Learning Claris FileMaker

I recently saw an article about creating Org Charts from FileMaker in OmniGraffle.

OmniGraffle is a great program, but it is Mac-only and costs money.

I thought to myself: “Myself, I says, I could probably figure out how to do this for free!”

So I proceeded to spend way too long (six hours or more) making this work, using the Google Chart API Javascript library to generate a decent looking Org Chart right in FileMaker Pro. 

Then to make it more useful, I figured out how to use FileMaker 16’s fmpurl script capabilites to do call backs into FileMaker Pro.

An example of how to publish and manipulate hierarchical data from FileMaker to OmniGraffle.

Interactive org-chart creation (iOS & macOS) using Omni Automation and FileMaker scripting!