Archives May 2017

For FileMaker Talk Podcast Episode 134 Vince Menanno discusses Tableau and the integration within FileMaker 16 with Matt Navarre.

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Matt Navarre and Matt Petrowsky (aka Matt Squared) talk about the new FileMaker 16 release and what it means for FileMaker developers around the globe. Looking for that deep dive into what the new features mean? Have a listen to this particular episode.

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One of the new features in FileMaker 16 is the ability to set an external data source dynamically by using a variable.

So, what does that do?  How does it work? What does that mean for FileMaker development?

What it Means

It provides the ability to have multiple customers share a user interface file but each have their own data files.

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With the release of version 16, FileMaker developers finally have the ability to natively pass and parse multiple script parameters . This is made possible by the new JSON functions — specifically, the JSONSetElement function and the JSONGetElement function. There are various methods and syntaxes FileMaker developers have been using for passing multiple parameters to and from scripts, but the most common one I’ve come across is key-value pairs in the format “key1 = value1 ; key2 = value2 ; key3 = value3” etc. This is a nice simple format, but it has some limitations. The new method in 16 is to pass a JSON object, with a series of elements that form the key-value pairs, and parse those elements out of the JSON object in the sub script.

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