Adding documents storage and qr codes

Alan Bird continues our ongoing build of a CRM with focus on basics and good foundation.

Ron Glen Cates of RGC Data presents a DAPI demo filemaker file that including some basic php pages. He walks us through how to upload to a web server and establish a live connection through FileMaker's Data API. We also take a look at building the php pages. 3/22/2022

Download the demo file here
https://rgcdata.com/dapi-demo/

In our January meeting we said good-bye to Johnathan Fletcher as he stepped down from hosting the Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group. Alan Bird kicked off the new FileMaker 101 format for the first half of the meeting. The second half consisted of discussions with the attendees on what they would like to see in the coming months.

Michael Layne from 9 Degrees will demonstrate taking a back-end internal FileMaker solution and exposing some information to a client portal.

Robert Naud demonstrates his application of fmHAM, Delf's Engineering's Hierarchical Access Management tool for building flexible and granular access management schemes into your solutions.

Mike Ross leads a discussion on abstraction, what it is, when to use it and, perhaps more importantly, when NOT to use it. Ron Cates also demos some of his scripting to demonstrate his use of abstraction.

In July, Chris Irvine presented a broad introduction to several software architecture concepts to the Cincinnati and Indianapolis user groups. In this month's presentation, Chris will re-introduce the idea of a three-tier solution and then go deeper into practical use by stepping through some interactive demos. The idea of atomic transactions, with 'committing' or 'reverting' records, can be an important and useful platform feature to tame. It can help software to behave as users expect, and also maintain quality data in your records. One demo area will be a user-interactive transaction, and another will be in a UI-free approach.

Developers ranging from intermediate all the way up to expert will likely be able to take away some practical ideas that could be put to use inside their own solutions. This virtual meeting was very interactive with lots of questions and discussions.

While watching the July presentation is not a prerequisite, a recording is available on YouTube for those who are interested https://youtu.be/XMod98BkH50. Additional related background material includes a blog series, https://scalefm.com/2016/06/is-filemaker-acid-compliant-part1/

Chris Irvine is a Senior Technology Consultant and founder at Threeprong.com LLC, specializing in performance tuning, B2B integration, and custom workgroup solutions. His educational background is in Computer Science, with professional experience including management roles in multiple industries, numerous development and database environments, and over 15 years of experience with Claris FileMaker products and related technologies.

Additional material related to this presentation, including sample file and presentation slides, is available at
https://scalefm.com/2021/09/atomic-meet-tiers-at-kentuckiana-dev-group

Charles Delfs of Delfs Engineering in Toronto, Ontario, shows off FM Better Forms, his easy-to-use web front end creation application for FileMaker databases. FM Better Forms empowers FileMaker solutions to provide a much wider variety of services on the web faster and easier than other "custom web publishing" methods.

Christian Schmitz of Monkeybread Software recently took time out of his Austrian vacation to share with the Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group some examples of useful functions in his MBS FileMaker plugin.