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The FileMaker Data API uses a relatively simple authentication pattern when using a self hosted server. Post valid credentials to the server, receive a token, use that as a bearer token for subsequent requests. With FileMaker Cloud 2 however, the process is made somewhat more complex through the use of Cognito, the AWS credentials management […]
We do lots of work with FileMaker, particularly with the FileMaker Data API. We also use Ansible for lots of the deployments we do of web applications we build. Recently we needed to put both of these things together because we needed to pull information from FileMaker and make decisions in Ansible about what needed […]
Today a colleague asked me to take a look at an issue they were experiencing interacting with the Zoom API (I’ll write about that another day), but in the conversation they asked if I knew if it were possible to create the JSON Web Token (JWT, pronounced jot) used by the API in native FileMaker. […]
With the changes which Oracle made to Java licensing some time back Claris no-longer include a Java Runtime Engine (JRE) with the FileMaker server installer. With current versions of FileMaker Server this is only needed if you want to enable Web Publishing Engine (WPE). When you go to enable the WPE the admin console provides […]
I work with many different clients, often on their back-end systems where the relevant FileMaker app isn’t directly visible on their server which means I needed an easy way to get to the file I needed without having to remember what it was called! FileMaker apps can be launched through the use of the fmp:// […]