The User is Not Always Right
Users ask for a lot of things, and it can be tempting to just say yes to every request. Learn more about how to deliver what your client really needs here.
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Logging in Managed Packages
Issues with debugging when you install a managed package into the org? Soliant’s Damien Phillippi shows you how to build your own logging system.
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Set Up Postman for Optimal JSON API Debugging
Learn how to use Postman for optimal JSON API debugging to define sharable configurations and use environment variables to your advantage.
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Evan Coury – A Simple Explanation of Git-rebase
What is Git Rebase? Git rebase organizes branching paths and makes the repository structure linear. It allows you to patch changes onto your origin or master branch. In December of 2011, Evan Coury posted an article on his now-defunct blog titled “A simple explanation of git-rebase,” and his Twitter post still comes up in searches.
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Enterprise-quality Web apps with SimpleFM
SimpleFM is a robust choice for interacting with the FileMaker Server XML API. The core SimpleFM package is agnostic about coding style. In this article we will lift the hood on the skeleton app and show how clean and importantly how intuitive the code is.
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Test Data Generator
Manual Entry of Test Data Discourages Testing When testing the functionality of a solution, software developers frequently have to create test records, which requires them to enter in test data. If the fields requiring a value include a name field, I’m good to go for about 5-6 records, until I exhaust the ‘first name’ supply
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FileMaker 14 Script Triggers
The team at Soliant has created a handy cheat sheet and a demo file that you can use to learn when a FileMaker trigger fires and when the associated action or object is affected.
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When disk space is not disk space…
A strange question pops up on the various FileMaker forums from time to time and it goes like this: “How can I exclude my externally stored container content from a backup run?” The reason behind the question is usually a concern for the amount of disk space that is required for the backup. Say that
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Extending Webdirect: Automatically Zip Container Fields
In FileMaker, container fields are super handy. Combined with some database structure, they make it easy to associate multiple stored files with a single record. Even better, container fields are supported in WebDirect. Read more to see how to automatically zip container data and serve it directly to your clients.
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FileMaker-Salesforce Integration via OAuth
Explore different approaches to integrating Salesforce and FileMaker. Here we focus on Oauth with the benefit of keeping all the code within FileMaker (no third-party tools). Demo file included.
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