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By Jan Zelenka. Hi, my name is Jan Zelenka, and I want to show you how an efficient implementation of a JavaScript function library in FileMaker can be achieved. In some areas, the JavaScript engine is considerably faster than FileMaker. You can get serious performance gains if you use JavaScript functions instead of FileMaker custom […]

By Joris Aarts. How it started: Until 2019, before the start of the pandemic, there were 3 types of professional FileMaker events: The annual DevCon in the US: unique because of the information at the ‘source’. dotfmp.berlin: unique as non-conference due to the lack of a central agenda. Various mini-conferences, based on the DevCon model […]

By Jan Stieperaere. How amazing is the Claris FileMaker Platform? It’s more than 10 years now that I’m a professional Claris FileMaker Developer.But today I was again amazed about how complete, versatile and powerful the features of the platform is.And that, just out-of-the-box! A little bit of context 10 years ago: we built a CRM […]

This blog is about how FileMaker gained Seppe’s interests,how Seppe started learning about FileMaker, the differences between other coding platforms and how Seppe ended up at ClickWorks.

Claris FileMaker Excellence Winner ClickWorks recognized for Achievements in the ability to solve complex and technically challenging projects with Claris FileMaker. CUPERTINO, Calif. – Dec. 15, 2021 – Claris International Inc., an Apple company, named ClickWorks as the winner of the Claris FileMaker Excellence Award as part of the Claris Excellence Awards for 2021, which honor Claris […]

Introduction Do you want to access a User’s calendar? Or maybe send e-mails from within FileMaker that appear in the Sent Items folder, without using an e-mail client? With the Microsoft Graph API you can connect to resources on Office 365, its Azure Portal and Windows. This allows powerful integrations from within your FileMaker custom […]

Cloud, On premises and hybrid installations of FileMaker Server Claris is moving towards towards a Saas (Software as a Service) model. The strategy is Cloud first – but not Cloud only. Here at ClickWorks we fully support this. Although we also believe on-premises or “own-cloud” solutions are not going to disappear soon. If you have […]

Introduction You can connect to the FileMaker Data API using OAuth 2.0. The steps involved are described in the FileMaker Data API Guide. Trying to make this work with a PHP client application, I found out that there are some caveats. In this blog article, we will walk through all steps involved to connect a […]

Don Clark from FileMakerProGurus.com had already referenced several of our blog articles on his site. We met him in Las Vegas at this year’s FileMaker DevCon. He had tranformed his hotel suite in a video recording studio and we had a very nice talk about many topics, including: Our favorite clients Our favorite work The things […]

In pre FM16 versions we were limited to a HTTP GET request to open a WebDirect file with a url. This would just open the file with the default login credentials or, if no default credentials specified in the file options, it would bring us to the login page of FileMaker WebDirect. This limited us […]