These lessons are based on the membership database of a fictitious travel firm, The Corporate Travelers Club. It takes approximately four hours to complete this tutorial, which can be done in one session or several shorter sessions.
You will learn how to use FileMaker Pro software to:ġ create and enter records in a simple databaseġ create calculations, buttons, and scriptsġ create relationships between FileMaker Pro database tablesġ learn how files can be shared with other users on your network or over the Internetġ protect information in your database by assigning user accounts and privilege sets and by backing up your databases This tutorial shows you how you can manage your information in FileMaker Pro.
Perform a series of tasks using a script.Generate values with a calculation field.Assign a value list to a field and display it as radio buttons.Customize the letter with the company name.Create a simple database and define fields.Find records that match a range of criteria in the same field.Find records that match multiple criteria in the same field.Find records based on criteria in separate fields.Find records based on criteria in a single field.View your layouts as forms, lists, and tables.Open a database and move between records.We’re happy to help your team determine the best way to leverage them within your FileMaker solution. If you have any questions about how to leverage the FileMaker Data API or any other new features included in FileMaker 16, please contact our team. The licensing pricing model is unknown at this point too.
The API will likely undergo tweaks before its official release. However, be careful when committing to it for production projects. It is an exciting and promising addition to FileMaker developers’ integration arsenal. Any REST url pointing to this record through its original record id will break. Your primary key will still be the same, but the internal record id will change. For example, if you delete the record from the FileMaker file and re-import the same record from a backup, the record id will be different. That record id is not as set in stone as it needs to be to permanently point to the same record. It also requires using the internal record id of a record to identify the record. It does not have the ability to execute scripts, a capability both XML and PHP APIs boast. There are definitely some downsides to the Data API. We will keep our ear to the ground on this. We have one caveat: it is unclear at this point if the use of the new FileMaker Data API – once officially released – will require some sort of connection-pack licensing. This detailed documentation provides good examples of what to send and what you receive in return. Online help for FileMaker Data API is available on the machine where FileMaker Server is installed, at the URL shown below. The web service then replies with a response in the JSON format. The most common header here is the authentication token to prove that you are an authorized user.Īnd finally, a JSON-formatted body contains the data you want to send to your FileMaker app. The next part of the request is one or more headers.
Then use one of the HTTP methods (verbs) to indicate what your desired action is (GET to retrieve data, POST to create records, PUT to update records, DELETE to delete). You can reach the web service (your FileMaker app) through a URL endpoint that looks something like this: (We’ll explain the structure of this URL later.) It essentially turns your FileMaker app into a web service. It’s a very powerful and welcome addition to the FileMaker product line. Any application or system that can make an HTTP call and works with received JSON data in response can use FileMaker Data API. It’s open to any kind of integration, not just web services. The truth is – it’s even better than that. Its description explains that web services can use it to access FileMaker data.