FileMaker QuickBooks Mac Integration

FileMaker QuickBooks Mac Integration

We love FileMaker. We love QuickBooks Online. We also love Macs, and that proved to be a problem. The existing solutions for connecting FileMaker to Quickbooks Online required a Windows PC. The combination of FileMaker QuickBooks Mac was a problem. We decided to...

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FileMaker Session Model Video

FileMaker Session Model Video

(Thanks to Naomi Fujimoto, you can read this post in Japanese) Way back before FileMaker 7, Colleen Hammersly from Data Waves, and Wendy King came up with something called the "FileMaker Separation Model". Part of that model...

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FileMaker Selector Connector Video

FileMaker Selector Connector Video

Updated 11/24/2014 ( see below for whats changed ) Update 2/24/15 -  Jason Young wrote a great blog post about using Selector Connector with Seedcode Complete. Wasn't this called Universal Context? This is a video of what was the Universal...

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FileMaker Master Detail 2.0 Video

FileMaker Master Detail 2.0 Video

MasterDetail 2.0 has been released with a few new features.  MasterDetail 1.0 was a big hit when it was released over a year ago. In this version, we added support for up to 5 fields in the found set, virtual triggers, and automatic found set...

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Virtual FileMaker Script Triggers

Virtual FileMaker Script Triggers

Regular FileMaker Script Triggers Regular FileMaker script triggers fire at times that the FileMaker engine defines.  You are probably familiar with these, but if you aren't I would recommend reading up them, here and here.  In...

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Barcode Creator wins Commercial Product of the Year

Barcode Creator wins Commercial Product of the Year

I am so excited to announce that Barcode Creator won FBA Commercial Product of the Year at the 2014 FileMaker Developers Conference. This is a huge honor, and we couldn't be more proud.  In fact, we have decided to keep DevCon going for one more week.  Everybody come...

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Syncing FileMaker Found Sets with GoZync 5

Syncing FileMaker Found Sets with GoZync 5

GoZync 5 was just released, YAY!. We made some changes to how filtering works to take advantage of some new features that came with FileMaker 13. In this video we cover how filtering works when you are syncing FileMaker with GoZync 5 Why Filters...

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Insert From URL Methods And Headers

Insert From URL Methods And Headers

I needed to figure out what method and headers Insert from URL sent when making requests.  Insert from URL supports a number of different protocols, now.  The two that I was interested in were "http" and "httppost".  Here is what I found. Why? I am interested in...

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Printing Barcodes with FileMaker

Printing Barcodes with FileMaker

I have had a couple of customers of our Barcode Creator product ask me about printing Barcodes.  I referred them to FileMaker's help on creating label layouts. But there are a couple of oddities about the FileMaker 13 label wizard so I thought I...

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FileMaker MD5 Hash Function

FileMaker MD5 Hash Function

FileMaker 13 shipped with a new function called GetContainerAttribute().  The function is ostensibly about container fields and their contents. It was designed to let you query the metadata that is often stored along with images; things like...

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Announcing GoDraw v2

Announcing GoDraw v2

FileMaker Drawing Tool We are very excited to release GoDraw v2.0 today.  GoDraw is a full featured drawing editor that you can easily add to your FileMaker applications. You can give your users the ability to draw on or annotate images, photos, and diagrams. Or you...

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Checklist For Moving FileMaker Code

Checklist For Moving FileMaker Code

Whenever you move FileMaker code from one file to another, you need to do things in the right order. If you follow this checklist everything will work correctly when it is in the new file.  Some of this stuff you can copy and paste or import. The rest you will have to...

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