The contacts for a license

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.

MBS Xojo Plugins, version 26.3pr1

• Added AlternateHandle and DeviceNAttributesHandle properties to DynaPDFColorSpaceMBS to get the internal handles.
• Added AtomicDictionaryIteratorMBS and AtomicDictionaryEntryMBS classes.
• Added AtomicDictionaryMBS class.
• Added AutoLock and TryAutoLock methods to MutexMBS class.
• Added AutoMutexMBS class.
• Added ConvColor to DynaPDFMBS class taking DynaPDFColorSpaceMBS object.
• Added DataValidation and SheetDataValidationSize to XLSheetMBS class.
• Added GetInfoSizeDelivered to CURLSMBS class.
• Added GetSortEx and SortLevels to XLAutoFilterMBS class.
• Added HeaderCMM property to LCMS2ProfileMBS class.
• Added JBIG2Lossy property to DynaPDFImageMBS class.
• Added LockCount property to MutexMBS class.
• Added more class constants to LCMS2MBS module.
• Added more constructors to AtomicFlagMBS class.
• Added more constructors to AtomicIntegerMBS class.
• Added more methods to AtomicQueueMBS class.
• Added NetworkChanged method to CURLSMultiMBS class.
• Added NLLanguageRecognizerMBS class.
• Added NSScrollViewMBS method to DesktopScrollableArea control in Xojo 2026r2.
• Added RemoveFilter and IsAutoFilter to XLTableMBS class.
• Added ResolveThreadsMax and QuickExit properties to CURLSMultiMBS class.
• Added TransformPipeline and TransformGamutCheckPipeline property to LCMS2TransformMBS class.
• Added XLDataValidationValuesMBS class.
• Changed Alternate and DeviceNAttributes properties in DynaPDFColorSpaceMBS class to create the object on first use.
• Changed GetInfoSpeedUpload, GetInfoSpeedDownload, GetInfoSizeUpload, GetInfoSizeDownload, GetInfoContentLengthUpload and GetInfoContentLengthDownload in CURLSMBS class to be Integer instead of Double.
• Changed GetUsesTransparency in DynaPDFMBS class to return Integer instead of Boolean.
• Deprecated ResourcesDirectory in SaxonProcessorMBS class.
• Fixed an issue in FindTableName function not finding the table name in a SQL command.
• Fixed Height in DynaPDFRectMBS class. The sign was incorrect. Broken in 26.1.
• Improved LlamaMBS class to yield time after 1000 tokens.
• Improved memory management for MongoDB functions.
• Improved ReadAll and ReadAllMemory functions in MongoGridFSFileMBS to raise OutOfMemoryException in case of low memory situation.
• Improved thread locking for SQL classes to better avoid two commands running on the same connection at the same time.
• Removed LoadDLLfromMemory for SoftDeclareMBS class.
• 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

Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.

You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.

MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 16.3pr1

• 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/:

You can subscribe to our FileMaker mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.

Announcing Saxon 13.0

We got notice that Saxonica released the version 13.0 of their Saxon Library:

The first release of Saxon 13 has just been published. This is a new release for Java, C#, C/C++, PHP, and Python. The highlights in this release are:

• A redesigned Schema API that allows multiple schemas to coexist. You can now validate an input document with one schema and the result with another, even for the same namespace.
• More than 175 features from the draft 4.0 specifications are now available in Saxon-PE and Saxon-EE, including:
  • JNodes, path navigation over trees of JSON maps and arrays,
  • Lookahead and lookbehind in regular expressions,
  • Functions for CSV parsing,
  • Functions for parsing with Invisible XML, and
  • More flexible XML-to-JSON conversions with fn:element-to-map.
• On the topic of 4.0,
  • Mike recently published a list of 101 new things you can do with Saxon using 4.0 features!
  • (For more information about 4.0, see QT4CG.)
• Support for SaxonC extension functions written in C++, Python, and PHP.
• SaxonCS-HE, our first release of the free Saxon HE product built for .NET with C#.

For more details, please consult the documentation.

If you encounter any issues with Saxon 13.0, please report them on our issue tracker.

Our MBS Plugins include Saxon 12.9 currently. We will soon review the new version and integrate it into MBS Plugins. If any issues prevent that, we may report them and wait for the 13.1 version.

