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How to use RPA to upload 300,000 records to FileMaker Cloud in 35 minutes or less

Safely upload, update or delete data at an average rate of 150/records per second using FileMaker's Perform Script on Server step.

RC2FM 1.1 is here, now with MMS!

Announcing RC2FM Connector version 1.1.0 — the "MMS edition" Nearly a year after its original debut date, Automation USA is proud to...

Announcing RC2FM: Let FileMaker "Ring"!

INTRODUCING RC2FM: The RingCentral to FileMaker Connector Just in time for FileMaker's 2016 Developer's conference, Automation USA is...

Coming around full circle

How to create perfectly circular photo containers in FileMaker For quite some time, most apps (Microsoft's Office suite, Apple's Pages,...

Anchors Away! Letting it all "hang out"

One-to-Many: One application, many platforms Filemaker is an excellent tool for quickly designing great looking custom applications that...

How big is my database, exactly?

Bits and Bytes Been nurturing a FileMaker database for a few years now? Is it fast approaching "big data" proportions? Concerned about...

Modular FileMaker: Universal Search (the SeQueL)

Part 2 ( Search, the "SQL Way" ) Part 1 - Search in FileMaker In Part 1 ( Search, the "FileMaker Way") we discussed a scripting...

Modular FileMaker: Universal Search

Part 1 ( Search, the "FileMaker Way" ) The Problem: Attack of the (search) Clones Ever get tired of writing multiple FileMaker scripts...