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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Tag Archives: Custom Functions
FileMaker to Google Translate for Longer Texts
February 20, 2023 
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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.
Continue reading Scraping Tables – Pulling Data Tables from Web Pages into FileMaker Pro
January 25, 2019 2 Comments
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.
Continue reading Ever wish there was a way to ‘Send to FileMaker’ from your Web Browser?
July 26, 2017 Comments Off on Ever wish there was a way to ‘Send to FileMaker’ from your Web Browser?
Turns out there is a fairly easy way to do this. It involves creating a bookmark in your web browser that is written in Javascript. It calls a FileMaker script using the URL scheme ‘FMP’ and sends the web page title, and the page’s URL to FileMaker. Once you have this in FileMaker, you can […]
Continue reading Free Mortgage Calculator for FileMaker Go 14
August 13, 2015 1 Comment
The beauty of the FileMaker Platform is that in a few hours you can create an ‘app’ …
Continue reading QR Codes in FileMaker 12 & 13 — No Plug-ins, No Custom Functions
December 18, 2013 7 Comments
A while back I did a blog posting on generating 2D Bar Codes, or QR Codes from Google’s Chart API. The demo was created back in the dark days of FileMaker 11, before the advent of the Insert from URL function (FM12). In the old demo I used a Custom Function and a free plugin […]
Continue reading Cluster Maps Continued: Perimeter Search in FileMaker Pro 12
June 21, 2013 7 Comments
Working on a presentation for a customer that employs the Cluster Maps concept, the request came up about doing perimeter searches—as in ‘How do I see all the related addresses around a specific location?” This ability would aid sales people in the field, cut down on travel etc. A search on Brian Dunning’s very useful […]
Continue reading Creating and Storing 2D Bar Codes in FileMaker
October 7, 2010 8 Comments
2D Bar Codes are all the rage these days. These new style bar codes can store considerably more data than a standard bar code. Combined with the wide spread availability of iPhones and other smart phones with a built-in camera, capable of scanning these codes, there is an opportunity to employ these codes for a […]
Continue reading Growl Integration with FileMaker
August 12, 2010 4 Comments
FileMaker dialog boxes can be informative, but sometimes they are just annoying. You have to click them to get them to go away. Lots of times, you just want to give a little bit of feedback to the user, so they they get a clue as to what your scripts are doing, without requiring them […]
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