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Historical Foreign Exchange Lookup in FileMaker


Scripts to look up Foreign Exchange rates seem to be something of a recurring item on this blog. It is because the Internet keeps changing and what worked last year, doesn’t necessarily work this year. Also, this time, I had a need for looking up foreign exchange rates on a specific date. I found another […]

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FileMaker to Google Translate for Longer Texts


ChatGPT is a better FileMaker Programmer Than Me

So, I decided to ask ChatGPT to re-create the script that I had worked so hard on. In a few seconds, the way it does, it came back with a much simpler way of doing the task.

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Scraping Tables – Pulling Data Tables from Web Pages into FileMaker Pro


In an ideal world, this data would be published to a JSON file and FileMaker could easily parse that data into records. Unfortunately, many organizations are not there yet, in terms of sharing their data easily. That is where this parsing routine comes in handy.

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