Claris Connect Archives

Introducing Office Hours

Visit our Office Hours page to get the Zoom links. Every first and third Thursdays, from 1pm – 2pm Pacific, we’ll be “in the office” with you to discuss various technical topics regarding Claris products. Topics will be based off of our technical blog posts or other aspects related to FileMaker and Claris Connect. You are welcome to bring your other tech questions as well. Attendance is free and the invitation is open to all experience levels. We look forward to the discussions!

Comparing Claris Connect and other iPaaS Systems

John Newhoff

iPaaS stands for ‘Integration Platform as a Service’ and if that isn’t one of the less clear product categories around, I don’t know what is. Everyone knows what a coffee vendor sells, but what does an iPaaS vendor provide?

10 FileMaker Quick Tips

Brandynn Stanford

To start the year off right, here’s 10 quick FileMaker Pro tips to optimize your daily workflow and improve your FileMaker experience. I wish I would have known these a lot sooner!

Our Thoughts on Heading Into a New Year!

Brandynn Stanford

It’s time for moving on from the holidays and towards Auld Lang Syne and new year wishes. We’ve collected some personal and business reflections from our team to wrap up this past year while looking forward to the next, and we wanted to offer them to our readers as well. Through all of the ups and downs that life tends to bring, we continue to be grateful for connections made, experiences gathered, and lessons learned and shared. Thank you for being a part of the Portage Bay Solutions sphere. We wish you & your families a very Happy New Year!

Thumbnail for Claris Connect QuickBooks Connector YouTube video, with Claris Connect and QuickBooks logos

Claris Connect: QuickBooks Intro

Brandynn Stanford

Every month, on the third Wednesday at 12pm Pacific, we host an online Meetup focused on Claris Connect. One aspect of the Meetup features a “Connector of the Month”, and Brad Stanford recently shared an introduction to the QuickBooks connector. We hope you’ll enjoy watching the video and seeing how you might begin to incorporate QuickBooks with your solution.

Top Call Statistics: What’s Been Your Experience?

Brandynn Stanford

We recently had an opportunity to make a solid, real-life comparison of Top Call Statistics enabled versus disabled in a user-heavy, multi-office solution. We’ll describe our scenario and observations in the remainder of this article.

Claris Connect – Callback URL’s in FileMaker Triggers

John Newhoff

I’ve been working with Claris Connect more and more recently and just this past week was working on a new flow to allow us to send email via MailGun from our FileMaker solutions. We know we can send mail via the Send Mail script step – which works great in most situations – but there are times when we are sending a ‘developer only’ email and the Send Mail script step requires us to embed SMTP credentials.

We Invite You to Join Our Claris Connect Meetup

Brandynn Stanford

Having had time to explore Claris Connect ourselves, we agree that it is living up to its promises and is a delight to work with. Portage Bay Solutions has nearly thirty years of experience creating FileMaker and 4th Dimension solutions and we’ve found Claris Connect to be an attractive, intuitive, and helpful option for many of our solutions. Because of our experience with these expanded capabilities, and our desire to keep learning and help others learn about Connect, we have launched a Claris Connect Meetup and we invite you to join.