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Claris Engage 2020: It’s About You
Day two of Claris Engage opened with Srini Gurrapu, VP of Product and Design, sharing the company’s strategy for its products and providing a glimpse into what lays ahead for its customers. It was – A LOT. People First The team continued its focus on its community. John Sindelar shared how to connect SeedCode’s DayBack […]
Claris, an Apple Subsidiary
Notable in Claris’ rollout was the absence of the tagline, “an Apple Subsidiary”, but Claris and Apple are more in alignment than ever before.
Goodbye DevCon, Hello Claris Engage!
Ultimately, DevCon is always a blur from visiting old friends, making new ones, and filling your brain with new ideas about development techniques. This year, however, opened with some exciting news; FileMaker is now Claris… again. In addition, Claris has acquired a company called Stamplay that specializes in creating seamless integrations between many cloud-based applications. […]
First Time At DevCon
As an intern and a new developer, I didn’t expect to go to the FileMaker Developer Conference so soon. But thanks to Codence, I went to the conference this summer. It was a big surprise and as I found out later, not the last surprise that was waiting for me during this trip. Day 0: […]
FileMaker is Here to Stay.
The FileMaker software may be here to stay, but Claris intends to expand their reach further than ever before. Learn more.
Claris’ Product Vision
Make no mistake, Claris is not simply a newly rebranded FileMaker, Inc. Learn more about the Product Visionary Keynote.
Create ROI From Your Custom Apps
Evaluate the quantitative business value you can achieve using clearly defined objectives to guide the development of your custom business application.
Manufacturing Automation: Save Time and Money
Lockdowns and massive shifts in consumer demand have forced many manufacturers to shift their approach to stay afloat. Throughout the industry, you’ll see organizations looking for creative solutions to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and use technology to make better decisions faster. Challenges around data management, inefficient workflows, and lack of end-to-end transparency create barriers to […]
Q&A with Jerry Gonzales
Jerry is a business software consultant at heart, with hands-on development skills utilizing various programming languages (FileMaker being his favorite) and databases. He is certified in Agile Scrum as a Product Owner and will be a Tech Lead here at Codence.
Q&A with Andrea de Fraga
Andi recently joined Codence as Business Analyst. She comes with a solid finance background, and she will mainly focus her efforts on our Genesis products and clients. Please get to know a bit more about our newest team member below! – How did you find out about Codence, and what made you excited to apply? Danielle […]
Q&A with Shamma Qureshi
Shamma is a Full-Stack Web Developer with a background in Biology and Education. She recently transitioned into a career in tech after completing General Assembly’s Software Engineering Immersive and joined the Codence team as an Apprentice. When she’s not coding, she’s either fangirling about BTS or making travel plans with her family. – Tell us, […]
FileMaker and Adobe Sign Integration
Extend your custom FileMaker solution further and streamline your workflows with digital signatures through an Adobe Sign integration.
The Future of the Claris Platform
Codence is excited to introduce Claris’ latest app development tools while exploring its incredible value to FileMaker development partners.
Q&A Spotlight with Phil Bowman
Phil is taking the role of Application Developer at Codence. Learn more about our newest team member.
Create ROI From Your Custom Apps
Evaluate the quantitative business value you can achieve using clearly defined objectives to guide the development of your custom business application.
Claris Engage Beyond ’21 Keynote
Claris wants to empower developers to do what they do best – create powerful digital solutions easily and efficiently. Catch up on highlights from the Keynote session.
The Benefits of Low-code Development
Innovating quickly and boosting productivity has never been more important to businesses.
Strategies for Effective Inventory Management
Today’s customers have an increasing expectation of an Amazon-level of transparency in all stages of delivery, even in the direct-to-business world. In order to streamline your workflows and create the needed level of transparency across your organization, from back office to the production floor, all the way through shipping, effective inventory management is the key […]
Manufacturing Automation: Save Time and Money
Lockdowns and massive shifts in consumer demand have forced many manufacturers to shift their approach to stay afloat. Throughout the industry, you’ll see organizations looking for creative solutions to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and use technology to make better decisions faster. Challenges around data management, inefficient workflows, and lack of end-to-end transparency create barriers to […]
Estimates, Quotes and Budgets… Oh My!
