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FileMaker is a cross-platform (OS X and Windows) database development environment.

FileMaker is a cross-platform (OS X and Windows) database development environment targeted at both novices and professional developers, with deployment for desktop, mobile and web applications.

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What Are the Pros and Cons of Filemaker?

A potential customer has asked me to look at some promotional flyers for a couple of apps which fall into the contact management / scheduler category. Both use Filemaker as their backend. It looks like these two apps are sold as web apps. At any…
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Best way to extract data from a FileMaker Pro database in a script?

My job would be easier, or at least less tedious if I could come up with an automated way (preferably in a Python script) to extract useful information from a FileMaker Pro database. I am working on Linux machine and the FileMaker database is on the…
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How to migrate the database from Filemaker to Mysql?

I am rebuilding an ERP system based on Symfony1.4 and MySQL 5.1. The challenge is that previous system was built on Filemaker Pro and I have to migrate all previous data to current system. For that, first I need to move all the data to a MySQL DB…
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MySQL AND Filemaker Pro?

I have a client that wants to use Filemaker for a few things in their office, and may have me building a web app. The last time I used, or thought about, or even heard of, Filemaker was about 10 years ago, and I seem to remember that I don't want to…
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Wrap column names in double quotes in Hibernate

I'm using Spring JPA 2.0.9 with Hibernate 5.3.5 and this dialect to access a FileMaker (v16) database via JDBC using the official JDBC driver taken from this distribution. The thing is that the resulting SQL ends up being with column names prefixed…
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Change PHP.ini location file?

I'm using apache2 on OSX, by default the php.ini location is: /private/etc/php.ini I need to change it to this... /Library/FileMaker Server/Web Publishing/publishing-engine/php/lion/lib/php.ini Any help?
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Filemaker Field not Found

We ( have ) to use filemaker for a customer but we get a field not found error when adding the request. This is the code we're using which is serving the $_POST values. (I know that I'm using mass assignment but this is currently in a testing…
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How to decode these characters? á é í

I'm querying the MediaWiki API to get Wikipedia data into my Filemaker database. When I load the data into a browser, the characters show up properly but when it comes into Filemaker, characters with diacriticals get converted to these odd…
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FileMaker 11 PHP and ODBC new line / carriage return

I am connecting to FileMaker Pro 11 Server with a ODBC Connection. I am importing some information from the eBay API. When I recieve the address from ebay, it comes in two fields address1 and address2. In the FileMaker database we just have one…
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How to change MySQL date format for database?

We are using a MySQL database with FileMaker. It appears that when FileMaker is reading the MySQL tables, it will only accept dates in the format of m/d/y. Is there any way I can get our MySQL database to change its default format to be m/d/y…
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Code refactoring: from $ to [[

I have a lot of code which uses the $ operator rather than [[. I've read about many advantages of [[ and would like to refactor all of the code. Would there be any problems with the following method? And how could I best do the search and replace…
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C#: arithmetic overflow by reading data via ODBC

In my actual project im reading Data from a Filemaker v14 Database. Im getting the Data like that: command.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM CAR"; //Create new SqlDataReader object and read data from the command. using (OdbcDataReader reader =…
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Filemaker 10 get url put contents into field

Im trying to get the contents of a webpage put into a field in Filemaker pro 10. Does anybody know the code to do this in the scripmaker? I have a field called URL that has the url I want and a filed called content, this is where the source html…
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Dynamic Layouts in Filemaker

First off I am new to FM but I have a good handle on the basics. What I need to do is this - in a contact information type layout I want to be able to alter the layout based on a specific field. Ex. When the record is brought up, the background of…
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FileMaker Security Questions

I am currently working with FileMaker and their PHP API, and I have to search, insert and update database entries from a website. I just have a quick question really. Is there any specific security issues I should be concerned about whilst working…
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