Category: Technique

Category: Technique

Video: Get Started With FileMaker in 10 minutes… for FREE

28 September 2023 - Author : - Category : Blog, FileMaker, Technique, Video
FileMaker: Get Started

When it comes to database management and application development, the FileMaker platform has been a trusted choice for years. However, with so much information available, it can sometimes seem like a daunting task to get started. That's where Fabrice Nordmann comes in to simplify the process for you. Who is Fabrice Nordmann? Fabrice Nordmann is [...]

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FileMaker 2023 20.2 – Layout Calculations – Video

26 September 2023 - Author : - Category : Blog, FileMaker, Technique

Claris has just announced a new release of FileMaker, 20.2. Among other new features and improvements, let’s take a closer look at layout calculations. Video by Fabrice Nordmann Updates: I forgot to mention symbols in the video. Introduced very early (FileMaker Pro 2 or earlier), symbols like ## (page number), @@ (record number), “//” (current […]

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FileMaker 2023 – “Audit log”

25 April 2023 - Author : - Category : Blog, FileMaker, Technique
FileMaker 2023 icon

As we saw in this detailed review of what's new in FileMaker 2023, one of the two flagship features, along with Perform Script on Server With Callback, is what Claris calls "Audit Log." There is so much to know about this feature that we preferred to dedicate a full post to it. Not an audit [...]

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FileMaker 2023

25 April 2023 - Author : - Category : Blog, FileMaker, News, Technique, Video
FileMaker 19 to FileMaker 2023

FileMaker 2023 is available! an in-depth exploration. Claris just announced the immediate availability of the new version of FileMaker, FileMaker 2023. It has been a long time since we published a long article about a new version of FileMaker. The main reason to that was probably that numbering system in version 19 did not give [...]

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WebDirect and the Back button

4 September 2020 - Author : - Category : Blog, FileMaker, Technique - Tag : , ,
No way back

WebDirect was introduced as component of FileMaker Server 13 and has evolved regularly since then. It makes your FileMaker custom applications available in the browser and available through the Internet, Claris making sure that the user experience is as close as possible from FileMaker Pro’s. This has proven very useful in corporate companies where installing […]

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FileMaker 19: get a list of IDs with Execute FileMaker Data API

27 August 2020 - Author : - Category : FileMaker, Technique, Video

[WARNING: this video is for advanced developers only and does not explain the details of the technique. It’s here to share an idea only, not code]   One of my favorite features in FileMaker 19 is the new, undocumented script step, Execute FileMaker Data API. The FileMaker Data API used to be a FileMaker Server […]

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FileMaker.PerformScript Javascript class extended

4 June 2020 - Author : - Category : Blog, FileMaker, Technique

With the release of FileMaker 19, it becomes easier than ever (it was already largely possible before - I had the opportunity to show the "#hash trick" in a few conferences ;) ) to make FileMaker and Javascript communicate. Notably by executing Javascript code in a Web Viewer thanks to the script step Perform Javascript [...]

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filemaker2tableau, a new way to connect your FileMaker data to Tableau

12 March 2020 - Author : - Category : Blog, FileMaker, Technique - Tag : , ,
FileMaker 2 Tableau

Sometimes, a leader has to go beyond what’s just available. As 1-more-thing, a world leader in the FileMaker/Tableau integration, we’ve decided to share our home made FileMaker/Tableau connector, an alternative to the one distributed by Claris with FileMaker Server. This new connector is based on the latest version of Tableau’s Web Data Connector (WDC) and […]

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Claris Connect: the new integration/orchestration platform by Claris

3 March 2020 - Author : - Category : Blog, FileMaker, News, Technique, Video - Tag : , ,

Today Claris made its new integration/orchestration platform available: Claris Connect. During DevCon 2020 in Orlando, Brad Freitag (@bradfreitag), CEO of Claris International announced the acquisition by Apple/Claris of the Italian startup Stamplay. A few months later, Claris Connect is born! This new platform allows you to create and automate very complex data workflows in minutes… […]

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Custom apps integrated into a Central System: the example of UCLouvain

11 October 2019 - Author : - Category : Technique

For the last 5 years we have been the reference consultant for FileMaker at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain). With no less than 240 programs of study, this university, spread over 7 sites in Belgium, welcomes more than 30 000 students. With an excellent reputation in education, UCLouvain is also renowned in the field [...]

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Quick Find: the forgotten feature

26 September 2018 - Author : - Category : FileMaker, Technique

Released with FileMaker 11, more than 8 years ago in 2010, Quick Find is probably one of the most underestimated features in FileMaker. For some reason, there wasn’t even much emphasis in the product marketing when it was released. Platform evengelists would mention it as a ‘Google-like search engine within FileMaker’, product documentation said ‘search […]

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