Category: Reporting

FileMaker + Tableau | Embedded Dashboards & Expanding Possibilities

by Jay Gonzales
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, News, Reporting, Tableau, Tableau FM, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

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.

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Tableau Conference 2022 – Day 3

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Community, Data Analytics, Events, Python, Reporting, Tableau

We finished three days of Tableau Conference 2022 (TC22) in sunny Las Vegas! The in-person and virtual attendees from Beezwax’s Data Analytics & Tableau development teams shared a few more highlights of TC22 sessions, with information, insights and a few key takeaways.
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Tableau Conference 2022 – Day 2

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Community, Data Analytics, Events, Python, Reporting, Tableau

Hello again from the end of Day 2 at Tableau Conference 2022 (TC22) in sunny Las Vegas! The in-person and virtual attendees from Beezwax’s Data Analytics & Tableau development teams shared more highlights of TC22 sessions, with information, insights and a few key takeaways.
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Tableau Conference 2022 – Highlights

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Community, Data Analytics, Events, Python, Reporting, Tableau

Hello from Tableau Conference 2022 (TC22) in sunny Las Vegas! Attending in-person from Beezwax were Rob, Sarah, Vince and Jay from our Tableau/Analytics team, with several more Beez joining virtually.
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Day 3 Sessions | Tableau Conference 2019

by Long Nguyen
Posted in Community, Data Analytics, Events, Reporting, Tableau

And we feel welcomed!
Greeting us from the Mandalay Bay Convention Center

Hello again from Tableau Conference 2019 in sunny Las Vegas! Here at Beezwax, we had 5 attendees this year with a diverse set of sessions between us. I wanted to give a rundown of what I went through and some of my takeaways.

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Day 2 Sessions | Tableau Conference 2019

by Long Nguyen
Posted in Community, Data Analytics, Events, Reporting, Tableau

And we feel welcomed!
Greeting us from the Mandalay Bay Convention Center

Hello again from Tableau Conference 2019 in sunny Las Vegas! Here at Beezwax, we had 5 attendees this year with a diverse set of sessions between us. I wanted to give a rundown of what I went through and some of my takeaways.
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Export Just What You Need in FileMaker

by Vincenzo Menanno
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, Reporting, Techniques

The Lesson of Context

One of the first lessons I learned with FileMaker is that of context! Layouts, reports, calculations, scripts, and so on all act from the perspective of a single Table Occurrence (TO) — the “context” — pulling in data from related tables as needed.

Generally, the record set being acted on is the set of records in that context table occurrence or a found subset thereof. There are a few exceptions to this, however, and today we’re going to explore one of those.

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Installing xhtml2pdf on OS X

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, bBox, FileMaker, Python, Reporting, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Xhtml2pdf is a cross-platform Python module that allows easy conversion of HTML or XML to PDF files. Its dependencies, ReportLab & Pisa, also have a host of very useful functions, including programmatically creating or modifying PDF content & creating barcodes.

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