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Bar Fight Topic #12: To Plug-in, Or Not To Plug-in

There is a category of disagreement on the earth I like to call “Bar Fight Topics”. These are the things that can turn perfectly happy friends and business partners against each other, with the help of a third wheel often known as Jack Daniels.

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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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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.

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JavaScript in Web Viewers

I love JavaScript, and there are two new features in Claris FileMaker Pro 19 that have gotten me really excited. This last week, I finally had a chance to play with these features and discovered that Claris has quite outdone themselves in how they have allowed FileMaker developers to harness the inherent power of JavaScript.

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FM19 Add-On Spotlight: Photo Gallery

Have you ever wanted to view your Claris FileMaker photos in a full-screen tile view or use a gallery of images as an interactive user interface? Traditionally, native image management within the Claris FileMaker environment has been limited, but the new Photo Gallery Add-On looks to change that.

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Claris Connect – Callback URL’s in FileMaker Triggers

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.

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