How the Self function can give you a label’s text.

Can you call the Mac OS X Cocoa API from a FileMaker script? Yes, you can…but not directly. This example shows how to call the PDFDocument class to query a file’s attributes and then write out a modified version.

Here’s a free AppleScript to get a FileMaker object "any object" off the clipboard as text. See how FileMaker really describes its objects!

Here’s how to incorporate virtually any UI control you see on the web directly into your FileMaker 12 Pro — and FileMaker Go —  layouts.

The FileMaker 12 product line is here! Keep reading to see what we think the most exciting new possibilities are with the new versions of FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server and FileMaker Go.

Instructions and file for setting up a basic JDBC connection from Java code

Can you handle 99 bottles of beer… in your favorite programming language? Here’s a fun little challenge to stir your technical and creative juices. Over 1437 variations and counting, including this version in FileMaker. How would you do it?

I began using FileMaker at the spry old age of FileMaker Pro 8, so I’ve never been through the trenches of using repeating fields to accomplish what can now be done with portals. However, repeating fields still have a variety of uses, and I’m happy to have them in my toolkit. When I’m working with a repeating field, there are several questions I might ask of it, depending on the task at hand.

Use portal filters to help the Bard select his favorite grandchildren. An adventure in FileMaker sorting!

How do you present rich text field data on a FileMaker layout, and allow users to scroll, select, and copy it, but not make changes? We recently had to do this, and found it more challenging than we'd expected. We discovered two very different ways to do this; both are flexible, lightweight, and will scale well as a solution grows over time.

One of the most valuable aspects of this year’s FileMaker Developers Conference was a far-reaching discussion of the role of design in the FileMaker world. A broad range of speakers presented an exciting new view of design as an interactive process shared by developers and users alike. This new vision of design suggests several new possibilities and poses some intriguing questions for the FileMaker community.