Today, we are proud and excited to release Otto 3 into the world and share it with the Claris FileMaker Community.
Introducing Otto 3
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Towards A Better JavaScript Development Environment
Writing JavaScript in FileMaker is hard. Sure, the path is easy to see and clear to follow, but the actual writing of the code is hard. I have tried to find a way to write JS code that makes it fairly easy. And by “easy,” I mean “make it so that FileMaker developers...
A Bit More about Proof+Geist
By now you’ve all heard the earth-shaking news: the merger between the Proof Group and Geist Interactive. The new company, Proof+Geist (the ‘+’ is silent, by the way), brings together the best of The Proof Group and Geist Interactive. All that you know about those separate entities are now as one. Now led by Ernest Koe as CEO, Steve Ritchie as CFO, and Todd Geist as CTO, this new team of 20+ people is ready to use our technologies, products, knowledge, and skills to provide unparalleled service to our current clients, our future clients, and the Claris FileMaker community.
Something is Happening here at Geist Interactive
Hello there 🙂 We have some exciting news to share with you. Geist Interactive has merged with the Proof Group to form Proof+Geist (the + is silent). This is an acceleration of our decades-long mission of empowering people to do great things, a mission we have...
FileMaker add-on Found Set: Changing the Limit and Offset
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One Spark Academy 2020-2021 Giving Campaign
In normal years, when I get to travel around and speak to people about FileMaker, I am always gratified by how many of you in our community ask me about One Spark Academy, the non profit learning center that my wife Lori and I started in 2011. Many of you follow the...
In-Product Add-ons: A Few More Things
It's been a few weeks since the Claris FileMaker add-ons were put into the product. A lot has happened since then. People have explored them using the sample data and even their own. The community is now filled with questions about these new packages of functionality....
FileMaker 19: FileMaker Add-ons with Join Relationships
In Part 2 of All that we Know on Add-ons (part 1 is here), we talked about how to create add-ons that include a simple child relationship. The sole purpose of that add-on was to add a child table and have it automatically relate to the context of the layout in which...
Claris FileMaker Add-ons: Add-on Events
We're continuing our discussion of the new FileMaker 19 add-ons. Claris has released a great video on these add-ons, but, in this series of posts, we're taking a deep dive into how the add-ons work. In this post we look at the FileMaker add-on events. Each FileMaker...
Claris FileMaker Add-ons: Refreshing the Data
We're continuing our discussion of the new FileMaker 19 add-ons. Claris has released a great video on these add-ons, but, in this series of posts, we're taking a deep dive into how the add-ons work. In this post we look at how to use the FileMaker add-on refresh...
FileMaker Add-ons: Refetching To ReRender
We're continuing our discussion of the new FileMaker 19 add-ons. Claris has released a great video on these add-ons, but, in this series of posts, we're taking a deep dive into how the add-ons work. In this post we will examine the FileMaker add-on refetch process....
Claris FileMaker Add-ons: Using Multiple Instances
We're continuing our discussion of the new FileMaker 19 add-ons. Claris has released a great video on these add-ons, but, in this series of posts, we're taking a deep dive into how the add-ons work. In this post we look at how to use multiple instances of the...