Estimated Time To Read This: 2 minutes       Instant web publishing (IWP) was first introduced to FileMaker Pro in version 4 as a quick way to publish FileMaker data on the web. It’s not a solution you are going to use in every case, however there’s quite a bit you can do with it. While your layouts won’t appear exactly the same way in the browser as they do in FileMaker Pro (you’ll probably have to play around with the layout a little bit to make it look right on the web), virtually ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 2 – 3 minutes       One of the best kept secrets of FileMaker Pro 9 would have to be the addition of support for the data protocol.  The data protocol is not a FileMaker creation, but its support is new to the application, and it should be a welcome addition to both developers and end-users alike.  Now that FileMaker’s web viewer control supports this protocol, it means that the viewer itself no longer has to look to a web site on the world-wide-web or even one that is stored ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 4 – 6 minutes       FileMaker Inc. recently released version 8.5 of its FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced software. One of the new features, the web viewer control, is essentially a mini web browser that you can drop on any FileMaker layout. There are limitations; for instance, you don’t have the full set of controls that you’d get in a full fledged browser (you have to build forward and back buttons if you want them) but it still allows you to view content from ... Read More