Our Saxon integration for FileMaker and Xojo is a powerful add-on to use XLST 3.0, XPath 3.1 and XQuery 3.1 in your solutions.

FM meets Mozart: FileMaker conference in Salzburg, Austria

Create PDF/UA with DynaPDF in FileMaker

Accessible PDF documents are becoming increasingly important for government agencies, educational institutions, and companies that want to ensure their documents can be used by everyone, including people using assistive technologies like screen readers.

With the MBS FileMaker Plugin and the integrated DynaPDF library, you can create PDF/UA compliant documents directly from FileMaker.

What is PDF/UA?

PDF/UA stands for “PDF Universal Accessibility”. It is an ISO standard (ISO 14289) that defines how to create accessible PDF documents.

A normal PDF often contains only visual information. A human reader can see headings, paragraphs, tables, or image captions, but a screen reader cannot automatically understand the structure unless the PDF also contains semantic information.

PDF/UA solves this problem by adding structure information and accessibility metadata to the PDF document.

MBS Xojo Conference 2026 - Auto Reports — run Reports in your Sleep

We recorded the presentations at the MBS Xojo Conference in April 2026 and here is the MBS Plugin presentation with David Cox:

Auto Reports — run Reports in your Sleep

Xojo is very useful for creating databases and reporting your data to the screen, a PDF, an email or a printer. Users often need to run these reports daily, weekly or monthly. But this can be a problem when staff are sick, on holidays, just too busy, we forget or when the number of reports gets too large. Auto Reports are normal Xojo reports where your Xojo application runs the reports themselves automatically based on a time or database trigger, then send the results to email or SMS with no human intervention. If you charge for your reports, you can have them delivered even when you are away from your computer, support more clients than you could manually manage and even have your invoices sent automatically.

Watch on YouTube. All videos go into the playlist for the conference.

Using DynaPDF with Data API for PDF generation

Did you know that you can use MBS FileMaker Plugin in the Data API and provide an API to the outside world to produce PDFs?

You can have an external request come in to start a script, have the script create a PDF based on the given script parameters and then store it in a contaner field. Then another call can download that specific PDF from the container field. We use a global field here for the temporary storage. On a server script, global fields act like global variables and each session has their own one. So unless you prefer to store the PDF in a new record, you could simply use a global field to keep it until the session is finished.

Let's start with installation. The MBS FileMaker Plugin and the dynapdf library files go into the /FileMaker Server/Web Publishing/publishing-engine/wip/Plugins/ folder. After you copied the plugin there, you need to restart the wip process for Data API to have it load it. Once loaded you see a new log file in the Logs folder. When the dynapdf library is in the same folder as the plugin, we can load it with "" as path. If you registered the MBS server license before on the scripting engine, the MBS FileMaker Plugin for Data API should pick that up. But it is always good to have an MBS register script to apply the license if IsRegistered functions returns a zero.

News from the MBS Xojo Plugins in version 26.2

DynaPDF

In this release, DynaPDF is all about the DynaPDF Content Parser. As PDF documents contain pages with content streams, you may be interested to inspect the content with our DynaPDFParserMBS class. You open a PDF document, you import pages into memory and then parse the page. Once you parse them page, you can access the content objects. How this works and what posibilityies you have you learn in the new Article DynaPDF Content Parser.

In DynaPDF, you can also embed tables. In this release, the SetColOrRowSpan methode from the DynaPDFTableMBS class allows you to specify the row height or column width of a cell in your table. In the parameters you first define the cell using its row and column numbers. Next, you specify the height or width of the cell. In the last parameter, you specify whether to use col span (true) or row span (false).

DynaPDF has also recently updated its licensing system. In detail the DynaPDF Starter license now includes encryption, form fields, and digital signatures. Previously, these features were part of the Lite license. If you are interested in these and other updates, we recommend reading the article DynaPDF Starter License Extended and taking a look at the product feature matrix: DynaPDF Starter vs. Lite vs. Pro vs. Enterprise

LibXL 5.2 released

Recently LibXL 5.2 was released and we include this update in our upcoming MBS Plugins for FileMaker and Xojo.

