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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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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Under its Administration: Administrator screen, FileMaker Server’s Admin Console has a feature you can use to restrict access so that only certain IP addresses are allowed to connect. Although usually a useful feature, here we’ll discuss how to turn it off if it isn’t working correctly.
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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.
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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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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.
Rome FileMaker® Week 2024: iOS Widgets & Local File Technique
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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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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Posted in AI, All, Beezwax News, Business, Community, Data Analytics, Events, Machine Learning, Marketing, Slack, Tableau
Dreamforce was often a bit of a disruption for me as a San Franciscan—traffic, closed roads, did I mention traffic? This year, instead of sitting in my car waiting to inch forward, I shared a Waymo to get around The City, and experienced Dreamforce firsthand. As a marketer and technologist, I was eager to see how Salesforce presented itself. As a company, Beezwax paid close attention to this conference, especially innovation happening with Tableau and Slack.
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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
A Kaleidoscope of Programming Languages: Lisp
Posted in All, Software Design, Web Development
When I was a kid, my favorite video game was Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. When the game loaded, there was a quote:
There is no knowledge that is not power.
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bBox 1.04 for FileMaker Now Available
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.
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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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Posted in All, DevOps, FileMaker, Integration, productivity, Software Design, Tools, Tools & Add-ons, Web Development
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.
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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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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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Posted in All, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, React, Ruby, Software Design, Typescript, Web Development
In this series, I’ll talk about common refactors I suggest when doing code review in my day to day. I’ll start with conditionals, including severals example refactors. The goal is to help produce code that’s easier to read and understand, and thus, easier to maintain and produces fewer bugs.
These examples will be in TypeScript but the refactors are common patterns and can apply to most languages out there, such as Python, Ruby, Swift, PHP, Java, Go, JavaScript, etc.
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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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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
FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 1: Fundamental Power
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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