Learning Claris FileMaker

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.

RESTfm is a way of accessing your FMS hosted data. REST is a commonly used architecture so lots of other products and services already have methods for interacting with Web Services.

Using RESTfm means you can make your FMS data tables accessible to these other products without any extra coding or work.

Read how you can leverage it on Blackframe.com.au ...

The FileMaker Platform is a workplace innovation platform that welcomes and includes code & tech from anywhere.

Pause[x]include is an Unconference for people who are blazing trails in this new inclusive world, defined by FileMaker and X, where X = javascript, web services, big data, IOT & just about anything else you can imagine.

Bring your cross-device multilingual apps & tech to Tulum, an ancient center of trade, commerce & culture, and join Unconference sessions that welcome you to share in your own language: English, Spanish, Japanese, JSON, NoSQL, Python, etc. Simultaneous translation is available from multilingual translators via multiple chat channels.

... showing how FileMaker's role in this future it to act a central information hub for a variety of web services: FileMaker to Slack, Dropbox, Trello, MailChimp, ZenDesk and back. Automatically.

And that is just the beginning

Virtually all cloud based solutions allow the use of web services to setup two, automatic services between themselves and a client app, such as a custom FileMaker App.

Armed with the knowledge shared by Colangelo, a FileMaker developer can send and receive information from a FileMaker "information hub" app, combining the best parts of the FileMaker (ease of use, Rapid Application Development, lower entry level cost, more easily changed) with world class productivity tools already used by millions of businesses.

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