Tag: Python

bBox 1.06 for FileMaker enhances support for macOS text windows and Python

by Simon Brown
Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, bBox, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker 2025, FileMaker Server, FM Products, Integration, Python, Tools & Add-ons

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.

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Python with FileMaker®: Get Started with Analytics, Automation and AI + ML

by Beezwax Team
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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Beezwax Sponsors EngageU: The Biggest Claris® FileMaker® Developer Conference

by Beezwax Team
Posted in Beezwax News, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, Integration, Performance, Python, Techniques

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!

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bBox 0.80 Now Available

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

Its been almost a year since we’ve mentioned bBox on this venue, but we are now pleased to announce that version 0.80 is publicly available.

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Working with JSON data in FileMaker

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, bBox, FileMaker, JavaScript, Techniques

There are a number of ways of working with JSON data in FileMaker. At least two typical ones are:

  • Custom Functions based parsing & encoding
  • using a WebViewer & JavaScript

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Version 0.71 of bBox Now Available

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, bBox, Beezwax News, FileMaker, News, Tools & Add-ons

A new version of our free bBox FileMaker plug-in is now available.

Some of the changes since the last release are:

  • better support for Python results, in particular lists & sets
  • curl, sort, bash, and grep commands now allow up to 7 parameters
  • better handling of invalid parameters to FileRead and PasteboardGet functions
  • added the Python function fm.evaluate
  • more examples in the demo file

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Version 0.63 of bBox Now Available

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, bBox, Beezwax News, FileMaker, Tools & Add-ons

A new version of our free bBox FileMaker plug-in is now available.

Some of the changes since the last release I blogged about are:

  • new fm.executesql Python function
  • additional types when converting to/from Python
  • new bBox_FileWrite, bBox_FileSymlink, and bBox_FileRead functions

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Using Cocoa’s PDFDocument class from FileMaker

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, FileMaker, Python, Techniques

I’ve been looking for a way to interface with some Cocoa classes in the Mac OS X API from FileMaker for a while. My initial target was PDFDocument, part of the PDF Kit suite of classes. For more information on Cocoa’s PDF Kit see here: Introduction to PDF Kit Programming Guide

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