FileMaker Developer Conference

August 6-9, 2018
Gaylord Texan Resort
Dallas, Texas

It’s the annual FileMaker DevCon, happening for the first time in North Texas! Join us, your friends at Harmonic, at a gathering of 1500 developers to attend informative and empowering sessions (three of which will be put on by members of our team!), visit our booth in the Vendors Hall, and have the time of your life networking with developers from all over the world!

Find out more here.

Harmonic is an Emerald Level Sponsor of the 2018 FileMaker Developer Conference.
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Google API Integrations

Wednesday, August 8 2018
Gaylord Texan Resort
1:30pm – 2:30pm

Session Description

FileMaker has all the native tools you need to integrate with the world of Google—but where do you start? In this session we’ll walk through the journey of integrating a simple FileMaker file with Google. We’ll teach you how to setup your Google account for access, how to teach FileMaker the “secret handshake” (now you’re in the club), and how to utilize Google’s JSON responses in meaningful ways. We’ll provide examples of integrating with the Google apps we have all come to know and use in our every day lives.

Recommended Background

Experience with the Insert from URL script step, REST APIs, cURL, and JSON.

Session Objectives

    • Understanding Google’s API needs
    • How to setup the “handshake” in FileMaker
    • What to do with these JSON responses
    • Real world uses with Google & FileMaker in action

Use JSON to Get Arrays

Tuesday, August 7 2018
Gaylord Texan Resort
1:30pm – 2:30pm

Session Description

JSON is the new lingua franca of inter system communication, including FileMaker’s Data API, but in this session, there are no APIs allowed. There are many other useful reasons to learn and understand JSON and integrate it into your system, even without an outside API. Use FileMaker’s native JSON functions to build a data-driven culture. JSON empowers you to create a database within a database. Organize data and move it quickly from where you have it to where you need it.

Recommended Background

Basic calculation, scripting, and function skills.

Session Objectives

    • Use FileMaker JSON functions to get started quickly
    • Understand JSON structure & syntax – {Objects} vs [Arrays]
    • Datapoint consolidation and schema alternatives—multiple script parameters, variable consolidation
    • Applying JSON to the real world

Scripting Opportunities

Wednesday, August 8 2018
Gaylord Texan Resort
10:30am – 11:30am

Description

The FileMaker Platform can support your users and their work processes by automating repetitive tasks. This session will help you identify those opportunities, and show you how to quickly and elegantly script the most commonly performed operations like Finds, Sorts, Exports and Imports, Reporting, Navigation, Opening and Closing files, and much more. We’ll empower ourselves to empower our users and learn how to be the heroes our companies need—and deserve. We’ll also discuss how to optimize our scripts to make them easier to work with going forward for the benefit of the next developer who will look at them—which is usually ourselves.

Recommended Background

Basic calculation, scripting, and function skills.

Session Objectives

    • Learn common script commands, techniques, and mistakes to avoid
    • How to use script variables and script parameters to temporarily store important information
    • How to use subscripts and modular scripting to handle repetitive tasks
    • Design considerations on whether to combine multiple tasks in a single script or use separate scripts for each task

Meet FileMaker 17

We’ll be presenting the new features of FileMaker Pro 17 at the Apple Store, 3101 Knox Street, Dallas, TX 75205, Wednesday, July 25th, 6:00 PM!!

Meet the FileMaker 17 Platform!

Join us for a special event showcasing the new FileMaker 17 Platform. Discover how to quickly create and use custom apps that work the way you do. We’ll explore innovative, new features in the FileMaker 17 Platform that improve the development, mobility, security, integration, and administration of your custom apps. Join us for an exciting 60-minute presentation by Paul Mitchell, Senior FileMaker Developer at Harmonic Software Production Studios. You won’t want to miss this event!

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