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Claris Engage 2020 is over, but the good times and reminiscing is not. We at Geist Interactive are still celebrating the event with a once-in-a-year 20% off Sale. Check it out.Todd spoke in two sessions. His first was on JS and Add-ons. His second was a panel about add-ons. They're found in the Claris AcademyThe Solving FM Use Cases with JavaScript on-demand sessions (9 videos) is up now in the Claris Academy. Find "Engage On-Demand" and click on the "Integration" section.Stephen Dolenski and Steven H. Blackwell 's paper called: The NEw Add-on Feature: Caveats, Cautions, and Nuances 1.0.1 . There's a lot of great info here about what to consider.
Today's episode is brought to you by LedgerLink.We've got a lot of information coming up about the topics covered in this episode. Stay tuned to Geist Interactive's blog site for those posts.Here's some details and learning resources (more to come at www.geistinteractive.com): JavaScript contains Synchronous and Asynchronous functions. The new FileMaker.PerformScript() function is only available on the window. https://www.1-more-thing.com/javascript-performscript/ A community post about JavaScript running asynchronously. A community post about making sure the FileMaker object is loaded. FMwutils library. Todd will be leading a webinar about JavaScript for Claris. Modernize your apps with data visualization, maps, calendars and more.Open up a new universe with Claris FileMaker apps and JavaScript. Learn why JavaScript is such a good fit for the Claris FileMaker 19 open platform. See several compelling business examples, and find out how you will be able to use JavaScript add-ons for things like kanban boards, calendars, photo editors, animated graphics, and more. The possibilities are virtually endless.Best of all, you don't need to know JavaScript.You will learn:• What JavaScript brings to the Claris FileMaker.• The advantages of FileMaker custom apps built with JavaScript add-ons vs. SasS alternatives.• How to get started with helpful resources.Join us for this 45-minute webinar lead by Todd Geist, Geist Interactive, a Platinum Claris Partner. The presentation will include an overview, demo, and a Q&A session.Note: this presentation will be in English only.Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2020Duration: 45 minutesTimes: 8:00 AM PT, 11:00 AM ET, 3:00 PM GMT, 17:00 CETRSVP now >https://content.claris.com/amr-webinar-fm-javascript-06232020-reg-8amTimes: 4:00 PM PT, 7:00 PM ET, 9:00 AM AEST (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)RSVP now >https://content.claris.com/amr-webinar-fm-javascript-06232020-reg-4pm
Jason Creager is of Geist Interactive.Lisette Wilson is the CEO of Informing Designs.Bryn Behrenshausen works in-house and is in the Claris Community.
The Geist Interactive team: Todd Geist, Dave Graham, Jeremy Brown, Barbara Cooney, and Jason Creager have a holiday party virtually. We talk holiday traditions and what we've learned and what we're ready for next year.
Today's episode is brought to you by Geist Interactive. Hire us to complete tasks or provide advice or customize one of our products.Our guests today are Susan Fennema, the chaos-killing, clutter-kicking, disorder-fighting maven of Beyond the ChaosVanessa Costanzo, Director, Business Development & Technology at Recruiting Pro Software LLCSusan and Vanessa are part of the leadership team for Women Innovating Together, a nonprofit that serves Women in the FileMaker world.Here's the list of topics we talked about: Scholarships. WIT provides scholarships to women each year for the Claris conference. People can donate to the scholarship fund anytime of the year WIT also offers mentorships for anyone. You can sign up and be a mentor or a mentee. WIT can be supported by FBA partners through donations or encouraging staff to sign up.
