Been diving into FM for a few months now and this is a great video. Curious if there is anywhere to get a more recent Help documentation pdf. The link you have in the video description leads to the right page, but the "Claris FileMaker Pro 19 Help (Download)" link leads to a 404 page now. Would love to have an offline version of the Docs.

So this requires a plug in? Please always flag if non native FM!

Thank you, Matt, for your unique attention to design. A typical programmer will pay no mind to the design or even UI/UX in general, and a typical designer will know very little about tying UI to the functionality. Your perspective becomes valuable for those who what to enhance functionality with functional design.

I do a lot of FM scripting. How do you make the script text larger?

3 Years into my FileMaker development and watching this again; I finally understand everything you are talking about. Thank for providing this video. 🙏

Is it possible to use the custom function on borders/backgrounds etc? Example: I have a title that's at the top of each 'section' that should have a background color dependent on the layout table, the box has a 2px border at the top that is a darker variant of the color.

There used to be an iOS app that picked a number of colors from an image; 5 was it? Perhaps it was called Adobe KULR?

Thanks Matt!!!

The hide condition only works in a master-detail portal !? In a regular portal with releated records it doesn't... unless I missed something ?!

35:37 Why are you concerned about character length? Is it because of having to transfer data from and to the cloud where the solution is hosted??

Just noticed this channel already has 256 videos out! That's a round number, 0x100 hex :-) Congratulations!

I'm glad Alexey is getting some credit and reward for this

Very eye opening and informative video. Thank you, Matt.

Great video! Thanks Matt and Alexis MBS Plugin allows you to limit the number of available functions using Plugin.SetFunctions function. You may just need 20 of our over 7500 functions. See also Plugin.LimitFunction and Plugin.LockFunction functions. And please don't just call Evaluate() anywhere directly with text input from the user. At least check for brackets, double colons and backslashes for the case the user likes to hack your database.

Great video, thanks a lot //Greetings from Sweden

Thanks Matt, great video, all true and to the point. Indeed, the vulnerabilities are quite serious. I was happy to help find and close them. Maybe Claris can patch older versions too ? In the meantime really everyone should upgrade.

Those Russians again... Apple may not have been able to pay any money because of the sanctions. I know they did stop all the payments for any Russian-sourced apps in the App store.

That should be all built in FileMaker Pro !

Great Video Matt it would be great if we could get a better understanding off how to set the Environment correctly Apple Script vs Typinator and inline vs disc storage and if possible could we get some samples of Typinator Filemaker extension

The line number thing is a known issue with Monkey Bread and increasing the font size. I've asked Christian about it, and he said that he can control the font of the script steps, but he can't change the UI of the line numbers.

As always Matt »» great video. Every time I hear "Node-Red" I think of the movie "A Few Good Men" with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson where Tom Cruise asks Jack "Did you order the 'Code-Red?" Well we can easily change that line to "Did you program in Node-Red?" ( lol ). All kidding aside, this looks like a fun technology »» thank you for the introduction. I could easily see a series on this and I for one would enjoy watching that if you decide to do one. Great work Matt !!!

This is really nice, but I'm having a problem trying to filter out duplicate records from a portal based solely on the Filter calculation. Is there a good method? My status quo: Portal based on child table shows related records. There are two fields (let's call them CODE and WEIGHT) that can constitute a duplicate if they both are identical to another record, so duplicate by a combination of fields. My goal: Show only one occurrence of every record, making it unique by combination of CODE and WEIGHT, and hide all subsequent duplicates. I can't modify the data or the schema of the table in question. I'm reading the values from the portal to later use them in scripts, so I can only rely on the filter calculation.

Great video Matt and 2 fabulous guests with Robert and Josh. Cool stuff. I may go to the "Single-pass loop for error handling" thanks to Josh. ;). Please do more of these type of videos as it's always great to learn about other tools a developer can use with FileMaker to make the overall development experience less stressful and more productive.

Hi Matt, have been trying to find a way to open a web-page in another browser, not the default. By passing a variable, can't seem to get it to work at all. Have you done anything on this problem? Thanks

Thank's a lot Matt!

Still waiting for Filemaker feature that can make a Video Clip a background in the Layout. And also, make the slides "auto-slide".

So many years had passed Still can't make a video a Background on Layout. Also, Can't make a search bar capable of handling a quick search on 200,000 records. The program lags on search.

As a person who doesn't use the table view all that often » this was very helpful and I love the tip regarding making timestamp fields custom with leading zeros and having year first. The font change to a 'mono' style font is another I will use. AND I really will take advantage of adding a TEMP field to do replace field contents. Good stuff.

Thank you

1:17:17 ^^Gem!

Matt. You are a very talented educator. However, you run way too fast to follow along. Slow down and provide context as you click around and zoom in and out (making viewers seasick)

Hi, why do you use Get( RecordNumber ) for the array for $render? I would also use Get( RecordID ). Because if any user is deleting a record while your printing script is running, you have the have the chance to have the wrong qrcode...

What is triggering the OnObjectSave event on the search field? The only time you are committing is with backspace or escape via OnObjectKeystroke

I dont have the luxury of combining my tables before..so how do I do with multiple tables without merging tables?

Thanks a lot

2:41 Why do we have two defaults?

Hi Matt. Thanks for your high quality video. Based upon what you've said about tabe occurence (only aliases) I wanted to do a big cleaning around to go back to a blank relationship graph but then all my layouts show "<Unrelated table>" in the fields. Impossible to reconnect my numerous records to any layout. What can we do if that happens? Why did this happen as you were saying it was only aliases. I don't find any answer on FM Forum. If ever you had an advice? Thanks.

Can you use application with local LLM?

I do something similiar using Execute SQL (much simpler) and a table with all button labels). Adding a button, however needs manual copy paste (except I would include placeholders)....I will take a look at your solution. Learnt so much from you over the last two decades!!!

You're a marvellous pedagogue beside your real abilities in mastering this software. My mum just told me today that looking backward in her own times, approaching filemaker, there was only this huge paper documentation whereas nowadays tutorials are so practical : thanks to people teaching like Matt Petrowsky. Best rgds

At around 6:00, you talk about how mobile is slower than desktop. Is this still a concern in 2024?

You can just rename FileMaker Pro and have 10 different versions installed on a Mac. I love to have 18 versions installed here for testing.

53:18 Would element type be JSON or ION?

Apple stopped distributing Python 2.7 starting with macOS 12.3.

Is the thumbnail a ship about to sink ? :-)

RIP RezEdit

Did I miss something? You began by introducing the "Launcher" app. As far as I can tell, we never got back to making that app operational. While I found your introduction to FileMaker development extremely useful--for which I'm very appreciative--I'm left unsatisfied with that "hanging chad." Tangential side-barring is common human behavior and certainly can be useful when creating on the fly. I would characterize this presentation as something of a Mandelbrot set fractal having intricate details and self-similar patterns, but not closing on expectations. In any case, thank you for advancing my understanding of this amazing product.

Video marker 19:32 you mentioned a key expansion tool to time stamp a script comment. Please explain in detail, I think quickly/easily time stamping script comments is very useful and important. Thank you for the how to videos, they are very helpful and educational... keep up the amazing work.

I have problem with my Filemaker Pro Invoice. I have upgrade my Filemaker pro 14 when I change my new computer and cannot be use anymore. So I purchase the single user Filemaker pro 2024. Completed installation, all goes well, I can open my old files for couple of day. But yesterday, when I open the Filemaker all the file become ??????????. HOw can I solve this isuue?

My brain is stuck at v11😬