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Let’s talk about building web UIs, JavaScript functions and new integrations for Claris FileMaker and Claris Pro.
Learn how you can manage various stages of the web integration process with the open source bzBond.
Formstack takes your FileMaker® data collection to the next level! Our integration guide includes a video and sample files to get you started! In an increasingly paperless world, you rely on digital documents, e-signatures, and online forms to quickly engage with your community. Formstack makes it simple! Formstack can automate document creation, collect secure signatures, and drive your data collection with astonishingly customizable forms. And with over 100 prebuilt integrations, it's easy to understand why over 27,000 companies trust Formstack to get their data where it belongs. Your FileMaker® app is no exception – Formstack's powerful webhooks make integrating Formstack with FileMaker a breeze. Download our sample file, then follow along with the video and article to see just easy it can be to reimagine your FileMaker data collection!
Apple is releasing Apple School Manager integration with Claris Connects to automatically provision Managed Apple IDs with SIS vendors.
Walmart is the largest retailer in the world with $485.9 billion in total revenue in 2017, and reaches over 100 million users a month on Walmart.com. This makes Walmart a useful tool to expand your customer base. And with FileMaker, you can streamline the process of working with Walmart.com by integrating your FileMaker app with Walmart Marketplace. Read more on the blog (+video)
You can use FileMaker Pro to improve business operations by creating information dashboards, and when you add Tableau to the mix they can be even more powerful. ... Regardless of skill level, anyone can benefit from these clear and simple guidelines on when to use FileMaker and when to use Tableau. You'll also explore real-world examples with samples files.
If you’ve been working with FileMaker, then I don’t have to sell you on the fact that it’s a great solution to help you manage your data. Whether you’re an in-house developer, a consultant, or just starting to explore what is possible with this powerful platform, you will at some point come across the need to build in some kind of dashboard. Maybe your group needs to see sales trends for the last year or perhaps you have a system that tracks projects and want to see the daily average of tasks completed. In either case, dashboards are a great way to synthesize large amounts of information and provide you with insight in a simple and informative visual design. ... FileMaker, a popular tool used by small to medium size workgroups, is a great platform for data gathering, curation, and sharing. It offers a great deal of flexibility and FileMaker, Inc. is continually investing in keeping the application modern (you can check out the roadmap here). As a rapid application development tool with an approachable scripting language, there is no other tool that comes close – and Tableau is FileMaker’s creative and visual cousin! FileMaker has some built in charts that serve their purpose, but Tableau’s ability to compliment FileMaker, visually, takes the platform to another level. What it allows you to do with just a few clicks is extremely impressive, and the product continues to evolve at a rapid pace. ... Read more and explore the sample files on the blog ...
The Web Viewer Integrations library is meant to give you the ability to extract something from this file and push it into your own solution in a relative easy few steps. The difficult process of working each integration out for FileMaker has been resolved, and the step-by-step guide will help you bring any of these into your own custom app. After building this file, I implemented the photo album into a client’s file. The process took about 30 minutes to fully set up the integration.
Let’s take a look and review how to push from the library to your own custom app. Read more on the blog ...
The Web Viewer Integrations library is a file meant for anyone’s use in their own learning and as a resource for deeper, richer functionality to any custom app. But it does take a moment to walk through to learn how it is set up.
The library is set up to give you the ability to find an integration that you need and push it into your own custom app with very little effort. As a test, I was able to push the photo album into a client’s app in about 30 minutes. That time includes setting up the table structure, importing the code and revising the script for the specific app. One-half hour is not bad for a slick-looking photo album.
Let’s walk through the file and let me acquaint you with it. Read more on the blog
I seem to have developed an obsession with the web viewer in FileMaker. That fact is surprising because it was only three years ago that I knew nothing about the object. Back then, I decided that, while continuing to learn FileMaker, I’d start to learn how to do more in my custom apps with the the languages of the web. Every chance I got, I’d try to implement a Google map or a chart either into a project or in a simple demo file. At first it was painfully slow; trying to get a chart into FileMaker via the web viewer was too complex and was overkill in the time spent on the implementation. Never one to back away from a challenge, I pushed through, and eventually, it became much easier. The object became more fun to work with, and I pushed myself to try and do more with it.
In Part 3 of this series we’ll look into the options when you can’t use ESS and how you can still go about integrating your online shop with your FileMaker CRM.
Over the last two years, Apple has quietly but steadily made big progress with Swift, its super-popular programming language for iPhone apps, lauded as both faster and more elegant than anything else out there.
It's definitely Apple's most visible play around appealing to developers. But it's not its first:
Since 1987, wholly-owned Apple subsidiary FileMaker has been selling database software to help make it easy for small businesses to make their own apps for computers, the web, and more recently, smartphones. ...
fmAccounting Link (MYOB AccountRight Edition) is a FileMaker solution that integrates between FileMaker Pro and the MYOB AccountRight Accounting Software.
AccountRight is powerful accounting, with business management capabilities.
