The bBox plug-in now supports XPath queries. Here are some basics on its use.

We’re pleased to announce Beez who earned the title of FileMaker 12 Certified Developer. FileMaker 12 Certification is the official credential offered by FileMaker, Inc., certifying a developer as achieving an "essential level of knowledge, experience and skills in developing FileMaker solutions."

It’s hard to believe it’s been only a few months since SQL was introduced as part of FileMaker 12. In the short time since, developers have quickly put this new capability to use with style and passion, publishing FileMaker SQL tutorials, demos, and development tools almost too many to number. With all this activity, it’s easy to forget that our use of SQL in FileMaker solutions is still in its early stages. We’re just getting our toes wet in the vast ocean of SQL. This is a very good thing: The best is still to come…

Beezwax Announces InspectorPro 4 for FileMaker 12 Leading Developer Tool Now Up To 10x Faster, Provides Deeper Analysis for FileMaker 12 Databases MIAMI, Fla. – July 16, 2012 – Beezwax Datatools, Inc. today announced InspectorPro 4, a major new version of the leading developer tool for FileMaker 12 database analysis. Rewritten from the ground up […]

Create virtual plugins for FileMaker Go 12 using a technique called 'JavaScript Go'. Like a mad scientist... add 'new life' — power, functionality and excitement — to your mobile database apps.

I needed to investigate why a script was being run, and I was pretty sure cron was launching it. The problem was, little useful information was being logged, and no one was sure how it had been set up or what user it was under. Although launchd is now the preferred mechanism on Mac OS […]

How the Self function can give you a label’s text.

Can you call the Mac OS X Cocoa API from a FileMaker script? Yes, you can…but not directly. This example shows how to call the PDFDocument class to query a file’s attributes and then write out a modified version.

Here’s a free AppleScript to get a FileMaker object "any object" off the clipboard as text. See how FileMaker really describes its objects!

Here’s how to incorporate virtually any UI control you see on the web directly into your FileMaker 12 Pro — and FileMaker Go —  layouts.

The FileMaker 12 product line is here! Keep reading to see what we think the most exciting new possibilities are with the new versions of FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server and FileMaker Go.