Version 0.82 of bBox Now Available

We are pleased to release another update to bBox, v0.82 of our free FileMaker utility plug-in.

I last posted about version 0.80. Some of the changes since then are:

• XPath returns error messages with bBox_LastError
• XPath can now return results with no nodes
• XPath no longer attempts to register the same namespace multiple times
• Python now returns compilation error messages with bBox_LastError
• ExecuteSQL now clears error after a successful call
• SQLite engine now has fmevaluate function

There are now 160 examples in the demo file. Some of the 20 examples added for v0.82 demonstrate how to:

• use XlsxWriter to create Excel files with formatting & calcs
• use the SQLite fmevaluate function
• run a PHP script [also see the blog post]
• extract field names used in FileMaker layouts
• do LDAP & Open Directory lookups
• perform basic SMTP email sending
• parse JSON weather data from a web API
• use xhtml2pdf to create PDF files from FileMaker data or HTML

In addition, other developers have built example solutions using bBox, including:

• JavaScript-driven PDF Reports in FileMaker using AngularJS

You can get more details on the bBox plug-in and its functions at http://beezwax.net/bbox and http://bbox.beezwax.net.

Simon