Claris FileMaker 2023 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.
Category: Techniques
FileMaker 2023 Perform Script on Server with Callback – Episode IV: Call Ya Later
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

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.

Problem Reports Dashboard
Track your progress while reducing problem code, and reducing technical debt.

Script Monitor
Create a visual and interactive representation of your script interactions, where you can monitor them and stay aware of their activities.

Search with LOgiCATOR
Locate InspectorPro 7 data with logical precision, including constrained and unconstrained finds within your solution analysis.

Security Perspective
Identify the privileges and security levels assigned to various user roles for each script.

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®”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
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
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
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”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
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.
FileMaker + Tableau | Embedded Dashboards & Expanding Possibilities
Vince Menanno from Beezwax presents at AutoEnter Live.
Let’s talk about Claris® FileMaker® and Tableau®!
As a speaker at AutoEnter Live, Vince presents Tableau as a great way for FileMaker developers to build dashboards, improve reporting, create visualizations and enable users to better understand their data. New techniques for embedding Tableau dashboards in FileMaker and using a Tableau Connector enable high-performance user interaction.
Learn more about how FileMaker + Tableau is a “match made in data heaven“, opening new possibilities as the two platforms combine to work as one.
Continue reading “FileMaker + Tableau | Embedded Dashboards & Expanding Possibilities”System for Success: Atomic Design for Google Display Ads
Jinal Shah is a UX Designer at Beezwax. She shared the process for creating Google Display ads, using a system to optimize collaboration between Design and Marketing teams.
Our design team wanted to implement a design system that could quickly generate different variations of Google Display ads in multiple sizes. This system had to balance creative freedom and brand adherence. We wanted a user to be able to change content, colors, backgrounds, buttons and other visual elements without further involvement from a designer. However, it was important to create a controlled environment so the ads would stay on brand and follow a conceptual and visual pattern.
Continue reading “System for Success: Atomic Design for Google Display Ads”dotfmp.berlin Claris FileMaker Developers 2022
BERLIN, Germany – Our senior developer Christos Savva attended the dotfmp.berlin 2022 “Unconference” held in June in Berlin. The conference was the first in-person opportunity in over two years for leading Claris FileMaker developers across Europe to meet, share their work, and explore what’s happening in the developer community.
At dotfmp.berlin 2022, more than 70 developers from eighteen countries talked through tools and techniques from their Claris playgrounds. Adding to that excitement was participation by Claris’s engineering and product management teams.
Continue reading “dotfmp.berlin Claris FileMaker Developers 2022”Custom Functions For Today’s FileMaker Devs Of Tomorrow
While working from home, and continuing to hone one’s FileMaker skills, it’s important for developers to stay active with ongoing learning pursuits. Claris® FileMaker®, as the world’s leading Workplace Innovation Platform, supports both the rapid creation of new custom apps, as well as the practical application of solutions to solve real-world business problems. Here, creative ideation is critical.
Continue reading “Custom Functions For Today’s FileMaker Devs Of Tomorrow”Claris Connect integrates Eversign, FileMaker and more
Let’s talk about Claris Connect as the way to orchestrate data-driven workflows involving Eversign digital signatures, Claris FileMaker, Slack and a range of other possible platforms! Fabio Bosisio from Beezwax will walk through details for setting up these types of integrations.
Continue reading “Claris Connect integrates Eversign, FileMaker and more”A fast, flexible Tableau Connector for FileMaker
Building a custom Tableau® Connector for Claris® FileMaker® enables faster, more reliable and more flexible connections between Tableau and FileMaker datasources, compared with the legacy Web Data Connector.
For a number of Beezwax client projects, we’ve installed and deployed a Tableau Connector (aka “TACO”) for FileMaker. The TACO was built using the Tableau Connector SDK (provided by Tableau) to connect to datasources on FileMaker Server. The TACO method uses JDBC rather than the FileMaker Data API for the connection between FileMaker and Tableau, and in our testing the performance of data extracts was up to 10 times faster.
Continue reading “A fast, flexible Tableau Connector for FileMaker”The Value and Benefits of Transactions with Claris FileMaker
Let’s talk about Claris® FileMaker® and transactions! Vincenzo Menanno discusses what transactions are, how they relate to FileMaker data operations (creating, updating, and deleting records), database normalization, and how to use transactional concepts to improve FileMaker performance, especially over a wide area network (WAN).
Continue reading “The Value and Benefits of Transactions with Claris FileMaker”