Modernizing a Legacy FileMaker Solution
Our client, a landscape architecture firm, turned to us to upgrade their in-house solution from FileMaker 5.5. As the business evolved, the issue with the legacy system became a significant bottleneck.
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Announcing the Release of FileMaker 2024
The much-anticipated FileMaker 2024 release is finally here, bringing a host of marvelous features, including AI and semantic search, to improve your business operations and drive success. Download your free trial of FileMaker 2024 now and get a first-hand feel for these new features.
Want To Hire A FileMaker Developer? Get Insight From An Insider’s Perspective
I’m going to use a construction analogy here … would you hire a builder who was building their first house?
12 Valuable Ways to Modernize your FileMaker Database
When I meet people and tell them I build custom apps in FileMaker, the number of people who recall the platform from years and years ago with a nostalgic smile is impressive. Perhaps the loyalty FileMaker users have toward the platform is an important reason Claris FileMaker has thrived for so long. Along with PowerPoint and Microsoft Word, FileMaker stands with some of the few software applications nearing 40 years old. It has become a software platform that has stood the test of time. But in today’s age, your FileMaker Pro database management system is no longer a stand-alone solution. It needs to become the hub to connect your existing business applications and integrate them with custom solutions in the cloud.
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.
Top Call Statistics: What’s Been Your Experience?
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.
Creating A COVID-19-Safe Signing System For FileMaker Go
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.”
FileMaker Top Calls Log Analysis
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.
FileMaker Admin API solutions: Review & comparison
A review and comparison of FileMaker Server Admin API solutions.