Do you use Claris Studio? If so, what for?
Some may have tried it, but not many is my guess.
Claris Studio is still in development, and it's been a while since the last time Claris demoed it, It is still missing important parts, like scripting (or another way) to create functions.
It is a very interesting new approach to develop systems, it is done in a Web browser. The database is of NoSQL type - the name I can't recall , but Christian has already added it in his plugin.
When Claris began the development. it was seen as the future, but .... they succeeded in teaching new tricks to the FileMaker engine.
I think it is MongoDB
Yes it is Mongo.
Thanks !
Due to EU data protection laws, I'm still waiting for the moment when Claris Studio is offered on servers in Europe.
I think Claris Studio is and remains more of a way to create charts and dashboards and so on: get numbers out of your FileMaker solution and get an overview of what's happening in your organization.
The other use case is to get data from anonymous users: Forms, surveys, etc.
You can build nice forms and let people use them to collect the data later in FileMaker.
But we await for a possibility to copy the content from one account to another account and reconnect the FileMaker database to it.
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That reminds me of a presentation, maybe for a roadmap, where that question of different account systems for FileMaker and Studio was presented as a big challenge. Can't tell if they found a solution. Studio requires a Claris Account, not FileMaker.
In the current iteration it is like having Air-tables forms hooked up with FMP. The UI for designing tables is web-ish, with drag-n-drop elements. It is still in the very early stages of realisation. It’s fun to experiment with.
I’ve been linking fmp to websites since 1996. If they showed me this anytime before the turn of the century I would have been blown away. At present it doesn’t excite me. I’m hoping that behind the scenes they are cooking up something amazing.
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I have seen one application based on Claris Studio in 2023. That looked very good und useful - BUT there are other application available with the same or similar functionality. Yes, end of the last century or during the first years in 2000, it would have been outstanding.
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