MightyNews - September 2012
Hello FileMaker user,
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Susan Fennema
Dean of Success
 
FileMaker Server 12.0v2 and FileMaker Server 12.0v2 Advanced Update
FileMaker, Inc. has released FileMaker Server 12.0v2 and FileMaker Server 12.0v2 Advanced. This update addresses issues regarding installation and configuration, the Admin Console, the database server, the command line interface, ODBC, external authentication, and Custom Web Publishing. Read more...
Thank You For The Awards
At the 2012 FileMaker Developer Conference, MightyData was surprised and honored to receive two awards, one from FileMaker Inc. and the other from our colleagues in the FileMaker Community.
The FileMaker Mad Dog Award is given to individuals for their contribution in helping to advance awareness of the FileMaker platform. This is our third Mad Dog Award over the last decade. Thank you to Kevin Mallon at FileMaker Inc. for selecting us again for this recognition. Read more...
Real-World FileMaker Web Service App
by Anders Monsen
In a previous post, I enthused about FileMaker 12′s new “Insert from URL” script step. The ability to pull in data from web pages through RESTful web services is akin to the science fiction idea of wormholes into other dimensions. Programmable Web currently lists over 6,000 web service APIs in its directory, and the trajectory only points upward. Though some web services come with commercial restrictions, and others may change without notice, getting this data into FileMaker has never been easier.
In this article I’m going to move from general enthusiasm to showing a FileMaker Pro database that I built to import book information based on ISBN values (a link to my demo file appears below). The power of “Insert from URL” grows exponentially when combined with the FMP URL protocol and FileMaker Go. In a fairly short amount of time I was able to integrate my iPhone to scan a book’s ISBN bar code from within FileMaker Go–reading the data using an app called Pic2Shop, then using “Insert from URL” to load the rest of the book information, virtually eliminating any manual data entry.
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Getting Faster: Installing Multiple Instances of FileMaker
by Darren Burgess
As you may have guessed by now, I love working in an optimized environment, designed for getting the crud out of the way so that I can focus on development. Just like a carpenter needs to not be thinking about the hammer, or the painter about the mechanics of the canvas, my computer and its operating system need to fade into the background, almost as if they were not really there at all.
Have you ever, in the course of working with a database, needed to do a long import, export or other time-intensive task? For example, I have worked on a very large solution recently that required 4 hours to import the DDR into BaseElements. Not wanting to lose an entire 1/2 day to the task, I needed a solution where I could both perform the import and continue working on other projects. Read more...
Postive Customer Experience Cornerstones
by Susan Fennema
MightyData is always trying to provide our customers with a process that provides the very best experience. To that end, we are continually evaluating our process to see how we can improve our customers’ perceptions and experience.
There are some basics that we feel are the cornerstones of good customer service:
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Stop Embedding Documents in Your Database!
by Kirk Bowman
Recently, I converted two customer databases from FileMaker 11 to FileMaker 12. Both customers were embedding documents in the database by inserting them into container fields. The result in each case was database bloat—a file size much larger than necessary (1GB or greater).
The disadvantages of a large database in FileMaker are several including slower performance (more data to push over network), lower productivity (long wait times during backups), and greater risk (more susceptible to corruption in the event of a crash). Fortunately, FileMaker 12 has a new feature called Enhanced (or external) Container Fields
to address this. Read more...
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