FileMaker solutions often employ what’s know as robots–computers that run FileMaker scripts so that users do not need to execute scripts manually. The release of FileMaker Server 9 debuted server-side scripts, which can reduce the need for robots and take advantage of Server schedules. In this post I’m going to take a brief look at [...]

A few months ago I wrote a piece on image manipulation in FileMaker container fields on Mac OS X. That type of manipulation was relatively simple – rotating an image – but required AppleScript and ImageEvents. What if you required a more complex adjustment of images, such as converting from TIFF to JPEG, or compression, [...]