Daniel Shanahan of New Leaf Data out of Toledo, OH, will talk about working with Inventory systems in FileMaker. After sharing insights from his considerable experience using FileMaker to solve companies' inventory problems, Daniel will demonstrate a tool anyone can use to help streamline the creation of their own inventory solutions.

Long-time Canadian developer, Robert Naud, (his company is called Accolade Plus Accolade) will share his favorite tips for writing scripts and calculations. He is a firm believer in the crucial role of proper nomenclature and commenting in support of effective solution maintenance, and when he is done, you will be too.

Our very own group coordinator Alan Bird will share his discovery of a marvelous educational resource that Claris has put together on the heels of last summer's "virtual developers' conference," and how you can effectively take advantage of it.

https://www.newleafdata.com
https://www.trayseinventory.com

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Duncan Baker of Sounds Essential speaks to us from his mountain lair somewhere in western North Carolina about FileMaker 19's new Execute FileMaker Data API script step. Yet another way to build a data objet via a single script step, and the absolute best way to create a complex JSON object from your data.

Regular attendee Martin Ramsay has been exploring JSON data structures for his solutions lately and will share with us how handy they are for working with data arrays. Martin will walk us through FileMaker's essential new JSON functions and how they make working with data arrays a breeze.

A lot of people have had a tough time wrapping their heads around FileMaker's 19's WHILE function. It allows some great recursive actions in a way more familiar to traditional programmers, but it's new to the FileMaker world, so the depths of power are still being plumbed by the community. We were able to get frequent DevCon presenter Jonn Howell, whom we've seen in these parts before, live and direct from his hermetically sealed and HEPA-filtered smoke-bound bunker in Northern California to show off his new presentation on the when's, why's and how's of using the WHILE function.

Jeremy Brown of Geist Interactive shares the latest methods and uses of JavaScript in FileMaker Pro 19 for the July '20 meeting of the Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group.