Learning Claris FileMaker

SeedCode’s Ann Kiser has added a version management component to SeedCode Complete as part of a custom project she’s working on.

Complete comes with a built-in audit log, but document versioning goes further by preserving all previous iterations of an attached file and tying that to an approval process so you can know which versions are available for use.

This is part of a thorough customization Ann is doing with Mark Thomas for Okamoto Corporation, the largest sock manufacturer in Japan. (We love manufacturing projects at SeedCode!)

The solution runs in both Japanese and English, and Splash, Inc. is helping with the localization.

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In this FileMaker Pro beginner tutorial we cover how to create automated email template using a variety of FileMaker script steps.

By using email template, businesses can save a huge amount of time from repeatedly writing very standard emails (like invoicing, or a welcome letter).

Making sure the emails that you are sending from FileMaker are valid is very important for your organization and to your email provider.

Our clients appreciate how easy it is to integrate email distributions within their FileMaker workflows.

But, they almost always want to send HTML formatted email messages.

This makes perfect sense because who among us has sent plain text email messages in the last fifteen years?

Almost everyone includes some sort of signature or other fancy elements in their emails.

Up until now we would just lower our eyes and tell our customers that they can't do that natively in FileMaker.

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when you upgrade to FileMaker Pro 18 Advanced. FileMaker, Inc. has given us the tools to tell our clients that they can send HTML-formatted email natively within their FileMaker application!

How exactly are we going to make this happen for our customers?

Well, I'll walk through how to do just that.

Have you tried sending a lot of marketing or notification emails for your company using your internet provider’s email sending account and failed?

This approach is fraught with problems and limitations. Your hosting company can shut you down because you look like a spammer… or if the email goes through, it ends up in the user’s junk mail folder.

You also limited to plain-looking non-HTML emails.

The answer is to use a cloud-based email sending service. You would use FileMaker to create app-generated emails (or transactional emails) in response to a user’s behavior.

They play a critical role in acquiring and retaining customers. You can also get powerful email analytics of bounce, open, and click-through rates that can indicate if there are any serious email delivery issues.

These email sending services are designed to help digital marketers and application developers send marketing, notification, and other transactional emails.

They are reliable, cost-effective services for businesses of all sizes that use email to keep in contact with their customers.

Making FileMaker talk to these services is not a trivial programming challenge.

You must learn their API (Application Programming Interface) and then create the appropriate calls using FileMaker functions to get them to work.

Then if the service changes their pricing model, updates their API, or doesn’t work out for some reason you need to reprogram your solution.

The fmFlare transactional Email module solves these issues.

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FileMaker & MailChimp

MailChimp is the absolute market leader in email marketing. With 12 million customers, MailChimp is the absolute market leader with an unrivaled set of features providing online Email Marketing for managing contacts, sending emails and tracking results.

We (kempenautomatisering) supply you with the necessary PHP & FileMaker scripts to let you connect your FileMaker solution to your MailChimp account.

Envía correos electrónicos masivos, usando FileMaker.