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Custom(er) App Development

As consumers, our active involvement in product development is basically limited. Some of us might participate in a focus group or share customer feedback to help product managers learn more about product pain points and/or ways to improve…

FileMaker Cool Trick #5: Automatically Perform Script on Server

This series of YouTube videos for FileMaker developers shows off our favorite tips and tricks within FileMaker. Learn from our developers in this mini-series as we point out our favorite little features, shortcuts, and super cool tricks to…

FileMaker Cool Trick #4: Scripting without Context

FileMaker Basics Lesson 35: Self-Closing Custom Dialogs

This is the thirty-fifth video in our FileMaker Basics series, which covers topics for beginning-level developers. This video teaches you how to create custom dialog boxes that notify users when certain scripts are triggered. Custom dialog…

Advanced Development Introduction Part 2

In part two, Jeremiah Small shows how to use the Carafe Bundle Creator to initialize a new Bundle. He also shows how to use the Watch, Watch Send, and Force Watch Send CLI functions. If you haven't already installed Visual Studio Code…

Advanced Development Introduction Part 1

In part one, Jeremiah Small shows some advanced techniques using the command line (Terminal) for working with a Carafe Bundle. If you haven't already installed Visual Studio Code (VSCode) and NPM, watch the video that explains how to set…

Preparing Windows for Local Carafe Development

In this video, Jeremiah Small shows how to prepare your local Carafe dev environment on Windows. Install Visual Studio Code (VSCode) and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Then enable Bash as the default command shell in VS Code. Finally,…

Preparing macOS for Local Carafe Development

Jeremiah Small demonstrates how to set up Visual Studio Code (VS Code) as a Carafe dev environment. Use the terminal in VS Code to install Homebrew package manager, then use it to install NPM (Node Package Manger). Carafe Feature Tour…

Preparing macOS for Local Carafe Development

Preparing MacOS for Local Carafe Development is part of our Carafe feature tour playlist. Jeremiah Small demonstrates how to set up Visual Studio Code (VS Code) as a Carafe dev environment. Use the terminal in VS Code to install Homebrew…