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MBS FileMaker Plugin Christian Schmitz

Monkeybread Software MBS FileMaker Plugin 3300 functions 400 new functions in 2014 500 new functions in 2015 already 350 example databases.

MBS FileMaker Plugin One Plugin file Easy to install & update supporting FileMaker 8.5 and newer Mac OS X & Windows FileMaker Pro, Advanced, Server, Web Direct & Runtime

MBS FileMaker Plugin One central MBS function First Parameter = Function Name Check for errors using MBS("IsError") Reference Parameters

New in 2014/2015

TAPI Windows Telephony API Query phone number of current PC Script Trigger for incoming calls Perform calls Disconnect, Transfer, Park, Pickup

PDFKit Print/Fax PDF from container/file Apply Quartz Filter for saving PDF for smaller PDF file size Watermark in background Generate previews with transparency Add empty or image pages

Hotkeys Define Hotkeys Trigger script on keydown Shift, Option, Command, Control + key Mac & Windows

Toolbar Save/Restore Toolbar Configuration 
 per Window Add custom toolbar entries Add background toolbar image Change toolbar options like icon size

Toolbar

Toolbar

SendMail Build and send emails via CURL Multiple attachments from Container/File HTML, Text & RTF To, CC, BCC and Reply-To Plugin encodes special characters with UTF-8 SMTP with/without SSL/TLS

Menu Show Menu popup Mac & Win Show relative to mouse, window or screen Submenus, Checkmarks, Icons Mac only: Fonts & formatted texts

Menu

DynaPDF for FileMaker Continuous development Improved Annotation handling Output Intents Query metadata like XMP Query more details about images New Optimize command

DynaPDF for FileMaker Extract Embedded files Create, modify and read form fields Flatten annotations & forms Load custom fonts from files Find text on page Create/Modify/Read bookmarks

List Dialog Shows a dialog with list. Single & Multiple Selection Custom prompt, title and button labels Text & Tag for each entry Get/Set selection

List Dialog

WebView Print to File (Mac) Zoom Page or Text Set/Get form fields even fields without form

Dialog Modifications Install Set replacements Applied to FileMaker standard dialogs MBS( "DialogModifications.Set"; "Import", "Import of Contacts" )

Dialog Modifications

CoreLocation GeocodeAddressString Address to geo location ReverseGeocodeLocation Geo location to address Asynchronously queries

Regular Expression Finds pattern in text Compile your pattern once and execute it often Get captures and whole matches Apply on lists

RichText (Mac) Read/Write Word, RTF, OpenOffice files Replace Text Convert to PDF

Encryption / Hash Encryption.Cipher AES, Blowfish, RC2, RC4, DES, CAMELLIA Hash.Digest MD4, MD5, SHA variants, MDC2, RIPEMD160 Input/Output: Text, Container, Image, Filepath, PDF, Data, base64 or Hex

Mac Media Library

SQL Connections MySQL options for SSL Encryption Get/Set BLOB field/parameter 
 with PDF Container. SQL Anywhere added. Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix, InterBase, SQLBase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC and SQLite

Mac Integration

List functions Find equals/unequals of two lists Remove duplicates Remove empty items Sort QuickList

Dictionary Assoziative arrays Fill e.g. by SQL for later quick lookup Preserves value type including containers use for parameter passing: Create in one line Move into variables in one line

MarkDown Convert MarkDown to HTML/CSS Text attributes *italic*, **bold**, 
 `monospace`, ~~strikethrough~~. <p>Text attributes <em>italic</em>, <strong>bold</strong>, <code>monospace</ code>, <del>strikethrough</del>.</p> Text attributes italic , bold , monospace , strikethrough.

Process Activity Control App Nap, System and Display Sleep $ref = MBS( "ProcessActivity.beginActivity"; "IdleSystemSleepDisabled UserInitiated"; "Doing Backup in FileMaker" ) MBS( "ProcessActivity.endActivity"; $ref )

Schedules Schedule Start Script, Run SQL and Evaluate at time, timestamp or idle Query and modify schedules MBS( "Schedule.StartScriptAfterDelay"; 10; Get(FileName); "testScript"; $param )

Syntax Coloring

Copy Script Button Set Variable [$i; Value:0] Loop Set Variable [$i; Value:$i + 1] Exit Loop If [$i = 10] End Loop

5.3 release Social functions to use Mac's Twitter and Facebook accounts for posting PHP for 32/64bit UDP Sockets with broadcast DynaPDF with color management renders CMYK Use SQL and get records as text

Ressources Website 
 http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/ Videos 
 http://www.mbsplugins.com Blog 
 http://www.mbsplugins.de Mailing List 
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Demo