Tag: Python

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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