FileMaker 2023
25 April 2023 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : Blog, FileMaker, News, Technique, Video
FileMaker 2023 is available! an in-depth exploration. Claris just announced the immediate availability of the new version of FileMaker, FileMaker 2023. It has been a long time since we published a long article about a new version of FileMaker. The main reason to that was probably that numbering system in version 19 did not give [...]
FileMaker on Linux / Docker – Presentation at Kentuckiana Developers Group
5 August 2021 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : Blog, Conference, FileMaker, Video
A few weeks ago, Jonathan Fletcher was kind enough to invite Romain Dunand (@airmoi) and I (@FabriceN) to do a presentation at his Kentuckiana Developers Group. The topic was a comparison of all possible ways to host a FileMaker database, from local server to Virtual Private Server, to, of course, our fmcloud.fm Linux/Docker solution. If [...]
FileMaker Server on Linux: the fmcloud.fm 2.0 revolution
2 November 2020 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : Blog, FileMaker, News
You have to get used to it, with the new short release cycles of FileMaker, important new features are no longer necessarily on a fixed date with a new version number. It is therefore no longer enough, for those interested in the FileMaker platform, to set aside some time in May to inquire about the […]
FileMaker 19: get a list of IDs with Execute FileMaker Data API
27 August 2020 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : FileMaker, Technique, Video
[WARNING: this video is for advanced developers only and does not explain the details of the technique. It’s here to share an idea only, not code] One of my favorite features in FileMaker 19 is the new, undocumented script step, Execute FileMaker Data API. The FileMaker Data API used to be a FileMaker Server […]
FileMaker 19: Entering a New World
22 May 2020 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : Blog, FileMaker
FileMaker 19 has just been released, and there's a lot to be said about both the new features and the evolution of the platform in general. Rather than publishing a long video as we usually do, we thought a feature article made more sense this time. A few background elements first of all. Everything has [...]
FileMaker Inc. becomes Claris
7 August 2019 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : Conference, FileMaker, News
A quick note from Orlando, where 1-more-thing’s Romain Dunand and yours truly attend FileMaker DevCon’19, the annual FileMaker developer conference. Brad Freitag, the new CEO – who had previously held the position of sales manager for six years – made some sensational announcements at the inaugural keynote. The most striking is the name change of […]
dotfmp19
11 June 2019 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : Uncategorized
As every year in June, the dotfmp unconference took place in Berlin last week, and as every year, it was the best FileMaker events for geeks. Thank you so much, Egbert, for making this event so interesting and pleasant. 1-more-thing was there with 5 team members (Jean-Frédéric Struyven, Laurent Spielmann, Andries Heylen, Yann Trauchessec and [...]
Quick Find: the forgotten feature
26 September 2018 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : FileMaker, Technique
Released with FileMaker 11, more than 8 years ago in 2010, Quick Find is probably one of the most underestimated features in FileMaker. For some reason, there wasn’t even much emphasis in the product marketing when it was released. Platform evengelists would mention it as a ‘Google-like search engine within FileMaker’, product documentation said ‘search […]
Hierarchal Portals Using ExecuteSQL
27 March 2013 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : UncategorizedRecently, Doug West, Excelisys, published an interesting and simplified technique to manage hierarchal portals in FileMaker. Still, it relies on a data model that makes the handling of hierarchy difficult (move, duplicate, sort) or impossible (many-to-many relationships…) Here is an alternative based on the very same example (and the same data), using FileMaker 12 ExecuterSQL function, in […]
