October Meetup Recap

AppWorks would like to thank everyone that attended our October FileMaker Portland Meetup. We munched on Thai food from Beau Thai while kicking off the meeting with a beginner question period, then launched into AppWorks’ new line of videos, called FileMaker Cool Tricks. We demonstrated the workarounds in the cool trick videos, and then opened […]

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FileMaker Server’s Default PHP Will Stop Receiving Security Updates

What’s happening? The default version of PHP that ships with FileMaker Server 17.0.4 up to 18.0.2 is 7.1.19. This particular version is no longer receiving active support and won’t receive any security updates starting on Dec 1st, 2019. Any version before FileMaker server 17.0.4 uses a version of PHP that is no longer supported. Running […]

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Data Separation and Account Security

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 […]

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