This is the third and final post in a series on using the Gmail API from FileMaker. Please review the previous articles, if you haven’t already, particularly the first one which covers setting your app up with Google and authentication. There’s also a great article by Brendan McBride from dbservices that covers importing emails from an inbox into FileMaker. This article can be seen as the first in…
This is the second in a series of articles on using the Gmail API from FileMaker. The first article has some background on this approach as well as instructions for authenticating to the Gmail API and sending HTML emails. Please review that article here if you haven’t already. Additionally, there’s a great post by dbservices on integrating Gmail with FileMaker that lead to these articles and should be checked…
This is the first in a series of articles on using the Gmail API from FileMaker. We’ll provide free example files for each post and these examples will all use the native Insert From URL script step so there won’t be any plug-ins required. In this article, we’re going to look at sending HTML emails. In future articles, I’ll examine sending large emails (35MB) with multiple attachments, resumable…
Here’s an example file you can use to print web viewers in FileMaker 16. We use DayBack Calendar as an example, but you can use these scripts in your own file too. The scripts manage the window sizing which can make printing web viewers tricky. They also use the free ScriptMaster plugin to make PDFs for printing since FileMaker 16 no longer supports printing web viewer content on…
The Layout Objects window in FileMaker 16 didn’t impress me at first. It seemed like a solution to a problem we didn’t have: developers were already grouping and naming objects so they could move grouped objects out of way when editing layouts. But the more I see it in action, the more I recognize in it what makes working in Photoshop so straight forward: Photoshop supports document “layers” and…
The new FileMaker 16 card windows give you some great options for integrating DayBack Calendar with your other layouts. Here’s a short video with a few examples of what you can do: Why Card Windows? Card windows let you see the calendar in the context of decisions you’re making on other layouts. They make it just a little easier to check your schedule. And you’re much less likely to over promise…
This post will show you how to schedule GoToMeetings from DayBack Calendar using the new cURL and JSON functions in FileMaker 16, as well as how to do it in JavaScript if you’re using DayBack Online. Custom actions in DayBack let you add your own buttons to your events in the calendar. These buttons run your own FileMaker scripts and are a great way to extend the calendar’s…
DayBack Calendar and all our shipping products work great in FileMaker 16. If you got a SeedCode app before FM16 shipped on May 9th, 2017 you may need to make a few small changes to bring it up to date. Here’s what you need to know: DayBack Calendar: FM16 added a security option to the fmp:// url protocol that you’ll need to enable in your files. This is…
FileMaker™ 16 introduces native JSON parsing which may finally give us a common language for passing multiple script parameters. This should make sharing scripts a lot easier. And while unpacking (reading) JSON script parameters is pretty simple, there are a few tricks to passing (writing) JSON using FileMaker’s new functions. Overview: better script parameters The new release of FileMaker 16 includes built-in functions for reading and writing JSON: a lightweight data-interchange…
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