For our clients with plugin licenses for Monkeybread Software, we have a database with licenses and their email contacts.
Each license has multiple emails:
- a primary email for renewal reminders and newsletters about new versions.
- more emails as CC of licenses.
e.g. the administrator or developer to install the license.
- older alternative emails that are marked as old.
- sometimes an extra email just for invoices.
If you contact us with one of the emails and we search the database, we find your record.
When you buy a license for a client, we can put your email as developer in our database, so all communication goes through you. We would still like to know the name of the client and use it for the license keys.
Since you may disappear and clients still may need to renew, we appreciate having the client's email in the database as an alternative one. Then we can ask them directly if they like to renew. Since we do this for 20 years, we have seen multiple developers retire already.
When you order a license for a client in the web shop, you put in the billing address. That may be either the client itself if they pay themselves or your company if you buy it for the client and bill them later. When you use your address, consider adding somewhere a few letters for indicating which customer an order applies to. Or better email us the details for the client separately. If you order an update for one of your clients, we may apply it automatically to the one where we sent the last renewal reminder.
If you already have a couple of clients with MBS Plugin licenses, you can contact us if we should change the primary email for their licenses.
New in this prerelease of version 16.3 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
- Added CNContactPicker.CurrentProperties function.
- Added CNContactPicker.GetDisplayedKeys and CNContactPicker.SetDisplayedKeys functions.
- Added Command-Option-T shortcut for the calculation editor to insert the current selected table occurrence in the popup menu into the text.
- Added CURL.GetSizeDelivered function.
- Added flag 4 for WebView.CreateWindow function to make the window a floating palette.
- Added flags to return JSON for SpeechRecognition.Recognize function.
- Added GridFS functions for MongoDB functions: MongoDB.GridFS.Close, MongoDB.GridFS.Drop, MongoDB.GridFS.Find, MongoDB.GridFS.FindOne, MongoDB.GridFS.FindOneByFileName, MongoDB.GridFS.GetChunks, MongoDB.GridFS.GetFiles, MongoDB.GridFS.Open, MongoDB.GridFS.Read, MongoDB.GridFS.Remove, MongoDB.GridFS.RemoveByFileName and MongoDB.GridFS.Write.
- Added JBIG2Lossy as option for DynaPDF.GetImage function.
- Added Keychain.AddGenericPassword, Keychain.DeleteGenericPassword, Keychain.FindGenericPassword, Keychain.ListGenericPasswords and Keychain.UpdateGenericPassword functions.
- Added PageRanges, PrinterName, PagesPerSide, Copies, Collation, ColorMode and Duplex parameters for WebView.SetPrintParameter function on Windows.
- Added Printer.CancelJob and Printer.GetJobsAsJSON functions.
- Added width and height for DynaPDF.GetField to ask for field size.
- Added XL.Sheet.AutoFilter.GetSortEx and XL.Sheet.AutoFilter.SortLevels functions.
- Added XL.Sheet.DataValidation, XL.Sheet.DataValidationSize and XL.Sheet.DataValidations functions.
- Added XL.Table.IsAutoFilter and XL.Table.RemoveFilter functions.
- Fixed a possible crash in GMImage.DrawPath function.
- Fixed an issue on Linux where Barcode.Generate didn't create a picture due to a link issue using the wrong zint library version (broken in 16.2).
- Fixed an issue with JSON.InsertRecord crashing when you have illegal type mismatches in the parameters.
- Fixed DynaPDF.GetField to return the correct BBox.
- Fixed memory leak in MongoDB.NowUTC, MongoDB.Time, MongoDB.ContainerToBinary and MongoDB.TextToBinary functions.
- Fixed memory leaks in Llama.Tokenize and Llama.Detokenize functions.
- Improved fmp: URL handling to work with newer version depending fmp URLs.
- Improved Llama.Chat and Llama.Query to yield time after 1000 tokens.
- Improved memory management for MongoDB functions.
- Updated CURL library to version 8.20.0.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 5.0.2.11.
- Updated expat to version 2.8.1.
- Updated jsoncons to version 1.7.0.
- Updated lcms to version 2.19.1.
- Updated LibXL to version 5.2.0.
- Updated mongo-c-driver to version 2.3.0.
- Updated Xcode to version 26.5.
New functions in documentation
Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip
Downloads at monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/:
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