Last week, I shared an article and video about integrating FileMaker Go with the free app pic2shop. The pic2shop app allows an iPhone’s camera to be used as a barcode scanner to scan UPC and EAN barcodes. In this article, I’m going to take a look at the new CNS Barcode app from Comm-unity Networking […]
In a previous article, we shared some tips for scanning barcodes with FileMaker Go and the built-in camera on an iPhone. Here’s a short video showing the technique in action.
FileMaker Go 1.1.1 supports a new fmp7script URL scheme that allows communication with external iOS apps. Thanks to a tip from Jeremy Bante at Kyo Logic, I found a free iOS app that can scan barcodes and works with this new feature in FileMaker Go. The app is pic2shop from Vision Smarts. This article shows […]
In a previous article, we shared some of the significant changes in ODBC-related features in FileMaker 11. This article digs deeper into the specific length limits of SQL statements when using the Execute SQL script step in various versions of FileMaker Pro. How we tested We started by creating simple test databases and hosting them […]
FileMaker 11 has been released and it’s full of great new features. While not the most glamorous, one of my favorite new features is the new FileMaker ODBC drivers. The drivers have been rewritten and are much easier to install and configure on both Windows and Mac OS X. Here’s an example of one of […]