While the big announcements from this year's DevCon set the tone for an exciting and revelatory conference, the week held even more in store for us. 

An Overview Of The Key New Features In Claris FileMaker Pro 19

FileMaker Pro 19 is now available, and with the release come a bunch of awesome new features to further enhance the capabilities of the platform. In this post we’ll check out, in brief, some of the key new features and in further posts we’ll dig into a select few a bit deeper.

Changes In FileMaker 19 Have Broken Existing Custom Default Fields

Custom default fields were introduced in FileMaker 17 and proved to be immensely useful. The functionality allows for the automatic creation of fields when making a new table, ensuring consistency for fields like primary keys or creation/modification timestamps for example. If you had set this up in 17, when FileMaker 18 was released, they continued to work. But try it with FileMaker 19 and your custom default fields are gone. Don't panic, it's a pretty simple fix.

Warning 156 fms.myserver.com Schedule "HOURLY_BACKUP_USB" aborted; the destination "filemac:/BackUps/" is not writable.

If you upgrade your Mac server to macOS 10.15 Catalina, you might find that your backup schedules to external drives start failing with an error number 156. Although apparently fixed in FileMaker 18.0.4, it's rearing its head again, but there is a simple fix.

Adding Additional Disk Space To An Existing Volume

It’s not uncommon, as a FileMaker database begins to grow, that the volume originally set up on an AWS instance begins to run out of space. To tackle this, you could launch a new instance with a larger volume, but that seems like a bunch of work and there’s a much simpler way of solving this problem. Let’s find out how…

It Might Take A "While" For Us To Achieve This

The JSON functions were introduced in FileMaker 16 and since then, as it's native functionality, we've used these functions for passing around data in script parameters and more. Often times, we'll be, say, clicking a button on a layout and passing multiple JSON formatted script parameters to the script being executed. But we began wondering if there was a quicker way of extracting the parameters into variables in the script, and it turns out there is…

Is your FileMaker Pro 19 installation running as a trial license despite adding the license certificate?

In the process of setting up a machine for a client recently, we encountered an issue where FileMaker Pro 19 was installed, with the license certificate in the downloads folder as it should be, but we were asked for the license certificate each time the app was launched. And when it did launch, the app was in trial mode with an expiration date. But wait, we have a valid license...

How to take advantage of web services' webhooks within a FileMaker database

More and more online services are utilizing webhooks as a resource-light way to respond to an event, often times pushing around some data. So if we as FileMaker developers want to take advantage of these webhooks, how can we go about it? Well, dig in and find out!

What is this new script step in FileMaker 19 and how does it work?

FileMaker 19 introduced some game changing functionality to the platform, including the JavaScript functions and Add-Ons. Another last-minute feature that made it into the release was the Execute FileMaker Data API script step. Documentation is sparse at this time, so we set out to find out what it does and how it works. Let's jump in...

This seems ominous: omniORB: (0) Warning: SSL CA certificate location is not set. SSL transport disabled.

Working with Claris' FileMaker Server Command Line Interface (CLI) allows you to configure your server to your needs and in some instances allows you to adjust settings that are not available within the Admin Console. When executing commands, if you encounter a warning message that begins "omniORB" followed by the date, time and something to do with the SSL, you may have concerns... And rightly so, "SSL transport disabled" doesn't sound good, right? Well, read on to find out what might be wrong and how to fix it.

What's changed with this script step in FileMaker Pro 19.4?

We've been through a number of iterations of FileMaker 19 now and the latest release, 19.4, introduces some changes to the Execute FileMaker Data API script step that we explored back in September 2020. So, let's find out what's new...

An Overview Of Some Of The Key New Features In Claris FileMaker 2023

Following a slew of incremental FileMaker 19 releases, some of which introduced bigger changes than the dot number might imply, the product gets its next major number release with FileMaker 2023 now available. Yup, there's a product numbering change happening and a ton of new features, too many to cover in detail in one article, but let's check out some of the key ones we've explored...