A 2 way SMS solution we built for a client is featured in the latest FileMaker Asia Pacific Newsletter: http://www.filemaker.com/au/newsletter/archives/2013/q4/FM_pages/page_02/FM-News_AU_02.html?#CD The solution allows people interested in a property for sale with a real estate agency to “subscribe” to that property by sending an SMS with the property code to a dedicated virtual number that they […]
Databuzz today announced fmSMS v3, an upgrade to their award winning solution that lets you send and receive SMS/TXT messages from within FileMaker Pro. fmSMS allows you to send an SMS from FileMaker Pro to almost any mobile phone in the world via one of the supported SMS Gateways, reaching over 860 mobile networks in […]
FileMaker Inc. have recently released the schedule for the 2013 FileMaker Developer Conference, to be held in San Diego, California from August 12-15. We’re excited to announce that we will be exhibiting at the conference for the first time, showcasing fmSMS v3, our 2 way SMS solution for FileMaker Pro. We’ve completely rewritten fmSMS from […]
We’re putting together the final touches to v3 of fmSMS, our two way SMS FileMaker solution that allows you to send and receive SMS/txt messages from your FileMaker database. With the release of FileMaker Pro v12 we decided to take this opportunity to rewrite fmSMS from the ground up, which has meant the v3 release […]
When working with the FileMaker API for PHP there are a number of functions that are helpful when working with Value Lists. You can use the listValueLists function to return the names of any value lists associated with the layout you are referencing, and the getValueLists function to return a multi-level associative array of value lists (i.e. the contents of the […]
Databuzz is pleased to announce that Andrew Duncan recently passed the FileMaker 12 Certification Exam and is now FileMaker Certified in v8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. FileMaker Certification is your validation that you are hiring an experienced FileMaker professional who has technical knowledge of the complete FileMaker product line and has passed the “Developer […]
Update for Claris FileMaker Pro 19.4.1 – a new faster query to return base tables is now available in Claris FileMaker Pro 19.4.1 or later. Details can be found in this article. Update for Claris FileMaker Pro 20 (2023) – FileMaker Pro v20 includes new functions that return information about the base tables instead of […]
I’ve been using the ability to execute SQL statements via a FileMaker Pro plug-in more and more lately (see An Approach to FileMaker Server-Side Script Debugging for an example of this) and recently encountered one issue that might arise when working with files created with different system formats to those on your computer. It’s important […]
We’re very happy to report that fmSMS, our solution that lets you send and receive SMS messages with FileMaker, has just been announced the winner of the 2011 Clickatell Personalized Priority Messaging Award in the Application Developers Category. You can read the full announcement here: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Clickatell-Announces-Personalized-Priority-Messaging-Award-Winners-1577896.htm The full list of winners is at: http://www.clickatell.com/ppmawards/winners_2011.php We’ll post a […]
The ability to schedule the execution of FileMaker Scripts – that is scripts created in ScriptMaker/Manage Scripts using FileMaker Pro/FileMaker Pro Advanced client application – under FileMaker Server was one of the sleeper features when it was first introduced in FileMaker Server v9 in July, 2007. It didn’t even rate a mention in the original […]