Version 5.2.0 (2026-05-15)

• fixed the vulnerability CVE-2026-22184, updated zlib to the version 1.3.2
• added possibility to read data validations from xlsx files
• added possibility to remove filters from tables (xlsx)
• added the support for xlsx files in the Book::loadWithoutEmptyCells()
• fixed a bug with reading strings with incorrect character encoding in the Sheet::readStr() on Linux/MacOSX (xls)
• fixed an issue with loading some xls files with message "read error: record id can't be 0"
• fixed an issue with corrupting output files in the AutoFilter::setSort() method (xlsx)
• fixed the unhandled exception in the Format::borderLeftColor() method (xlsx)

• Sheet::dataValidation()
• Sheet::dataValidationSize()
• Table::isAutoFilter()
• Table::removeFilter()

MBS FileMaker Plugin 16.2 News

In this article we want to introduce you the new functions from the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 16.2.

DynaPDF

This release includes new features for DynaPDF. With DynaPDF.Parser.Content, you can now retrieve the page content as JSON. In the parameters, you can limit the information in the JSON by specifying a filter. For example, the code snippet below retrieves only the DrawPath operators.

MBS Xojo Conference 2026 - MBS Plugins Update

We recorded the presentations at the MBS Xojo Conference in April 2026 and here is the MBS Plugin presentation with Christian Schmitz talking about what is new in MBS Xojo Plugins:

Watch on YouTube. All videos go into the playlist for the conference.

Make PDF certificates in calculation with DynaPDF

Today we like to make a certificate file in FileMaker with DynaPDF. And we have two ways to make this. First is a script to do the steps with Set Variable script steps. Second way is a Let() statement, where you make the PDF on the fly in a calculation. 

Bridge Day

Building a Smarter Search: Inside the MBS Script Search

Searching through FileMaker or the XML export can quickly become overwhelming. XML dumps are dense, deeply nested, and often inconsistent in formatting. That’s exactly the problem the MBS Script Search in MBS FileMaker Plugin was built to solve: a fast, flexible, browser-based search tool that makes large script collections actually usable.

This post walks through how the search works, what makes it different, and how to get the most out of it.

Understanding PDF Structure and Content Streams

MBS Xojo Conference 2026 - Xojo Update

We recorded the presentations at the MBS Xojo Conference in April 2026 and here is the keynote video with Geoff Perlman talking about what is new in Xojo:

Watch on YouTube. All videos go into the playlist for the conference.

Creating Custom Web Viewer Windows in FileMaker with MBS Plugin

The MBS FileMaker Plugin expands FileMaker's capabilities significantly. One particularly powerful feature is WebView.CreateWindow, which allows you to create fully independent web viewer windows with advanced JavaScript integration. Added in version 16.2.

Introducing Matrix.MBS: Dynamic Function Calls with Matrix Parameters

With version 16.2 of the MBS FileMaker Plugin, a powerful new function has been added: Matrix.MBS. This feature opens up a flexible way to dynamically call MBS functions using parameters stored inside a matrix.

If you’ve ever needed to construct parameter lists programmatically or pass variable-length arguments into MBS functions, this addition makes the process significantly cleaner and more scalable.

DynaPDF Content Parser

As PDF documents contain pages with content streams, you may be interested to inspect the content with our DynaPDFParserMBS class. You open a PDF document, you import pages into memory and then parse the page. Once you parse them page, you can access the content objects. That's great for a few things:

• Extract text or vector graphics
• Remove unwanted elements
• Modify drawings
• Get bounding boxes and coordinates from every item.
• Check which font is active for which text fragment.

A lot of properties in the classes are settable, so you can for example change a color easily. Or adjust a coordinate in some vector graphic or adjust the line width.

Or when you like to place a template on top of an existing page, you may need to modify the content to remove rectangle in the background, so you can see through the template to the content behind it.

Here is a sample, that marks all images for deletion and then writes the page back.

// remove all images
Var needWrite As Boolean
Var ContentParsingFlags As Integer = 0

If parser.ParsePage(page, ContentParsingFlags) Then
  
  var u as integer = parser.OperatorCount-1
  for j as integer = 0 to u
    Var content As DynaPDFParserContentMBS = parser.Content(j)
    
    if content.Operator = DynaPDFParserContentMBS.kopDrawImage then
      content.Delete
      needWrite = True
    end if
  next
  
  If needWrite Then
    Call Parser.WriteToPage
  End If
End If