The FileMaker Data API is one of the most powerful integration points in a Claris FileMaker solution. It exposes hosted databases over a standard REST interface, letting external systems create, read, update, delete, and find records using HTTP and a session token. Flip the switch in Admin Console > Connectors, add the “fmrest” extended privilege to a privilege set, and you are in business.
FileMaker 2026 includes several improvements to FileMaker Server and Cloud that provide greater uptime, improved performance consistency, and simplified administration.
FileMaker Cloud typically trails slightly behind its on-premise sibling, FileMaker Server, in the upgrade release cycle. With the 2025 release, FileMaker Cloud now stands shoulder-to-shoulder with FileMaker Server 2025—offering the same feature set, performance, and security, plus a few Cloud-only advantages.
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.
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.
Due to COVID-19, we recently had to invent a way to sign forms on-site without sharing devices. Part of the conversation went like this:
He thought for a minute and replied, “Here’s what we’ll do. We’ll make a way for a user to sign a form without ever touching the iPad. How about we create a record just for signatures? We can send a link out to the client that will open a WebDirect interface. It would present them their signature record on their own device, and boom! Touch-free signatures.”
“Brilliant!” I said happily. “Let’s go! I’ll grab some pizza.”
The top call stats log was introduced in FileMaker 15 and when we first heard about it we were excited about the possibilities of using it to track down where the bottlenecks might be in our solutions and where to go prospecting for performance optimization opportunities.
A review and comparison of FileMaker Server Admin API solutions.
