When you open the database definition dialog and go to the tab for relationships, the MBS FileMaker Plugin adds a combobox to the layout. You can type something, press return and we search the graph for the item matching the name. If needed, you can click on the search box again, press return and continue the search.
New for the upcoming 16.4 release is the support for the search field in the reduced manage database dialog:
This dialog appears when you go into Manage Database from a calculation in some parts of FileMaker Pro. The same change is coming to Windows soon.
Greetings from the
FileMaker conference in Salzburg. We are happy to be here with about 60 developers to shop talk three days about FileMaker. Thanks to Bernhard for organizing the conference on short notice. The weather is a bit rainy, but that won't stop us from having a great conference.
If you like to join another conference, please check our
list of events here.
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E-Rechnungen selbst erzeugen, empfangen, prüfen und visualisieren
Die E-Rechnung ist inzwischen mehr als ein PDF, das per E-Mail verschickt wird. Eine echte E-Rechnung enthält strukturierte Daten, die von Software automatisch verarbeitet werden können.
Für Unternehmen, die ihre Geschäftsprozesse mit FileMaker abbilden, stellt sich deshalb eine interessante Frage:
Warum sollte die E-Rechnung außerhalb der eigenen FileMaker-Lösung verarbeitet werden?
Mit dem MBS FileMaker Plugin lassen sich wesentliche Teile des kompletten E-Rechnungsprozesses direkt in FileMaker umsetzen:
- XML erzeugen
- XML aus eingehenden Rechnungen auslesen
- XSD-Strukturen prüfen
- Geschäftsregeln mit Saxon und XSLT prüfen
- E-Rechnungen visualisieren
- ZUGFeRD-/Factur-X-PDFs erzeugen
- XML in PDF/A-3 einbetten
- fertige Rechnungen erneut validieren
- Originaldaten für die Aufbewahrung in FileMaker archivieren
Und das alles lokal, ohne dass die Rechnungsdaten für die Validierung an einen externen Web Service übertragen werden müssen.
New in this prerelease of version 16.4 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
- Updated DynaPDF to version 5.0.5.16.
- Added FM.Relations function.
- Fixed a memory leak in CURL MQTT receiving.
- Fixed a memory leak in FM.SQL.JSONColumn function.
- Fixed a memory leak in DynaPDF.Parser.Content function.
- Fixed a memory leak in the WebViewer message handling.
- Fixed a memory leak in the WebView.Evaluate function for Windows.
- Fixed a memory leak in CURL.GetHeaderAsJSON function.
- Fixed a memory leak in Phidgets event handling.
- Fixed a memory leak in XML to JSON conversion.
- Improved relationship search to show up in the smaller manage database dialog triggered from a field calculation.
- Added support for password fields for Windows to our Dialog functions.
- Improved search over all scripts. Optionally store settings, highlights RegEx, find following steps and filter for disabled steps.
- Updated PCRE2 to version 10.48.
- Updated mongo-c-driver to version 2.5.3.
- Added ScriptWorkspace.SetFocusToScript function.
- Improved ScriptWorkspace.SetFocusToScriptList function.
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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20 years of the MBS FileMaker Plugin—that’s quite an impressive time span. For two decades, the plugin has been enhancing FileMaker with features that go far beyond what’s possible with the platform’s built-in tools.
I’ve been working at MBS since 2019 and, since then, of course have also been working with the MBS FileMaker Plugin. During this time, I’ve discovered, tested, and used countless features in FileMaker projects. Some of them are little helpers that save a lot of work in everyday tasks. Others open up possibilities that you might not have even thought were possible without the plugin.
To mark the 20th anniversary, I’d like to share a few of my personal favorite features that have guided me on my journey as a developer.
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Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch.
A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube.
We talk about the new version 16.3 of MBS Plugin. Check out the announcement, the release notes and the new functions.
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Our MBS Plugin started 20 years ago with a release 1.0 in 2006. We didn't expect this to be such a big part of our lives, but how did we get started?
A bit of history
Even back in 2001 when I just started to work on my first plugins for REALbasic, I have emails from people like Todd Geist looking for someone to help write a FileMaker plugin. In the next years we saw similar requests from Nils Waldherr, Ralf Sander and others. In 2003 I got the copy of the FMP SDK, but I didn't get warm with it. In 2004 I got more inquiries from Chris Griffin, Tony Tanevski and even someone named Wim Decorte asking for a FileMaker integration.
In 2006 I saw Todd Geist asking again for help with an Xcode project. Claris released version 7 with a newer and better SDK. Thanks to Markus Herter for pointing me to the new FileMaker SDK. The discussion with Todd got productive with a list of desired functions and I started to build an Xcode project. Todd showed some plugin functions at a Claris DevCon and we had the first people interested to try the plugin. You can still see the
list of 1.0 functions here and
a copy of the announcement here.
Thanks to everyone pushing me to the right direction!
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We have a few customers who use document databases to store Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other documents in a FileMaker database.
To preview these documents in a container field, we need to generate a preview image for each document. JPEG, PNG, and a few other image formats can be displayed directly. However, Office documents need to be converted into images, and this requires an application that can correctly handle document layouts, page breaks, and other formatting.
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New in this prerelease of version 16.4 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
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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With the recent DynaPDF update 5.0.4, you can place SVG drawings on a page in a PDF document. By converting all SVG drawing commands into PDF drawing commands, the graphics is preserved as a vector graphics. This avoids any pixelation that a bitmap graphics would have.
You can load a SVG from file with DynaPDF.LoadSVGFile or with container (DynaPDF.LoadSVG. Then query the sizes and insert the graphics to the current open page in a PDF document with DynaPDF.InsertSVG. There you pass a rectangle and optional the name of the symbol.
When you insert a SVG into a PDF page, you can change the size of the drawing by passing a different width and height. You can pick the position where to place and apply transformations if needed. This allows you to rotate the drawing, mirror it or stretch it in one or both axes. You can use SVG drawings for templates and stamp annotations.
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New in this prerelease of version 16.4 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
New functions in documentation
Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip
Downloads at monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/:
You can subscribe to our FileMaker mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.