Articles, Quick Tips
- Who: Anyone who created a web app and wants to place the web app resources files (.js, .css, assets/, etc.) in the FMS conf folder to host on the FM server.
- What: Workaround for FMS URL Rewrite causing hosted web files like .js and .css to be missing from all other web sites hosted on the server.
- With: FileMaker Server 19.4+
- Why: Recent FileMaker Server versions add an aggressive URL Rewrite to the web server which redirects common web app resource files to the localhost address: 127.0.0.1:16001. This causes all other web apps on the server to redirect these resources as well, making these files unavailable to the other sites fully breaking all other sites using these kinds of files.
Quick Tips
- Who: Anyone who gets an error similar to: “Unexpected token 0 in JSON at position”.
- What: How to fix the error: “Unexpected token 0 in JSON at position”.
- With: FileMaker Server 17+
- Why: Any JSON object that does not properly escape quotations will result in an error.
Articles, Quick Tips
- Who: Anyone who is using the FileMaker Data API and needs to query (find) data within a portal.
- What: How to Query a FileMaker Portal Via the Data API
- With: FileMaker Server 17+
- Why: As of 11/2019, the FileMaker 18 Data API documentation does not show a specific example of how to do a find in a portal.
Articles, Quick Tips
- Who: Anyone who uses checkbox sets with the Data API.
- What: How to Format JSON key/value pairs for a Checkbox Set.
- With: FileMaker 17+
- Why: Checkbox sets are common and useful tools in forms when sending data to the Data API.
Beginner, Quick Tips
- Who: Anyone who uses sorting and wants that sort to stay consistent.
- What: How to maintain sort order (even when sort value in field changes).
- With: FileMaker 12+
- Why: Sometimes you don’t want the record you are on to change it’s order in the found set when you update the record.
Beginner, Quick Tips
- Who: Anyone who uses the “Save as PDF” feature.
- What: How to fix the issue where a PDF created by “Save as PDF” prints slowly.
- With: FileMaker 13+
- Why: No need to wait for these PDFs to flatten.
