BaseElements for FileMaker Pro 20

The world of FileMaker Pro keeps ticking along with FileMaker Pro 2023 released last week. And so along comes a new version of BaseElements. We’re now at version 20 of BaseElements and you can download it today. Other than version compatibility, the big new...

BaseElements Plugin for M1 and Ubuntu

It’s been a bit slow here on the releases, but things are hectic at Goya with lots of development going on all over the place. With FileMaker 19.3 out, and now with native support for the new Apple M1 processor, plus a new Ubuntu release for FileMaker Server,...

BaseElements at University and b3

First, just quickly, b3 and 19.1.2 There’s a cool new release of FileMaker out this week, version 19.1.2 has some cool new features for new layout components using javascript, and some built in Add Ons that lets FileMaker users do cool things. It has a couple of...

BaseElements for FileMaker 19

As always we are hot on the heels of the FileMaker Pro 19 release to announce a new version of BaseElements, v 19.0b1. FileMaker 19 and the open platform This release is a big one in terms of the changes and direction in the platform, and the deeper integration of...

Using RESTfm to build OAuth callback urls

If you think that RESTfm isn’t needed any more because FileMaker Server now has a JSON Data API, then I’d like to give you an example of where RESTfm shines in a way that the Data API will never allow. And it lets us solve a previously intractable...

BaseElements Plugin to ( not ) drop Linux support

UPDATE : Nov 12, 2019 : Serves me right for trying to plan things. So the new roadmap for FileMaker now suggests that there will be an on-premise version of FMS for linux. So we won’t be removing linux support any more. — Our free BaseElements plugin is...

BaseElements and Runtimes

Every version of BaseElements since the very first release have included an option to download a “runtime” version of the solution. This means you can download a full application for Mac or Windows which will run separately from your FileMaker Pro...

RESTfm adds Data API Support

We’ve been in the REST API business since 2013 when we released the first version of RESTfm, and since then we’ve spent a lot of time talking about FileMaker and REST. So we were very excited when FileMaker themselves started talking REST with their Data...

BaseElements 18 and the new XML

One of the big new features in FileMaker Pro 18 is something that not everyone will know what to do with at first. FileMaker describes it as : Use a preview release script step to save a copy of a FileMaker file as XML. Use the XML file to more easily compare changes...

BaseElements Next coming soon.

As always, we’re working on new versions of BaseElements and deciding on which new features to add. We’re going to have a bunch of small additions to show off in BaseElements Next, but we have a couple of cool larger features I wanted to highlight. A...