Setting Up FileMaker with a Weather API
As you may know from experience, the weather has a tremendous impact on your ability to do business. With a weather API in FileMaker, you can quickly adjust your plans … Read More
FileMaker Training
Learn practical FileMaker development skills. We offer FileMaker training and certification designed to help you build, customize, and support real-world solutions. These articles cover FileMaker development techniques, integrations, automation, AI features, and best practices, with many posts including free lessons, demo files, and course previews. Whether you are new to FileMaker or expanding advanced skills, you’ll find training resources you can apply immediately.
To see our complete list of online FileMaker training courses, visit Productive Computing University, or explore our FileMaker Training and Certification Programs.
Mastering Claris FileMaker Server – Learn best practices for hosting your own FileMaker files
Did you see our course, Mastering Claris FileMaker Server? Productive Computing University revamped its Claris FileMaker SSL course to address much more than installing SSL certificates in FileMaker Server. Installing … Read More
“What Is My Latency?” Try This Free FileMaker Add-on
Measured in milliseconds, latency is an important factor for understanding slowdowns in either your infrastructure or your customers’ systems. Latency happens when there’s a delay between a sender and receiver. … Read More
Preparing For The FileMaker Certification Exam: Better Ways To Study
Certifications are the standard in the world of IT and technology. Like many other platforms, FileMaker also offers a certification for developers to test their mettle. There are plenty of … Read More
Network Monitor Tool – Analyze Traffic In and Out of FileMaker
What is the Network Monitor tool? We have written and talked about several FileMaker developer tools in our blogs and on our YouTube channel. Here is another useful tool to … Read More
Network Link Conditioner: Tips for Testing with a Lousy Network
What is the Network Link Conditioner? The Network Link Conditioner is a network utility tool available via the Apple Developer program that allows you to spoof various network conditions for your FileMaker apps. Why is this … Read More
Exploring the Basics of API Integration with FileMaker
Watch this video to learn API training options we offer. Learn how to connect FileMaker with an API in our API Fundamentals course. What is an API? To spell it … Read More
Must-Have FileMaker Custom Functions
Over the course of its development, a FileMaker custom solution takes on many shapes. Its schema grows, shrinks, twists and bends to fit the needs of its design. Keeping the … Read More
Finding Options – Ways to Search in FileMaker
Do you need to find something in your FileMaker solution? Are you searching for data and wondering the best way to track it down? Performing a search in FileMaker is … Read More
FileMaker Integration with Claris Connect
This new offering from Claris International is all about integration. That is the key word to think about when we talk about Claris Connect. For many years, many people with … Read More
Okta and FileMaker – Advanced External Authentication
One of our enterprise hosting customers asked us if it would be possible to integrate FileMaker Server with Okta, their authentication provider. At first, we were not sure. But, after … Read More
FileMaker Charts – Going Beyond the Data
FileMaker charting has been around for nearly a decade – since version 11! The capabilities of the FileMaker charts and graphs, along with the Chart Inspector continue to grow as … Read More