Category FileMaker Techniques

FileMaker’s built-in security features for accounts and privilege sets are flexible and robust enough to meet almost any need. There are times, however, when a particular scripted process needs to override an individual’s security access in order to complete its task. In most cases, the option to ‘Grant Full Access Privileges’ to individual scripts has met this need. (Note: this option should still be used sparingly and only when absolutely necessary.) There is, however, an instance where this doesn’t work as expected, and that’s with data separated apps.

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A new bug with FileMaker 18’s Send Mail script step has come up recently. This bug only occurs when sending email via SMTP server. It also only happens when using Gmail’s SMTP service. The bug is apparent when users attempting to Send Mail via SMTP encounter this pop-up:

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With the release of FileMaker Pro Advanced 18, full access users can delegate user management to any user. This tool reduces the administrative burden on database administrators, in addition to decreasing the response time when it comes to changes in user accounts. For example, the person(s) conducting employee onboarding/offboarding can now create, edit or delete users. Additionally, someone like an office manager would now be able to reset user passwords instead of sending a request to a database administrator.

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Apple released FileMaker Pro Advanced 18 on May 22, 2019. AppWorks delved into FileMaker 18 in search of new functionality, and we were far from disappointed. Read on for our favorite shiny new features and changes in version 18.

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FileMaker 18 offers a series of new script steps that add native file creation and manipulation to the developer’s toolkit. The utility of these new script steps will be fully realized once people start using them, but right away I can foresee some great use cases. Write records to a text file for import into another system? Generate an HTML document? Custom local log files? All are possible with these new script steps.

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