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Learn how to seamlessly integrate Claris FileMaker with Stripe for powerful online invoicing solutions.
We dive into the details on how to harness the full potential of combining FileMaker features with Stripe's online payment capabilities to build a more efficient invoicing solution. Includes sample file and video.
In 2016, Google announced that Gmail has over 1 billion monthly active users. Many companies even leverage Gmail to set up accounts using their company domain name.
If you have a FileMaker CRM, or are wanting to have one, adding your email correspondence will help improve the visibility you have over communications with contacts.
In this article we will demonstrate how you can import your HTML emails from Gmail directly into your FileMaker system for better collaboration for your team.
Integrating SignNow with your FileMaker solution makes sending virtual documents an easy task. Includes a video and sample file.
When it comes to sending important legally binding documents, no application does it as well as SignNow.
With over 28 million users in more than 20 different industries using the enterprise-grade eSigning platform, it's no wonder so many businesses rely on it.
This guide will show you how you can begin sending customized documents, as we walk you through this jam-packed tutorial. Integrating SignNow with your FileMaker solution makes sending virtual documents an easy task.
Shopify is used by more than a million businesses in over 175 countries, including Nestle and Staples, making it one of the leading e-commerce companies in the world.
By integrating FileMaker and Shopify, you have the ability to easily create, update, and delete nearly all aspects of your online business straight from your FileMaker system.
Running Shopify from your existing FileMaker solution can save you time and money by eliminating the pain of double data entry and can keep the two constantly up-to-date.
There inevitably comes a time in a successful FileMaker application’s life where it needs to be extended to the web, usually as a customer portal.
WebDirect may suffice as a solution, but if the needs go beyond WebDirect’s capabilities, standard web technologies must be used, such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, and a backend scripting language like PHP.
Building an app on the web can be a daunting task for a FileMaker developer, especially a web app that’s as interactive and responsive as a FileMaker app.
Luckily, there are Javascript frameworks available to simplify and speed up the process of developing highly dynamic web apps, frameworks such as React, Angular, and Vue.js.
For FileMaker developers we recommend Vue.js as it has many parallels to the way FileMaker works that makes it easier to pick up, and because it’s a progressive framework, it can be used as little or as much as you want.
And Vue is not only useful for web portals: you can use Vue inside a web viewer to extend what’s possible on a FileMaker layout such as tree views, horizontal portals and cross tab reports.
In this article, we’ll go over the different concepts of Vue.js and how these provide some of the interactivity that FileMaker developers expect out-of-the-box with a development platform, and in the video, we’ll show you how to make a simple HTML editor using Vue that runs in a web viewer in FileMaker.
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One of the more important tools in development is being able to save or compare different versions of your application.
This allows for quick and easy identification of any changes, lets developers make rapid updates in small and clear steps, plus can provide the ability to share or reuse code, layouts, and other elements with minimal effort.
Using the new Save a Copy as XML feature in FileMaker, this critical functionality can be implemented via a single click or through scripting as a replacement of the previous Database Design Report (DDR).
Taking this XML and using a diff tool, organizations will be able to track changes between versions of their FileMaker application.
For many years FileMaker Server has automatically logged errors in server side scripts, but now with FileMaker 18 developers have to ability to log script errors client side in FileMaker Pro and Go, saving time troubleshooting issues with scripts.
And with the new file manipulation script steps, developers can automatically import script error logs into a centralized table to quickly view errors across all clients.
A new and exciting version of the FileMaker platform is here! 2019 marks over 34 years for the FileMaker platform.
In this article we review what’s new in the FileMaker platform, specifically for FileMaker Pro Advanced 18, FileMaker Server 18, FileMaker Go 18, and FileMaker Cloud for AWS.
We highlight some of our favorite new features with in-depth content with videos and sample files. With this release FileMaker continues to prove to be the Workplace Innovation Platform leader.
Among the ensemble of new things to play with, FileMaker 18 brings with it a collection of security enhancements.
