Learning Claris FileMaker

Typically, portals in FileMaker are used for showing related data. However, a portal based on the same table as its layout would simply display the current found set.

If you made the portal large enough, the layout would appear as a list view- which wouldn’t be very helpful.

So, in this blog, we will make the portal smaller and create a powerful layout design, the Master Detail portal.

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An API (application program interface) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools that specify how software components should interact.

The purpose of the FileMaker Data API is to allow web services to access data in hosted databases.

QuickBooks is an integrated accounting software package developed by Intuit.

With over 5.6 million customers, QuickBooks offers copious help to the accounting staff of small and large business owners.

Their software can be used to manage sales and expenses and keep track of daily transactions by invoicing customers, paying bills, generating reports and more.

Integrating with FileMaker

For FileMaker users and developers who need an outside application, such as QuickBooks, to communicate with their FileMaker App, integration between FileMaker and the other application will help increase productivity and efficiency. Integration will allow the two applications to communicate with each other.

This will save users and/or developers tremendous amounts of effort.

If a user was using FileMaker along with an outside application, but did not have the two apps integrated, he or she constantly would end up doing double data entry from one system to the next.

Integration could be useful to companies with a unique workflow. Also, integrating FileMaker with QuickBooks could help companies that want their employees to have access to data on customers, items, inventory, payments, etc., while protecting the QuickBooks file.

Time to Innovate

With the release of the latest generation of FileMaker Cloud, Claris has taken a big leap into cloud-based infrastructure on the FileMaker platform.

However, using the name FileMaker Cloud, when there is another legacy version of FileMaker Cloud, as well as FileMaker Server on the cloud, things start to get confusing.

I’ll try and outline some of the key differences in this article.

The top 5 best FileMaker resources for developers, as told by a FileMaker expert with over 10 years of developing experience.

My favorite aspect of my job at MainSpring is discussing the myriad of great ideas that our clients have, and helping them turn those ideas into a solution. 

One of the biggest challenges in this process is helping people understand the value of starting off small—and that starting small is the first step toward achieving the ultimate goal. 

It’s easy to be entranced by your ideas and want to do everything immediately, but there are a number of definite advantages to starting off with the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). 

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