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.
Continue reading “See FileMaker analysis tools in action, including InspectorPro 9 — 2025 Claris Community Live”We are pleased to announce the release of bBox version 1.06 for Claris® FileMaker®, which adds support for macOS text windows and many update enhancements, including to bBox’s support for integrating Python code with your FileMaker apps.
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 DuckDB. Also included is a demo file that has over 220 examples of how you can put bBox functions to work for you.
If you’re interested in Python integration with FileMaker, also check out bzPython-FM, which uses bBox.
Continue reading “bBox 1.06 for FileMaker enhances support for macOS text windows and Python”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.
Continue reading “Beezwax Sponsors Vienna Calling 2025 – FileMaker Developer Conference”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.
Continue reading “Beezwax Presents at Elevate FM 2025 – Toronto FileMaker Developer Conference”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!
Continue reading “Explore using REST and cURL with FileMaker Data API”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.
Continue reading “Using OData, Syslog or DuckDB to handle FileMaker Schema Change Notifications (via Plug-in API)”We are pleased to announce the release of bBox version 1.05, which adds support for schema change notifications, a new Ubuntu ARM binary, and DuckDB integration.
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.
If you’re interested in Python integration with FileMaker, also check out bzPython-FM, which uses bBox.
Continue reading “bBox 1.05 for FileMaker Now Available”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.
Continue reading “Beezwax Sponsors EngageU FileMaker Developer Conference”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:
Beezwax is also proud to be a sponsor once again this year, for Rome FileMaker Week 2024.
Continue reading “Rome FileMaker® Week 2024: iOS Widgets & Local File Technique”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.
Continue reading “Python with FileMaker®: Get Started with Analytics, Automation and AI + ML”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:
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.
Continue reading “bBox 1.04 for FileMaker Now Available”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.
Continue reading “Make the impossible easy with AI and FileMaker 2024 – Claris Community Live”This is an introduction to git. I designed this first for non-coders, and have tried to make it useful for anyone who wants to learn more fundamentals of git. We’ll do everything locally, so feel free to follow along.
Hopefully this introduction will show you how git can be used, and how it fits into things like GitHub.
Continue reading “Git from Scratch – Gittin’ Started”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:
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.
Continue reading “AI with FM – Amazing Intelligence with FileMaker 2024”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!
Continue reading “Use REST and cURL with FileMaker 2023’s Data API”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.
Continue reading “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”Beezwax’s Vincenzo (Vince) Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker developers at meetups and conferences, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”.
At the March 2024 Claris Beyond Meetup, Vince covers diagnostics, analysis and data visualization with InspectorPro for FileMaker. He shares the latest research, development best practices, and product offerings. Vince also has a number of surprises up his sleeves that he can’t wait to show. If you’re a FileMaker Developer attending, we hope to see you there!
Continue reading “Claris Beyond Meetup – FileMaker Diagnostics, Analysis, and Data Visualization with InspectorPro”Beezwax’s Vincenzo (Vince) Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker developers at meetups and conferences, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”.
At the March 2024 shared meetups for Ann Arbor FileMaker + Milwaukee Area FileMaker Devs, Vince shares the latest research, development best practices, and product offerings. Vince has a number of surprises up his sleeves that he can’t wait to show. If you’re a FileMaker Developer attending, we hope to see you there!
Continue reading “FileMaker Meetups Ann Arbor + Milwaukee – InspectorPro 8: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”