Some of these changes include a redesigned Manage Security dialog aimed towards improved ease of use, an ability to manage FileMaker users without the need to have Full Access privileges, and a security warning for potentially malicious plug-ins.
OneDrive and Microsoft Office 365 is one of the most popular business software packages and services on the planet.
Its reach has expanded 238% since 2014 and 81% since 2016.
And with the Microsoft OneDrive API, integrating has never been easier.
OneDrive is excellent for sharing documents with other people without giving them access to your FileMaker system and allows for editing files without the hassle of downloading, editing, then re-uploading.
We will walk through how to use the Microsoft OneDrive API to upload documents, list documents in a folder, and download documents, allowing your documents to be stored and shared easily in the cloud to keep your FileMaker database lean and mean.
Integrating FileMaker with ChatGPT can increase automation and efficiency without sacrificing the human-like feel.
Includes demo file and video.
If you keep track of the latest trends in technology or are obsessed with the Terminator franchise, then you've probably asked yourself, "Where will AI be in the next five years?"
We've seen Artificial Intelligence used to generate artwork, improve patient treatment, detect insurance fraud, and much, much more.
The latest entry into this trove of excitement is OpenAI's ChatGPT. Released in November 2022, ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) is a language model designed to produce conversation-style results for its users.
Because of its conversational nature, a ChatGPT integration with your FileMaker solution has the potential to increase your automation and efficiency without sacrificing the human-like feel.
When creating a #FileMaker solution, it’s important to consider the app's purpose and projected user pool.
Learn how to set up FileMaker #dashboards for best performance to gain a fast, user-friendly way to present data without the need for slow and bulky found sets.
Learn how to set up FileMaker dashboards for best performance. Includes a video and sample file.
As one of the top email marketing platform, Salesforce Marketing Cloud provides the ability to create marketing email campaigns that scale from a handful of customers to millions.
And 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.
When sending emails to customers, it can often help get their attention by adding a bit of design and creativity to what could otherwise be a boring block of text.
With FileMaker you can now send HTML emails without the need for 3rd-party plugins, making upgrading FileMaker easier.
Let’s take a look at how to send native HTML emails using FileMaker.
Included in the release of FileMaker 18 are some new exciting file manipulation scripts steps giving developers the ability to create and edit data files without plugins, saving time and making upgrading FileMaker in the future easier.
The following are the new script steps for data files:
Close Data Fie Create Data File Delete File Get Data File Position Get File Exists Get File Size Open Data File Read from Data File Rename File Set Data File Position Write to Data File
Let’s take a look at how to use these script steps.
Zabbix, one of the largest free and open source server monitor applications with 300,000 installations worldwide, can be used to collect and display metrics from multiple FileMaker servers at once on one interface; therefore, giving you the ability to save time monitoring servers individually.
Viewable from a web browser on a central dashboard, these metrics are displayed as charts, graphs, alerts, and reports with information fed in by the machines monitored by Zabbix.
Furthermore, when issues are triggered by the monitored machines, notifications can be sent out. Let’s take a look at how to set up Zabbix to monitor your FileMaker servers.
Sometimes smallest features offer the biggest impact.
The new While function, which gives the ability to loop within a calculation, drastically reduces the need for one-off recursive custom functions, speeding up development in any part of FileMaker that requires looping in a calculation.
FileMaker Server 18 brings some exciting database improvements in the form of faster processing of parallel queries and automatically recovering corrupt databases when the server starts up using a transactional log.
This auto-correction feature, called Startup Restoration, will save significant time and headaches during disaster recovery of a FileMaker application.
Both updates are intertwined within Startup Restoration, which means that added speed and stability are packaged together.
If you currently hand type your business’s envelopes, letters, and other complex documents like proposals and legal forms, you would greatly benefit from using mail merge.
Mail merging, the process of filling in a template document with records from a data source, saves countless hours of double data entry and reduces human error; instead of typing out each recipient’s information, Microsoft Word (or another similar word processor) automatically does all the work for you.
In addition it is possible to create mail merges with records from your FileMaker system to save even more time.
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