FileMaker Pro

FM Add-On Spotlight: Calendar Add-On and Comparison

In this edition of the spotlight, we’re taking a deep look at the Calendar. Prior to FileMaker 19.1, building a robust, native calendar interface in FileMaker typically required some form of repeating fields, portals, and/or list view, combined with multiple layered objects or layouts. With the Calendar Add-on, a calendar interface can be quickly added to any solution with very little hassle.

FileMaker and Ransomware

With the recent highly publicized attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS, we’ve had questions from some of our clients about protecting FileMaker data from ransomware attacks. While we are always careful to make it clear that we are not security professionals, we also try to do our best to answer our client’s questions, and so we have done some self-education recently as well as group discussions during our weekly developer meetings.

FileMaker Security Audit

One of our large clients brought in a security analysis firm, BlueOrane to perform a security analysis on all of their systems. BlueOrange found a number of security issues in the FileMaker solution, most of which were related to decisions made over the years to facilitate ease of administration and support of the application.

How Quick-Start Saves Time

The latest release of FileMaker Pro, 19.2.2, includes a few new developer tools as well as a revised quick-start experience. The quick-start experience is still in preview on MacOS only, but I had a chance to give it a whirl and I found some interesting use cases.

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