Today's episode is brought to you by FMPerception. The only realtime developer intelligence tool for FileMaker. Download a free 14-day trial at www.fmperception.comIf you're a nonprofit, Geist Interactive offers a discount for you. Email us at support@geistinteractive.com for further details.----In this episode we talk with the leaders of join::table and hear of their vision for the organization. The leaders are Makah Encarnacao (Soliant Consulting), Chris Kubica (Application Architects), and Jonathan Nicoletti (Acolyte Applications). We talk about FileMaker developers and non-profit organizations can get involved in the match up.It's interesting to see that join::table wants to structure the projects as any normal project: single developers or a team, people from different experience levels and expertise coming together to give some time to a nonprofit who wants to use FileMaker to innovate in their workplace.join::table is looking for nonprofits that need FileMaker or a workplace innovation platform and need developers to build them something. So please inquire if you need.FBA partners can support the work of join::table in a variety of ways.Stay tuned to the end for a little 'post-credits' bit. ☺
Host Jeremy BrownFeaturing Todd Geist, Founder & CEO of Geist InteractiveSponsored by WidgetStudio by Geist Interactive. Find or Create. Customize. Deploy FileMaker WebViewer Widgets"The Context" PodcastThis very first episode features Jeremy and Todd talking about the podcast itself: why is it named "The Context" and what we will talk about in future episodes. Jeremy talks about the name itself: as we were finding the name, "Context" really stood out because context is what we think about each day build a custom app. It's all about context. Not only inside of FileMaker, but context refers as well to the broader tech community: what integrations will we use and how will we use those. And finally we'll talk specific functions and their value in certain contexts.Claris ConnectThey talk a bit about Claris' upcoming product: Claris Connect. Claris Connect will take away some of the tedious or tough-for-newbies parts of connecting to different services out there. The product will make it incredibly easy. We'll talk more about Claris Connect in the future.HTML EmailThey talk a bit about an oft-requested feature: HTML Email as an example of FileMaker's power. It is so much simpler–for so many reasons–to connect to a service like SendGrid or Office 365 from FIleMaker, and Claris Connect will make it even easier. Since HTML Email is already done in those services, Claris engineers can focus their resources on other needs.JavaScriptJeremy, of course, is excited to talk JavaScript sometimes since, as we know, JavaScript is part of FileMaker.The Last FileMaker DevConJeremy and Todd also talk about FileMaker DevCon 2019. They talk about its disruptive nature and its future-focused nature. They're looking forward to Brad Freitag's leadership of Claris with their mission statement, values, and pillars and the renewed energy they see in Claris International.
In this episode Teresa and Thomas review several free starter files. fmIgnite Starter from LuminFire FM Starting Point from RCC Consulting FM Kickstart from Kempen Automatisering FMQuickStart from DB Services Karbon from Geist Interactive
00:00 - Intro 01:00 - Our guest today: Dave Ramsey, developer of FM Perception 01:28 - What is FM Perception? What are Database Design Reports (DDR)? What were the precursors to FM Perception (fmXRaySpecs)? 08:30 - Dave discusses some of the other environments, languagues and tools that he uses in his development (AppleScript, Swift, .NET, etc.). 11:10 - "It was kind of a, 'Hey, I wonder if I can do this,' and unfortunately that's been the start of a lot of the weird projects that I've done." 11:25 - How long did it take to develop FM Perception? 12:30 - "I didn't set out trying to make a DDR tool, I set out trying to learn a little bit more about the way XML parsing works...and ended up with a DDR tool because there was no other choice." 13:20 - When did you realize that this was a marketable product? 15:30 - Nick talks about how he uses FM perception and how the program has become best-practice at Adatasol. 19:05 - "[FM Perception] just removes all the head-wind, any pressure that tries to say, 'I don't really want to run another DDR and do another analysis,'—it's trivial." 20:58 - FileMaker and XML: a look toward the future of FM Perception 24:35 - "The ability to slice up the XML,...manipulate the XML and do something with that XML—there's no end...We can just keep doing neater and neater stuff pretty much forever." 25:09 - The benefits, theoretically speaking, of bidirectional XML in FileMaker. 26:33 - FileMaker 17 - the potential of new "Add-On" features 29:22 - Indirection, Script Triggers, and other dangers of creative liberty. Has FM Perception emboldened developers to use these tools haphazardly? 35:48 - Feature Highlight: Text Search - you can perform a free-form text search across the entirety of your DDR and then search among the results. 38:44 - Feature Highlight: Flagged Functions (Preferences) - add additional calculation functions to look for in the DDR and flag it. 43:04 - FM Perception and Geist Interactive at DevCon 2018
Matt Navarre talks with John Sindelar from Seedcode, and Todd Geist from Geist Interactive about the new version of GoZync. We talk features, ease of integration, use cases, and more. We also talk about Todd's upcoming DevCon sessions (John is taking a break this year)
Matt talks to John Sindelar from SeedCode and Todd Geist from Geist Interactive about the product they built together: GoZync. We also discuss the apparent shift at FMI from Spreadsheet replacement to App construction.
Matt talks to John from Seedcode and Todd from Geist Interactive about a new tool that will transform mobile development for many of us. GoZync is this solution that allows FileMaker Go developers to enjoy the speed and flexibility of working with a local database on the iPad with the push and pull capabilities to connect with FileMaker Server.