Using cURL within FileMaker Pro

While FileMaker’s script step Insert from URL does allow for basic communication with web services, it is, by no means, comprehensive enough to provide all the features necessary. What’s really needed is the full cURL library. This open source tool has been available...

data viewer tip

Not sure if this has been posted before, but you can actually use the data viewer to generate a global variable with a persistent value even though it has not been previously defined in a script or let ( ) statement. Just set this in the "follow" tab in the...

ExecuteSQL is extremely slow

I attempted to use the ExecuteSQL statement below to count the number of unique records in my Orders Table of 5200 rows. The hope was that the SQL statement would be faster than using traditional Filemaker self-joins. In addition, the goal was to reduce the number of...

tracking what users do in a data base

hello all . I have a problem and wonder if anybody has ran across this . I developed a reservation system for a small hotel . there are five user and all but one user has no problems making reservations etc... One user always has a problem with the system , either it...