Each year, the Claris Excellence Awards are awarded in several categories to Partners and Community members who have shown extraordinary examples of implementation and innovation with Claris technology. We are extremely honored to have received the 2023 Humanitarian Award, which honors the Claris Partner or non-partner organization who showed compassion and dedication to volunteer work helping a non-profit or other organization in a time of need.

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...

Lesson in Brief: Starting Keycloak 17 Including On Boot And Next Steps

We're approaching the finish line with our Keycloak 17 series, with just a couple more things to take care of. In this final article, we'll be getting our Keycloak server up and running, along with getting it to start when the machine reboots, and looking at some port considerations and next steps for integrating with FileMaker. Let's get this finished up!

Lesson in Brief: Downloading Keycloak And Configuring The Configuration File

So far in this Keycloak 17 series, we have been preparing our server by installing Ubuntu, MySQL, and downloading our SSL certificate. Now it's time to download the star of the show, Keycloak 17, and do our final bit of preparation before we can get it started. Without further ado...

Lesson in Brief: Obtaining A Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate For Keycloak 17

Our previous Keycloak article on SSL certificates has been, by far, the most popular article in the series. Undoubtedly, it's not just FileMaker developers visiting that page, but it's encouraging that the security article within the security series has picked up that much traction. We must encrypt the traffic between our servers, be that Keycloak or FileMaker, and again to that end we'll be utilizing Let's Encrypt certificates for Keycloak 17.

Lesson in Brief: Setting Up A Server With Ubuntu And MySQL In Preparation For Keycloak 17

We have previously written a complete and lengthy series about Keycloak, an Identity and Access Management solution that can be used with FileMaker to provide centralized management of users, multi-factor authentication, password-less authentication, act as a broker for other Identity Providers and more.

But the folks over at Keycloak HQ have been relentless in their pursuit of improvements to the software, and in mid February 2022, Keycloak 17 was released with a new underlying technology that requires us to revisit and update our deployment tutorial. So, let's get to it!

Lesson in Brief: Changes In Keycloak 16 Require A Different SSL Configuration Set Up

In part 3 of our Keycloak series, our most popular Keycloak article by far, we tackled the beast that is securing the Keycloak server with a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate. When we released that article, Keycloak was on version 12 but technology moves at a rapid pace and now Keycloak 16.1.0 is the current version with some significant changes under the hood that affect our SSL configuration. Let's check out what's changed and how we go about configuring our SSL certificate in this version of Keycloak...

Lesson in Brief: New Options In FileMaker Server 19.4 Allow For Less Complex Set Up

Back in part 6 of our Keycloak series, we walked through the steps of how to set up FileMaker Server to use Keycloak to authenticate to a database. With the release of FileMaker 19.4, things have got a little easier, so let's check out what's new...

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...

Lesson in Brief: Logging Into A Database Without Using A Password & Then Serious MFA

In our last article we set up two factor authentication to make access to our database file more secure - one factor is your username/password and the second factor is the authenticator app on your mobile device. But, we can go another direction too, utilzing something like a YubiKey for password-less authentication. Let's check out how...