Claris FileMaker OAuth Emails
With FileMaker's release of OAuth email support, there is now a more secure and reliable option to send emails from Claris FileMaker using Outlook's GraphAPI or Google's Gmail API. Includes sample file and video.
Testing Your Work in Claris FileMaker
Testing is a crucial part of building reliable FileMaker solutions, whether you're a freelancer or a citizen developer. This guide explores smart testing strategies, from applying the "Zero, One, Many" rule to leveraging FileMaker’s Script Debugger for efficient troubleshooting. Learn how to think like a user, anticipate errors, and implement best practices that will make your applications more robust, user-friendly, and scalable.
Claris FileMaker Twilio Integration for MMS
Upgrade your FileMaker solution with a Twilio integration to send out text messages directly from FileMaker! Implementing Twilio with your solution makes for a seamless experience for both your business and your customers. Twilio can be used to send out messages for anything your business needs: order confirmation, shipping notifications, and more. Includes video and demo file.
Claris Connect Utilities
Take a tour of Claris Connect Utilities! We'll look at Calculations, Dates, Documents, FTP, Schedules, Text, Variables, Approvals, and Webhooks. Includes a video with example use cases, and how to get the most out of the Claris Connect Utilities.
Creating Claris FileMaker Dashboards
When making a robust solution in FileMaker that you want to suit your needs best, it’s important to consider the app's purpose and projected user pool. Thankfully, with the addition of a system dashboard to your FileMaker project, you gain a fast and user-friendly way to present the data of each user without the need for slow and bulky found sets. Includes a video and sample file.
Working on a Live FileMaker System
Avoid the potential problems while working on a live FileMaker system. Understand and prevent table locking, missing table occurrences, and throwing users on default tabs.
FileMaker Ends Support for Bento
Bento, the Mac OS X database solution that was touted as user-friendly and relied heavily on templates, has been discontinued and will no longer be supported or updated.
FileMaker Slide Controls
Details about the new Slide Control feature in FileMaker 13! Find out what a slide control is, a hidden slide control, and how to use slide controls.
Creating Readable FileMaker Code Saves Time, Money
Developers spend more time reading and debugging code than they do actually writing code. To limit frustration and wasting valuable time later on, here are some tips on what we do to help create readable code at the beginning of a project.
FileMaker Avalara Sales Tax Integration
Sales tax rates can be difficult to keep track of for your business if you have customers all over the country or even world. Learn how to integrate FileMaker with a web service to automate sales tax rate lookup to make life a little easier.
FileMaker Script Workspace
Learn all about the FileMaker Script Workspace, the new scripting environment in FileMaker 14. Become more efficient by taking advantage of time saving features.
FileMaker Safety Checklist
The FileMaker platform does a great job providing native security features for your organization. Ever considered what would happen if your data was breached? Take the first step to prevent a breach by securing your application by reviewing our checklist.
FileMaker Radius Search
Learn how to perform a radius search within your FileMaker solution, evaluating the distance between addresses. We take a look at how to build a radius search using the Google Maps API, some custom functions, and a couple calcs. Includes sample download file and YouTube video.
FileMaker 15 Security Enhancements
FileMaker has done it again. They are constantly improving the security features of the FileMaker platform to better serve its users. Now that FileMaker 15 has arrived lets review those changes.
FileMaker 16 Security Features
FileMaker is constantly improving the security features of the FileMaker platform to better serve its users. Learn about new field-level encryption functions, and account authentication with Amazon, Google, Microsoft Azure Active Directory via OAuth.
FileMaker Server 17 Admin Console
FileMaker Server 17 has a completely overhauled user interface for the admin console. It’s faster, easier to understand, more powerful, and a whole lot prettier. But beyond these aesthetic improvements FileMaker made quite a few changes under the hood. We showcase some of the coolest new features of FileMaker Server 17 along with a few tips to help get you started with the new admin console.
FileMaker 18 Security Enhancements
In FileMaker 18 you can more easily manage your security with enhancements such as a redesigned Manage Security dialog, the ability to manage users without full access, and notifications for unsigned plug-in access. Includes a video and sample file.
FileMaker Salesforce Marketing Cloud Integration
With Salesforce Marketing Cloud's SOAP API and automation tools, you can automatically import email engagement statistics into your FileMaker application and link them to customers and prospects. Learn how to integrate your FileMaker application with Salesforce Marketing Cloud to automatically import email campaign statistics. Includes a video and sample file.
DB Services Named FileMaker Partner of the Year
For the third year in a row, DB Services has been named the FileMaker Growth Partner of the Year for the Americas. This award is given annually to each region's FileMaker Partner that achieves the highest revenue and brand growth for Claris.
FileMaker Cloud Schedule Manager for AWS
Easily manage server-side schedules with the FileMaker Cloud Schedule Manager, a tool which uses the official FileMaker Cloud Admin API. Includes a video and sample file.