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Send Calendar Invitations from FileMaker with Google Calendar

December 11, 2022

We’ve been sending lots of calendar invitations from FileMaker as part of our DayBack deployments. The best workflow we’ve found invites the recipient to an event rather than creating the event right on the recipient’s calendar. This approach offers many advantages, including polling for the recipient’s response to see if they have accepted the invitation (screenshot below) Get the Unlocked Example File Jason Young packaged this into an…

Integrating FileMaker and Gmail Part 3 – Email Threads

December 16, 2018

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…

Integrating FileMaker and Gmail Part 2 – Sending Attachments

December 1, 2018

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…

Integrating FileMaker and Gmail Part 1 – Sending HTML Emails

November 18, 2018

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…

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