Is Portage Bay a software development company that does project management?, or a project management company that happens to do custom FileMaker and 4th Dimension work? Interesting question. I often feel that our success as developers has as much to do with our skills in communications and project management than in the nitty gritty of writing code.
With the advent of Claris FileMaker 19, we are starting to see some new FileMaker add-ons, a brand new feature that is still technically “coming soon” according to Claris. One of the first products available for FileMaker using the new add-on architecture is the newly revised DayBack calendar product from Seedcode. We have been integrating the DayBack calendar for many years now and have seen the product evolve over time. This latest edition is taking advantage of many of the new FileMaker 19 capabilities, and has some really great new features. I’d like to go over some of the similarities and differences between “DayBack Classic” and DayBack 19 as well as benefits to upgrading.
Back when I was learning about the FileMaker Data API, I had trouble finding any information on how container data was handled. Oddly, the upload information in the Help documentation seemed far more complete than the download information, especially considering the download information isn’t even it’s own section. It’s a note in the URL And Data Format notes section. In essence, the note is: You will get a URL referencing the location of the container data, which is somewhere on the internet. You’re welcome. I ended up utilizing the Base64 Encode And Decode functions in a way that I’ll forever keep as a tool in my developer’s toolbox. If you’re not familiar with these functions, they easily convert images into text and vice versa.
Claris Connect is a new Claris product for automating common business processes. Create a simple Claris Connect ‘flow‘ and connect multiple applications in a short amount of time. Let Claris Connect do the heavy lifting and connect all of your business applications so they can communicate easily.
With FileMaker 16, Claris introduced the FileMaker Data API into the FileMaker development environment, giving us a powerful new tool for pushing and pulling data in and out of the FileMaker database engine.
Portage Bay’s Free Map Widget easily integrates Google Map with your FileMaker solution. The add-on allows you to display interactive location data utilizing Google’s Marker Clustering function along with callbacks to FileMaker.
How to use FileMaker to generate MySQL syntax and easily create matching tables in MySQL.
We’d like to welcome Nana Opoku to Portage Bay Solutions as our newest developer. ‘Jojo’ joins us as a senior level FileMaker developer and will be instrumental in helping with our backlog of Rest API projects.
When developing FileMaker solutions, one of the issues that always comes up is the lack of Version control options. How can you use Version control with FileMaker, and what is it? Read this article to find out.
