FileMaker Inc recently announced the details for this year’s FileMaker Developer Conference – DevCon 2008. This year DevCon moves back to Phoenix, Arizona after a few years in Orlando, Florida. For Australian attendees this is good news – connecting to Phoenix is much quicker than another long flight to Orlando from the US West Coast […]
FTPit Pro 2.0.0b1 has recently been released by the fine folks at CNS Plug-ins. I’ve been eagerly waiting for the “Pro” version of FTPit for quite a while now. I am a big fan of the SMTPit Pro and Pop3it Pro plugins for sending and receiving email from a FileMaker database respectively. You can download […]
I’ve been spending most of my time over the past week or so working on integrating the Google Charts API into my upcoming FileMaker Pro CRM solution. For those not familiar with it the Google Charts API was released on December 6, 2007 and lets you dynamically generate charts via an HTTP request. So what’s […]
A new FileMaker related book has recently been released – FileMaker Pro 9 Bible, co-authored by Australia’s very own Ray Cologon and Dennis R. Cohen. Weighing in at a massize 768 pages this will be an invaluable addition for most FileMaker developers, both beginner and experienced. I’ve ordered my copy from Amazon already and are […]
As a long time user of as many plugins as I can get my hands on one of my favourite features of FileMaker Server (starting with v5.5 if my memory serves me correctly) is the ability to push plugins to FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced clients automatically from the server using some simple FileMaker […]
One of the great new features of FileMaker Server 9 is the ability to schedule regular ScriptMaker scripts (i.e those that you create with FileMaker Pro/Pro Advanced). FileMaker Server has had the ability to perform system-level scripts since at least v5.5 as far as I can recall (e.g. Windows batch scripts for Windows and AppleScripts […]
Whilst working on our new CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solution – Data Manager – this week we made an interesting discovery with the way the Web Viewer works. We wanted to have a way to preview an html email that was being composed in Data Manager so the user could see how it will look […]
Our new website was launched this week. We’re still working on the content side of things and some additional functionality that will involve PHP and MySQL (we will be able to access these MySQL databases using the External SQL datasources feature of FileMaker Pro 9). Stayed tuned!
I’ve been working with some web services lately that require some XML data to be submitted as a POST. FileMaker Pro can import XML data from a .xml file or from an HTTP request (and use a XSLT stylesheet from a file or an HTTP request). However XML can only be exported to a .xml […]
I’m a big fan of FileMaker Plugins and use them extensively in my solutions as they allow me to implement features that are not native to FileMaker Pro. I’ve spent some time lately with the zippScript plugin developed by John Kornhaus [Updated October 10 to remove the link to the zippTools website as John Kornhaus […]