In this post, Scott Love shares some of the wisdom our team has collected along the way and a glossary of estimate terms to help.
Q&A with Jerry Gonzales
Jerry is a business software consultant at heart, with hands-on development skills utilizing various programming languages (FileMaker being his favorite) and databases. He is certified in Agile Scrum as a Product Owner and will be a Tech Lead here at Codence.
Q&A with Andrea de Fraga
Andi recently joined Codence as Business Analyst. She comes with a solid finance background, and she will mainly focus her efforts on our Genesis products and clients. Please get to know a bit more about our newest team member below! – How did you find out about Codence, and what made you excited to apply? Danielle […]
Q&A with Shamma Qureshi
Shamma is a Full-Stack Web Developer with a background in Biology and Education. She recently transitioned into a career in tech after completing General Assembly’s Software Engineering Immersive and joined the Codence team as an Apprentice. When she’s not coding, she’s either fangirling about BTS or making travel plans with her family. – Tell us, […]
FileMaker and Adobe Sign Integration
Extend your custom FileMaker solution further and streamline your workflows with digital signatures through an Adobe Sign integration.
The Future of the Claris Platform
Codence is excited to introduce Claris’ latest app development tools while exploring its incredible value to FileMaker development partners.
Q&A Spotlight with Phil Bowman
Phil is taking the role of Application Developer at Codence. Learn more about our newest team member.
All About Claris Engage Executive Q&A
At the Claris Engage Beyond 2021 event, Chief Executive Officer Brad Freitag and Vice President of Engineering Peter Nelson sat down for an Executive Q&A session to discuss the changes shaping the future of Claris and its core FileMaker™ offering. Together they were able to provide transparency and insight into how Claris is ramping up […]
PauseOnError: FileMaker Summer Camp
After a year or more of meeting from our own four walls, we ditch virtual and walls completely by joining fellow Claris FileMaker developers in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
FileMaker and WooCommerce Integration
Need to get your inventory products online? In this post we’ll discuss the many options available, from doing it manually to buying a ready-to-use FileMaker module for WooCommerce.
Filter and Sort FileMaker with JavaScript
Starting with FileMaker 16, developers can use native JSON function for a variety of tasks. From simple navigation and script parameters to API integrations and web viewers, JSON objects prove to be a great addition to the FileMaker platform. However, FileMaker has only six native JSON functions and these are limited to the following basic […]
Central Navigation in Claris FileMaker
…Fit for Hamilton After finally watching Hamilton, I’ve decided that everything should be set to music and rhyme. Here’s how Hamilton might manage the Federalist papers: (🎶 Twenty twenty-one At a desk 🎶) I’ve got to track my data, my IP, and my essays. Sure, I write too quickly, That is what they all say. […]
Live Formatting Modus Operandi
We recently posted an article about a magical FileMaker development technique called “Live Formatting” where we use an input mask to show the user how the data entered will be formatted and to ensure that it follows that format consistently. The technique has obvious utility for phone number fields, but can be useful for other […]
FileMaker 19.1 Release
Claris released FileMaker 19.1 a few days ago and while an incremental update may not have been newsworthy in the past, this release definitely warrants a look. (Technically this is version 19.1.2, and 19.1.1 was an internal, not-released version.) Shorter Releases It’s important to appreciate that Claris has shifted from the large 12 or 18-month […]
Live Formatting Technique
Claris FileMaker has long offered ways to parse the digits from a text string and intersperse formatting characters to provide a unified format for Phone, Social Security, and Federal ID numbers. The introduction of Custom Functions (CFs) made it possible to abstract the process by applying a “mask” template. A mask is a combination of […]
FileMaker Script Parameters using JSON
Today we are going to look at a way to use JSON for passing multiple parameters to a FileMaker script. Regardless of whether you are an experienced FileMaker developer or if you have only the barest inkling of what JSON is, not to worry, this article is designed for FileMaker developers of all skill levels.
