If you are not familiar with the web site called Modular FileMaker, you owe it to yourself to check out some of the great code residing there. A Mailchimp module was recently added from FMSimplicity. It is, as advertised, modular and offers the potential of a less complicated installation procedure. I haven’t actually tried installing it yet, but it looks promising. If […]
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Modular FileMaker – A New Mailchimp Module
July 29, 2014 
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MailChimp Integration with FileMaker Pro – Part 5 of 4 – Importing Mailing Lists
August 13, 2013 2 Comments
A reader asked recently about getting a MailChimp list into FileMaker Pro. The work that I did on the MailChimp integration demo was based on a project that I did a customer who wanted to start syncing an existing FileMaker data set with MailChimp, so we were starting with the data in FileMaker. It was […]
MailChimp Integration with FileMaker Pro 12 – Part 4 of 4
June 20, 2013 6 Comments
Readers have reported problems running this file on Windows in FileMaker 11. The problem is that with a Web Viewer on Windows, Internet Explorer, the underlying technology behind the Web Viewer on Windows doesn’t like raw JSON files returned from MailChimp. There are some other solutions for FM 11, but it is fairly simple to […]
FileMaker MailChimp Integration – Part 3 of 4
September 15, 2010 22 Comments
UPDATE: 2013-06-20 FileMaker 12 version of the demo is available that should work with Windows. UPDATE: 2012-08-07 Windows users with FileMaker 12 have an option to solve the JSON error message issue by swapping out the Web Viewer steps and instead employ the new Insert from URL script step. This will save a few lines of code […]
MailChimp Integration with FileMaker Pro – Part 2 of 4
July 14, 2010 29 Comments
UPDATE: 2013-06-20 FileMaker 12 version of the demo is available that should work with Windows. UPDATE: 2012-08-07 Windows users with FileMaker 12 have an option to solve the JSON error message issue by swapping out the Web Viewer steps and instead employ the new Insert from URL script step. This will save a few lines of code and […]
MailChimp Integration with FileMaker Pro – Part 1 of 4
July 10, 2010 27 Comments
UPDATE: 2013-09-03 For those of you who find all this stuff a little too confusing or too much work, you may want to consider a recently announced FileMaker database/web service just came through my email box. The application is called Mail List Maker, is built in FileMaker Pro and offers a full fledge email management system that […]
Downloads
August 16, 2012 2 Comments
File Downloads linked to Blog articles 99 Bottles of Beer – in FileMaker 11 Download: 99-Bottles.fp7 Creating Google Cluster Maps from FileMaker Download: ClusterMaps.fp7 Cluster Maps Continued: Perimeter Search in FileMaker Pro 12 Download: ClusterMapsV4.zip Cluster Maps Update – Running URL Scripts in a Web Viewer Download: ClusterMapsV4.zip Dialing Phone Numbers using SkypeOut from FileMaker Pro Download: Contacts-Skype-Out Demo MailChimp Integration with FileMaker Pro —Part […]
Macworld Article: When and why to use group email services
July 1, 2012 1 Comment
Good overview article in Macworld of why you might want to use a group email service. MailChimp gets a mention. It does not appear to attempt to evaluate the services mentioned, merely make people aware of the options. For my money, MailChimp rules on features, friendliness and use. Related Articles: MailChimp Integration with FileMaker Pro – […]
WordPress FileMaker Sync price dropped
May 17, 2012 5 Comments
WordPress FileMaker Sync | Send FileMaker Data to the Web in Minutes. There has been a large price drop on the FileMaker to WordPress plugin. It was $500 and is now down to $149. I looked at this plugin a while ago, when it was first published and was impressed, but reluctant to purchase […]
Searching for Email Addresses in FileMaker
April 12, 2012 Comments Off on Searching for Email Addresses in FileMaker
The @ symbol used in email addresses has a use in FileMaker that predates email. FileMaker started using this symbol as a wildcard to search for missing characters. For instance if you were looking for something that ends in ‘smith’, you could search for @smith, which would bring up silversmith and goldsmith etc. Apparently, database […]
That Syncing Feeling – the Dangers of MobileMe.
January 4, 2011 4 Comments
Attempting to solve one problem, many new problems are created. For the TL;DR crowd – bought MacBook Air (MBA) on sale, setup MobileMe syncing between MBA and MacBook Pro, decided MBA too limited. Decided to return and in preparing to return to store deleted all of my contacts, calendars and bookmarks, Time Machine saves the […]
2010 in review
January 2, 2011 2 Comments
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 9,700 times in 2010. That’s about 23 full 747s. In […]
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