Exporting JSON

JSON, JSON, JSON! If you haven’t gotten used to it yet, you’d better start. It’s the way you communicate with the web. It’s the structure that’s winning. XML is too verbose, and .tab and .csv aren’t always clear enough. So, what are...

AI Coding is WAY Faster

While some of the excitement around AI deals with using the technology within your FileMaker solution, it’s likely that, as a developer, you should be more excited about how AI changes what you do as a developer. In fact, it’s theorized that the occupation...
Testing Privilege Sets

Testing Privilege Sets

If there’s one thing you shouldn’t ignore from the start of any FileMaker solution, it’s the way security is going to factor into your creation. You need to know who the users and groups are and what their access rights are. These access rights are...
Claris FileMaker 2024 – Discovering new features

Claris FileMaker 2024 – Discovering new features

Companies release new versions of software all the time. One of the issues we may face as developers is that not everything is documented and the „marketing spin“ might not provide all the technical details. In this video I showcase how I go about the...
Fundamentals: Knowing Context

Fundamentals: Knowing Context

Over one’s development career, you’ll come across a number of people who „think“ they know how something really works. You then proceed to show them some of the cool things they can really do, like a „context jump“ within FileMaker....

Status Messages Enhanced

User interface related topics are always exciting when they work really well within FileMaker. Regarding non-modal status updates, e.g. showing the user what happened or is happening, we have a few options we can use. The most simple is to toggle a value which uses a...