Flexible to work off or online. fmAccounting Link (MYOB AccountRight Edition) allows you to upload and download data between FileMaker and AccountRight via their API (Application Programming Interface). fmAccounting Link (MYOB AccountRight Edition) is completely unlocked allowing you to integrate it into your existing FileMaker solution.
No more double data entry in FileMaker and MYOB AccountRight – save your Company time and money.
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Like most of the world I have spent large chunks of the past 18 month living in lockdown and working remotely from home. I’m currently in week 7 of another lockdown here in Sydney, Australia … As well as the standard video meetings Zoom also has a number of other products including Zoom Webinars where you can host online webinars/presentations to much larger audiences. This means you will also be generating a lot of new data, including: - Webinar Details
- Lists of People who Registered
- Lists of People who Attended
At some point you are going to want to get some of that Zoom data into your FileMaker business app so you can then follow up with registrants/attendees or update existing records with the details of the webinars they have attended. Luckily Zoom has ... Read for more on the blog !
Use the MySQL Remoting feature of the JDBC driver to integrate Dropbox data in Filemaker Pro for Mac or Windows.
This article shows how to use the CData JDBC Driver for Dropbox to integrate with the External SQL Sources (ESS) feature in FileMaker Pro, which allows you to link records in FileMaker Pro with related records in your other operational data stores. You will use the MySQL Remoting feature to access Dropbox as a remote MySQL database.
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.
... The software world is not simple. You can’t just buy one software package and expect to run your entire business with it and be as effective, productive, and profitable as possible. With FileMaker in your toolbox operating as a digital information hub at the center of your software solution you get the advantages of owning all your data, being able to connect to nearly any other software tool, customizing your workflow however you want, and doing so cost effectively across platforms including macOS, Windows, web, and mobile.
It’s here and I feel like I have to tell the whole world… which is what I am doing! Now that FileMaker 16 is officially announced, there are lots of exciting things to talk about that are now possible. I think one of the most powerful new features that have been introduced in version 16 is the capability to integrate with other applications or services. There is so much to talk about what now becomes possible with FileMaker and other services/applications. ... In this regard, the combination of FileMaker and Tableau make Tableau one of the most compelling tools for integration with FileMaker. ... Read more on Beezwax blog
What’s the key to getting the most out of Sage?If you or your team waste time every day re-entering customer data from spreadsheets or siloed systems into Sage: there’s a better way. Hundreds of businesses like yours have embraced rapid application development, boosted productivity, reduced expenses, and put an end to data errors by connecting Sage to custom apps built on the FileMaker Platform. Read this eBook to learn how. Download the Sage+FileMaker integration eBook and get more done; eliminate duplicate data, centralise knowledge, and implement processes that fit your business.
The FileMaker Web Viewer Integrations library is a great source for deeper functionality for your custom app. There are 22 web integrations that might be a great solution for a use case you’re trying to solve for yourself or for a client. For example, you can use the “Google Auto-Complete Address” integration to use the power of Google to get the exact full address as the user starts to type it in as shown in Figure 1.
That is extremely handy. Read more on the blog
In the previous post, I introduced to you the Web Viewer Integrations Library, a labor of obsession and passion around the web viewer object. It has been a lot of fun to put together, and I am glad to be able to share it.
In this post, I want to review the data structure of this library, how the file is set up to make these integrations happen.
Two Worlds.
Infinite Possibilities.
LiveCode and FileMaker. The world's easiest data driven app builder meets the world's only native app building platform for everyone. Some possibilities :
In Part 2 we showed how you eliminate any double data entry by making your online store visible to your FileMaker solution by using the ESS (External SQL Data Sources) feature of FileMaker Pro/Server, allowing users to see online orders on a normal FileMaker layout. ...
Many of our (Databuzz) small business customers have both a physical presence and an online presence when it comes to selling their goods and services. They might have:
- a physical retail store where customers can come and purchase goods in person
- a mail order store where they take orders by mail, phone and fax and send the goods to the purchaser once they have paid
- an online store which takes orders, processes the credit card transactions and notifies the business to fulfil the orders
- a popup store/market store that runs every month or for short periods of time
When the business is starting up, or when they are adding a new method of selling goods and services, the tendency is for each of these stores to operate as their own silo.
This ultimately leads to a lot of data duplication/double entry in multiple systems as the business deals with orders coming in from multiple store presences.
Quite often we see the following workflow: - physical and mail order/phone orders are processed in the central office FileMaker CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solution
- online/eCommerce orders are processed via the online store attached to the customer’s website. The business is notified of new orders via email and these are then entered into the central office CRM system by customer service staff who then notify the accounts department to create an accounting entry in Xero or MYOB etc.
We wouldn’t generally recommend to customer’s that they use FileMaker to run their online eCommerce store, so there’s no problem with having the physical presence and the online presence separate (and it’s highly advisable from a security standpoint). However this leads to the problem of scattered information and ad hoc processes – wouldn’t it be better if all the information was in one place and you could see all the physical orders and online orders from the central FileMaker CRM? Could you save time and increase productivity by not having to manually re-enter all the online orders in both the main FileMaker CRM as well as your accounting software? ...
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