In this session Brian Ginn introduces us to UDproAI. UDproAI, developed by Universal Design, Inc., is about to launch as a new tool for FileMaker developers. This tool aids in writing complex calculations and provides real-time validation of results using native FileMaker API calls. By ensuring accuracy and efficiency, UDproAI streamlines the development process, reducing the time and effort spent on debugging and verifying calculations. Universal Design, Inc.'s latest innovation is set to become an essential resource for enhancing reliability and productivity in FileMaker projects.

http://www.UDproAI.com

With FileMaker, as with any development process, consistent conventions are the foundation of good organization. These conventions play a crucial role in supporting collaboration among team members, simplifying the coding process, reducing cognitive load, and ensuring that your future self can easily understand and build upon your work.

Although we will not advocate for specific conventions or standards, John Howell of Data Experience will be demonstrating some well-established and widely accepted conventions. These examples will illustrate how adopting such practices can enhance the overall efficiency and maintainability of your projects.

The main takeaway is not about adhering to a particular set of rules but rather the importance of establishing and consistently applying conventions throughout all aspects of your work. By doing so, you create a structured environment that facilitates better communication, easier troubleshooting, and more streamlined development, ultimately leading to higher quality and more robust outcomes.

Join us to learn how implementing consistent conventions can transform your development process, making it more organized, efficient, and future-proof.

Presentation PowerPoint Show
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e9k53d21pffxf01bah5am/Conventions-for-Development-with-Claris-FileMaker-240528-v14.ppsx?rlkey=6h8fplrjp2ycqxig9pm6kb33b&st=rki0oegu&dl=0

Presentation PDF
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/an2qcvp8ks8a1c3wksbf5/Conventions-for-Development-with-Claris-FileMaker-240528-v14.pdf?rlkey=euldygpsnb01ifgbo12cwfm10&st=4a0360vs&dl=0

FileMaker Demo File - Anchor by Number
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jsear39bsd0uiewblcq5k/AnchorByNumber.fmp12?rlkey=q8vl8bydkb87zm3f9ez17gbkk&st=rbef1bpd&dl=0

Anchor-Buoy Relational Graph Management
Anchor-Buoy pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yusn53kb4f2nccrmhqf07/AnchorBuoy-2009v4.pdf?rlkey=65wlqdyu2uzzxcd175ztmihck&dl=0

Anchor-Buoy ppsx
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g671j6jjrpdmbj0ex8tfg/AnchorBuoy-2009v4.ppsx?rlkey=klc87dr6vyfcillnoozqcpmcf&dl=0

Everybody sells. All the time. We all have ideas, initiatives, perspectives that we want to advance.

Even if you are an engineer within your current role, your ability to listen, build trust, and influence outcomes can unlock new levels of job satisfaction and career success. And your engineering skills will actually help!

In this session, Bill Bennett will walk through a proven four-step framework for engineering your sales process that you can immediately apply to your next big initiative. He will discuss why you need to patiently sit in the pain with your stakeholders, how asking for help and enrolling others shows you where you stand, and how to hold back your demo until the optimal moment for impact.

Attend this session to demystify the process and unpack a few gotchas so that you can engineer your way to enjoyable, predictable, and positive outcomes!

Source Material
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/00pbu3w89k9q7ra8j58zg/EngineersWhoSellFull.zip?rlkey=8ernc3j5aohslqaszj8x3g3gi

https://kizasolutions.com

Claris Engage 2024 Sessions
https://community.claris.com/en/s/engage/claris-engage-recordings?vtui__catalogId=a5NVy00000000Cv

Vince Mennano, representing Beezwax, takes the virtual stage to introduce the latest and most innovative version of InspectorPro. This indispensable tool is meticulously crafted to empower FileMaker teams with unparalleled capabilities in diagnostics, analysis, and data visualization. With its suite of advanced features, InspectorPro elevates collaboration, enhances performance, and provides invaluable insights. Discover how InspectorPro can revolutionize your workflow and elevate your FileMaker projects to new heights.

Mark Richman from Skeleton Key showcases Skeleton Key's latest PDF enhancement product, "Gloss." Gloss guarantees a consistent PDF viewing, navigating, and text-searching experience across all operating systems and Claris FileMaker interfaces. It also provides users with extensive annotation tools for marking up PDFs without ever leaving FileMaker!.

Mark Richman and Greg Lane of Skeleton Key demo Gloss, showcase its features, and show you how quickly you can add it to your solutions. To try out Gloss for yourself, download the demo and follow the steps to request an API key by completing the following form:

https://www.skeletonkey.com/gloss

AI is quickly becoming a valuable tool to assist developers in their workflow. But you may be asking, which AI’s out there know FileMaker and of those, which one is best for me? Brian Ginn has become a daily user of AI as it relates to FileMaker and he joins us to take a look at how AI can be used to increase productivity and streamline many time-consuming tasks.

This month we will be discussing various options for integrating payment processing into a FileMaker solution. We'll be looking at options involving Paypal, Stripe and Authorize.net.

This month we be discuss FileMaker's Data API. Specifically, we explore how a set of PHP classes for FileMaker's Data API are used to simplify and streamline the complex task of making your FileMaker data available to your PHP web pages. One such set of PHP classes is fmPDA, available from Driftwood Interactive. Mark DeNyse of Driftwood Interactive, joins us to talk about fmPDA and demonstrate how these classes are used to make the FileMaker to web connection.

This month's presentation by Ron Cates of RGC Data is on calculated sorts and customizable sub summary reports.

Demo File
https://rgcdata.com/download/?id=948C4206-0E7F-6749-9146-5CF9401100CE&file=CalculatedSorts

This month we are joined by Jesse Barnum of 360Works. We taking a look at Mirror Sync by 360Works. Mirror Sync provides the capability to sync FileMaker databases on an iPad, iPhone, or laptop without a network connection as well as syncing between any combination of FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, SQL databases, Salesforce, WordPress, and Amazon databases.

360Works
https://360works.com/