Plugin Updates – HTTP POST and Sponsorships

Background Our free FileMaker plugin started it’s life as something developed entirely for ourselves. We wanted to reduce the number of plugins we were using in our BaseElements FileMaker developer tool, and couldn’t find anything that fit perfectly. It...

FileMaker Server and a Linux Webserver

You can run FileMaker Server on Mac OS X or Windows, but not Linux. But you can have a Linux based web server accessing either OS and it is quite simple to setup and run. The bonus is that because you’re following a standard FileMaker Server install it should...

Storing user preferences on disk in FileMaker Pro

One of the things I’ve done manually in BaseElements is to have the some configuration options stored in the user’s preferences folder in a text file. This helps to make it easier to have options unique for each user, but without a user table in the...

Little RefreshFM Update

Hot on the heels of yesterdays Big RefreshFM update is another smaller RefreshFM update. This one bumps the version number to 1.1.6 and has two minor fixes : Firstly the portal listing old file names is now editable, so you can modify file names directly there, or add...

Big RefreshFM Update

Available for download now is a new release of our FileMaker update automation tool, RefreshFM, bringing it to version 1.1.5. Although it’s only a minor point release in number, this version is a big update behind the scenes and has a lot of changes. I’m...