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”Category: FileMaker
demystify FileMaker and JavaScript [FM-JS]
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.
Continue reading “demystify FileMaker and JavaScript [FM-JS]”dotfmp: Python + Claris® FileMaker® | Historical Data & AWS Athena/SQS/S3 | UX & DX for Great Solutions
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]
Tableau Conference 2023 – Highlights
Posted in All, Community, Data Analytics, Events, Python, Reporting, Tableau, Tableau FM
Greetings from Tableau Conference 2023 (TC23) in Las Vegas, and beyond. Beezwax’s Data Analytics & Tableau Developer team is attending, both in-person and virtual.
TC23 is designed to reveal and inspire, with new product information, plus Tableau (and Salesforce) company roadmaps. More importantly, there’s plenty of insight from TC23 sessions including technical topics, case studies, thought leadership, cool demos, community inspiration, and hands-on learning.
Continue reading “Tableau Conference 2023 – Highlights”Let’s make an audit log with Claris FileMaker
Posted in All, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Server, Techniques
Claris FileMaker 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 Perform Script on Server with Callback – Episode IV: Call Ya Later
Posted in All, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Server, Performance, Techniques
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”Videos: Improving Your FileMaker Code with InspectorPro 7
Posted in All, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons
Five Ways InspectorPro 7 Can Improve Your FileMaker Code
Want better collaboration, performance and insight for your FileMaker development teams? With InspectorPro you can leverage advanced diagnostics, perform in-depth analysis, and gain insights with new visualizations.
Check out these videos from InspectorPro creator & Beezwax Chief Innovation Officer, Vince Menanno.
Continue reading “Videos: Improving Your FileMaker Code with InspectorPro 7”Native HTML Email in Claris® FileMaker®
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®”End to End Web Integration for Claris® Platforms
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.
Continue reading “End to End Web Integration for Claris® Platforms”Web UI and JavaScript with Claris® FileMaker®
Posted in All, bzBond, Claris Development, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Server, Integration, JavaScript
Alec Gregory from Beezwax presents at DIGFM & Bay Area FileMaker Developer Meetup.
Let’s talk about building web UIs and JavaScript functions using Claris FileMaker.
Continue reading “Web UI and JavaScript with Claris® FileMaker®”The New Horizon: Script Transactions in 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®”Transacting Transactions in Claris FileMaker
Posted in All, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons
Vince Menanno from Beezwax presents at FMDiSC (FileMaker Developers in Southern California).
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”Data Visualization in FileMaker Web Viewer
Posted in All, Claris Development, Community, Data Analytics, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Go, Integration, Reporting, Techniques
Alec Gregory from Beezwax presents at the Claris FileMaker for Research User Group.
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”Finer Faster FileMaker Precision: Measuring How Long It Takes
Posted in All, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Server, Logging, Monitoring, Performance, Techniques, Testing
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 )
DIGFM December 2022 – Script Transactions in Claris FileMaker
Vince Menanno from Beezwax presents at DIGFM.
Let’s talk about Claris® FileMaker® and script transactions in FileMaker 19.6!
Continue reading “DIGFM December 2022 – Script Transactions in Claris FileMaker”Panel & Networking: How Technology Can Lead The Way For Digital Transformation
As each of our clients weathers unique challenges, “digital transformation” comes to mind as something that exists in different stages. Some organizations are long-since transformed by technology, while others shifted more recently toward work dominated by the distributed as well as the digital.
In building custom applications to automate workflows, streamline operations and leverage technical advantages through innovation, we harness the power of digital transformation. We’re helping many organizations maintain existing momentum to position themselves for positive upswings, and others to recover from economic downturns, overcome turbulence in operations, or head off uncertainty about technical resources.
Digital transformation supports organizational transformation. And it can also lead this transition.
Continue reading “Panel & Networking: How Technology Can Lead The Way For Digital Transformation”Beezwax Sponsors EngageU: The Biggest Claris® FileMaker® Developer Conference
Christos Savva and Vince Menanno Present Rapid Serverless Integrations and FileMaker Native Script Transactions
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”Design Think Your Code
Posted in Claris Development, Design, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker Go, Software Design, Techniques
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”Rome FileMaker® Week: Docker, Node-RED, Native Script Transactions and a Chatbot
Vincenzo Menanno and Fabio Bosisio from Beezwax present at Rome FileMaker Week.
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:
- Local FileMaker Development with Docker and Node-RED
- The New Horizon: Native Script Transactions in FileMaker
- Chatbot
CQDF Montreal 2022 – Claris FileMaker
La 7e Conférence québécoise des développeurs FileMaker (CQDF) 2022: les 15 et 16 Septembre 2022 à l’Auberge Saint-Gabriel, Montreal. Vincenzo Menanno, Beezwax, présente “Le nouvel horizon | Transactions de script natif” avec Claris (FileMaker) Pro.