FileMaker Experiments: New GitHub Repo and Video Series

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I’ve been sharing some of my recent experiments here and on Reddit lately as I try to implement different APIs and JavaScript libraries in FileMaker. At first I was making a new GitHub repo to share each file separately, but that’s creating more work to share each one.

So I decided to make a single repo to share all of my FileMaker-Experiments and just keep adding to it. Feel free to use these however you like, no attribution required. I chose The Unlicense License, so there are no restrictions on business use.

I’m also starting a video series about low-code, JavaScript, APIs and databases, which will contain a lot of content on FileMaker. Every few weeks I’ll be adding a new app to the repo and/or video to the channel.

Here’s the first video:
Mailing Address Validation & Auto-Complete in FileMaker Pro Using the Radar.com API :round_pushpin:

I love pushing the limits of low-code, and I’m always up for a new challenge. If you need help with a difficult API integration or web viewer solution, please leave a comment below or on the video and I’ll see what I can do!

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Thank you for the various sample apps. My company is in the process of moving all images out of our FM dB and storing them on a S3 compatible service. We have handled most things so far without too much trouble.

When it comes to viewing the images on S3, we are just now looking into that, and we are using a simple webviewer and pushing in the URL to the image. This needs to work in a desktop client, in WebDirect, and on FM Go. I have been asked to see if there is any sample code in the public domain that would give the end user some features in the web viewer to do things like show the image within the size of the webviewer (like FileMaker's option to reduce or enlarge to fit for a container), zoom in and out, and export the image. We also store documents on S3 and we would like to be able to show some controls when viewing a PDF. Things like move between pages, zoom in and out, download, print, etc. Also the same for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents.

I haven't searched too much yet, but was wondering if you have any thoughts on this concept or if you knew of something already built.

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Here's a custom function for creating pre-signed URLs for S3 objects:

And here's a library that might work for the doc viewer, but I haven't tried it.

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