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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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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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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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FileMaker Perform Script on Server: Episode IX – Endless PSoS Abilities

by Vincenzo Menanno11/07/202409/15/2025

Posted in All, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, Techniques

If you go looking for a FileMaker script step called Perform Script on Server on Server, you are not going to find it. Because this isn’t a new script step, but rather the same Perform Script on Server (PSoS) that we have always had, except that now it is FileMaker Server-compatible.

This capability allows FileMaker to fire off other Perform Script on Server scripts (from an existing script that is running on server), and either wait for those to complete or not. I have been thinking that with this feature one could build a main controller script and a set of worker scripts. That is just one idea, of many, I am sure.

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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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Make the impossible easy with AI and FileMaker 2024 – Claris Community Live

by Beezwax Team07/23/202407/24/2024

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

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

Sharing development examples of using AI with FileMaker, Vincenzo Menanno from Beezwax will join the Claris product team and Partners in a Claris Community Live discussion about building modern solutions, making the impossible easy.

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Semantic Search with FileMaker 2024 – Claris Community Live

by Beezwax Team07/08/202412/19/2025

Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, Integration, Techniques

Special event featuring Will Miro from Beezwax, with Claris product team and Partners

Sharing research and demo examples of using AI with FileMaker, Will Miro from Beezwax will join the Claris product team and Partners in a Claris Community Live discussion about the new semantic search features in Claris FileMaker 2024.

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FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 3: Advanced Fun

by Will Miro06/12/202412/19/2025

Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Development, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, Integration, News, Techniques

Semantic search is a bit like LiDAR: it penetrates the data’s lexical canopy to reveal underlying meaning. In “Part 1: Fundamental Power” and “Part 2: Key Details” we covered the basics of FileMaker semantic search. Now let’s consider some more exotic ways this new feature can put a spotlight on our data.

We’ll show an example of “unified search” across multiple tables, using natural language to construct a semantic search. Then we’ll extend this to a second example, showing “unified search + actions”. A downloadable demo/tutorial file is provided for each of these two examples.

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FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 2: Key Details

by Will Miro06/06/202408/26/2024

Posted in AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Development, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, Integration, News, Techniques

In “FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 1: Fundamental Power” we discussed how to configure your Claris FileMaker 2024 app to support semantic search. Here in Part 2 of this three-part blog series we’ll dig deeper into the details of this awesome new functionality, including embeddings and cosine similarity, with a demo tutorial file for exploring AI Call Logging.

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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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FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 1: Fundamental Power

by Will Miro06/04/202408/26/2024

Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Development, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, Integration, News, Techniques

FileMaker 2024 delivers native semantic search, and it’s awesome. Now you can search records whose text is similar to the semantic meaning of your search term, even if those records don’t include your exact search term. Using natural language, users can be freed from trying to recall exactly how data was input. Let’s dive in to see just how powerful FileMaker’s semantic search is.

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AI with FM – Amazing Intelligence with FileMaker 2024

by Vincenzo Menanno06/04/202407/23/2024

Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Vince reacts with details, and his share of amazement, to the experience of pair programming with ChatGPT as co-pilot, searching for deeper meaning in FileMaker scripts using semantic search (using InspectorPro 8), and the overall experience using AI with FileMaker 2024.

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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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