Sam Rulon-Miller
@rulosa01.bsky.social
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Autumn as a kid: Aw man back to school 🙁

Autumn as an adult: Hoo yea spooky season 🎃

Autumn after having kids: Everyone in my house is sick AGAIN 🤧
There’s a handful of us on here!

I currently use fmserver deployed on aws, but not Claris’ product FileMaker cloud
Anyone else on mastodon?

It is definitely quieter over there but also truly federated. It appears it’s only a matter of time before bluesky is compromised

Anyways if you are on there give me a follow - mastodon.social/@rulosa01
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Think about how evil Mark Zuckerberg could possibly be. No, that’s not evil enough
This is technically possible with the xml but is a hairy process. An app called Textmate has the ability to copy/paste FileMaker snippets to the clipboard allowing you to alter the underlying xml. I also believe the baseelements plugin can achieve this. That said it would be a nice native feature!
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FileMaker developers often skip error trapping because:
✔️ No built-in try-catch blocks
✔️ Scripts get messy
✔️ Seems like overkill

But skipping it damages security, data integrity & UX. Try our solution for the process: www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/error-t...
Innovative Approach to Error Trapping and Handling in FileMaker - Part 1 of 2
Learn about a defensive approach to FileMaker programming, in which we assert conditions in our code and trap for and handle errors.
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Ma got me a wicked new slammah at newbury comics I’m gonna slam all ya pogs kehd!
He literally looks like a Sith
W/r/t export field contents vs create data file, the former was introduced in ver 6, and the latter in version 18. I’m assuming changing the code behind export field contents was hairy/could impact legacy solutions. But you’d have to ask someone at Claris to know for certain
I’m limited on FileMaker cloud - You might be SOL

Things i would consider- use base64, write to data file, or look into the container storage-use external storage on the server and try to get the filepath of the container file and attach that

Or move from FileMaker cloud to different hosting
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Building AI Agents with #n8n and #FileMaker

🆕 New Blog and YouTube recording:

In my latest presentation, I show how FileMaker can be controlled directly by AI Agents via #MCP – and what that means for real-world automation. 🚀

🎥 Watch & read:
blog.marcel-more.de/2025/08/09/b...
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Quantum computers may soon break current encryption, but we can prepare now.

Our Cloud Native Application Practice Director, Stephen Bennett, shares insights on how "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks threaten today's data and how to protect your business: www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/protect...
The Quantum Problem: Protecting Your Data from Quantum Decryption
Learn how quantum computing could break current encryption protocols and how to future-proof your data security with quantum-safe encryption.
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Loved this game except for the whining/crying anytime baby mario would float away
There’s a session tomorrow with matt navarre i plan to check out, one of their explorer labs, with a section on “where ai excels with FileMaker and use cases”
Claris needs to present some use cases and examples of people doing things other than semantic searches. Show us how to use AI to run deep analysis on large data sets, find patterns, compare data etc beyond what a human can do
I’ve also struggled to find use cases for ai integrations in FileMaker. I’m much more intrigued by ai assisting in development (scripts and calcs). So far it’s been mostly examples of ai assisted finds etc.
Not to be confused with the very cool four toothed Mason wasp - a true garden bro
It’s amazing how these seemingly minor improvements make such an impact on developer QOL.
Then set the json values as variables like $firstname=john $lastname=smith, the variables having the same name as the field names. So a single custom function with no parameter to create variables of every field on the layout
The issue was chatgpt was certain that let couldn’t set local or global variables. After providing resources showing it was possible it did correct itself, but Claude got it right the first try. I’d have to dig out the function but it was to return the fields on the current layout as a json object