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Better, Faster Random Text for FileMaker

by Simon Brown12/30/202502/11/2026

Posted in All, bBox, FileMaker, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker 2025, FileMaker Server, Integration, JavaScript, Performance, Python, Testing

We often need large amounts of random text to simulate real-world data loads while building a FileMaker solution. I was looking to create a large chunks of unique data for testing — we’re talking at least millions of characters. Here, I’ll compare the performance of a few methods I tried.

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Why Fast-Growing Teams Outgrow Spreadsheets

by Paul de Hallé10/16/202502/11/2026

Posted in All, Business, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker 2025, Performance, Reporting, Security, Web Development

In the early stages of building a team or company, spreadsheets are a gift. They’re simple, fast to set up, and familiar to just about everyone. Need to track spend, manage a process, or share information across a few people? Open a new tab in Google Sheets or Excel, and you’re off to the races.

But if your company is scaling quickly as it adds people, processes, and increasing pressure to move faster, spreadsheets can quietly become a liability.

At Beezwax, we’ve worked with hundreds of growing teams who hit the same problem. What started as a clever spreadsheet workaround slowly turned into a fragile, messy system that couldn’t keep up. In this post, we’ll break down why that happens and what comes next.

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See FileMaker analysis tools in action, including InspectorPro 9 — 2025 Claris Community Live

by Beezwax Team09/23/202502/11/2026

Posted in AI with FM, All, Business, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2025, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, FileMaker UX Design, FM Products, InspectorPro, Integration, News, Performance, Security, Tools & Add-ons

Special event featuring Beezwax’s Vincenzo Menanno and other Claris Partners

Gain deeper insight into how your Claris FileMaker solutions are structured and maintained. With the right developer tools, you can make changes confidently and have full visibility into the impact.

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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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Native JSON Parsing in FileMaker 2025: A Revolution in Speed

by Paul McCudden07/11/202502/11/2026

Posted in Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 2025, JSON, Performance, Techniques

In FileMaker 2025 (v22) a powerful shift has happened that changes how we work with JSON in FileMaker. This shift, thanks to JSONParse, is a huge leap forward in JSON efficiency. For any developer who has fought performance bottlenecks when handling large JSON payloads, the speed improvements are like switching from a bicycle to a Formula One racing car.

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Records, Go Get ‘Em in Claris FileMaker 2025

by Vincenzo Menanno07/09/202502/11/2026

Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 2025, Performance, Techniques

As a FileMaker developer, I have powerful tools. But I have long wished for a highly-efficient mechanism for representing and reproducing any arbitrary set of records. Now, it’s here, with FileMaker 2025:

• GetRecordIDsFromFoundSet – function
• Go To List of Records – script step

This is fantastic. Something I have wished – for a long, long time!

Now let’s cover these new methods, with an example file (which you can also download – see below).

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Monthly Maintenance – Care and Feeding of Linux Servers

by Rami Kanj06/27/202502/11/2026

Posted in AI, All, DevOps, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker 2025, FileMaker Server, Logging, Monitoring, Performance, Security, Server Administration, System Administration, Web Development

Maintaining the health and security of your Linux servers is more crucial than ever. With any server, you should be using real-time monitoring solutions, and performing backups every day (or more often, depending on data use). And, while you can rely on the OS to automatically install updates–especially on Windows and Mac–with Linux you benefit from a more “managed” approach to regular maintenance.

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Quick FileMaker Server Stats.log Summaries

by Simon Brown06/13/202502/10/2026

Posted in All, DevOps, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, Logging, Monitoring, Performance, Python, Server Administration, System Administration

When making changes to a FileMaker file or a FileMaker Server’s configuration, it is often useful to know if the changes have helped, or made things worse, or perhaps had no effect at all. FileMaker’s Stats.log generates some data needed to summarize this, with some help from monitoring and analysis tools, or in this case, a Python script.

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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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Beezwax Sponsors EngageU FileMaker Developer Conference

by Jay Gonzales11/16/202411/21/2024

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

Vincenzo Menanno Presents “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”

This week, November 17-19, we’re in Malmö, at EngageU. It’s the largest Claris® / FileMaker® Developer conference in Europe this year, and Beezwax is proud to be a sponsor.

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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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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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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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InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate

by Beezwax Team04/25/202409/15/2025

Posted in AI with FM, All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, News, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Beezwax’s Vincenzo Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker development colleagues, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”. Vince shares the latest research, development best practices and product offerings to Claris / FileMaker conferences attendees as well as several developer meetups.

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