisio and Vince Menanno from Beezwax will lead two sessions:

Chatbot in FileMaker 2024 {From Amazon Lex to the new GenAI}
‘Til Technical Debt Do Us Part

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Use REST and cURL with FileMaker 2023’s Data API

by Beezwax Team06/03/202409/15/2025

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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Rendez-Vous 2024 – Claris FileMaker Conférence, Nantes, France

by Jay Gonzales05/31/202406/09/2024

Posted in All, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, Performance, Techniques

À la conférence Rendez-Vous::FM 2024, 31 mai et 1er juin 2024 à Nantes, France, Vincenzo Menanno de Beezwax (sponsor or de la conférence), présente “Utilisations créatives et gains de performance grâce au fichier local, avec Claris FileMaker“, et “Enquêter, accélérer et collaborer avec InspectorPro 8“.

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EngageU 2023 – Most Inspiring Claris FileMaker Development Conference

by Vincenzo Menanno11/24/202303/19/2024

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

by Fabio Bosisio07/17/202307/18/2023

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 Team07/14/202307/26/2023

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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dotfmp: Python + Claris® FileMaker® | Historical Data & AWS Athena/SQS/S3 | UX & DX for Great Solutions

by Beezwax Team05/31/202303/19/2024

Posted in All, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, Integration, News, Performance, Python, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons, UX

Christos Savva, Fabio Bosisio and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present at dotfmp Berlin, 2023.

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:

Enhancing FileMaker with Python
What do you do with all this historical data in your app? [AWS Athena Interactive SQL / Serverless / S3 with FileMaker]
Elements for Building Great Solutions [FileMaker UX & DX]

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Native HTML Email in Claris® FileMaker®

by Fabio Bosisio03/14/202308/23/2024

Posted in All, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 18, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, Techniques

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.

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End to End Web Integration for Claris® Platforms

by Beezwax Team03/14/202304/24/2023

Posted in All, Beezwax News, bzBond, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, Integration, JavaScript, Tools & Add-ons

Alec Gregory from Beezwax presents at the Claris Beyond Meetup.

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.

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DIGFM December 2022 – Script Transactions in Claris FileMaker

by Beezwax Team12/08/202212/19/2025

Posted in All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, News, Performance, Techniques

Vince Menanno from Beezwax presents at DIGFM.

Let’s talk about Claris® FileMaker® and script transactions in FileMaker 19.6!

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