Seattle FMPUG Tenative Meeting Schedule

Hello Seattle Puggers,

Just wanted to drop you a line of pending meetings at the Seattle PUG.

1) Jesse Barnum 360Works 9/24/2007
2) **Special Meeting John Mark Osborne 9/30/2007
3) John Howell and Scott Newton DataExperience 10/22/2007
4) John Sindelar SeedCode 1/28/2008
5) Alexei Folger FileMaker 2/25/2008
6) Jeff Hough SiteCraft 3/24/2008
7) TENTATIVE Jason Mundok ItSolutions Inc 4/28/2008

Thanks!
Dwayne

Art Of SW Blog Post About FMP and Quickbooks

Hello All,

Just wanted to give you a heads up on an interesting blog post from Tim Trimble (Seattle PUG Member) on the FMBooks Connector from Productive Computing.



To check it out, click this link
http://artofsw.blogspot.com/2007/09/filemaker-quickbooks.html

SEATTLE FMPUG MEETING September 24, 2007

September Seattle Chapter FMPug Meeting:
Managing Documents and Images in FileMaker
with SuperContainer

Jesse Barnum from 360Works will be presenting SuperContainer, a better way to manage documents and images. SuperContainer uses the Web Viewer feature in FileMaker Pro 8.5 to upload, download, view, and resize images and documents using FileMaker Pro client software or with your web browser and Instant Web Publishing. It is the perfect solution for storing scanned images, digital photos, PDF documents, and any other document or file without the the problems associated with embedded or referenced container fields: slow speed, large files and cumbersome backups, cross-platform path issues, lack of browser uploads, and share drive IT issues.



Jesse has donated one license of SuperContainer to raffle off for members and we will be raffling off five copies of the FMPug Everything Reference Guide.

Be sure to register in advance so that we can get your name on the list for the front security desk. Visit www.fmpug.com <http://www.fmpug.com/>

360Works Bio:

360Works is a Georgia LLC company (Prometheus Systems Consulting LLC d/b/a 360Works) established in April of 1996. We were originally founded as a Macintosh IT support consulting company, but by 1999 we had shifted our focus to custom database development with FileMaker Pro for desktop applications (http://www.filemaker.com) and Java / WebObjects for web applications ().

360Works is a Platinum member of the FileMaker Business Allance, and currently employs nine people, four of whom are certified FileMaker 7 developers, and three certified FileMaker 8 developers (see http://solutions.filemaker.com/fsa/search_details.jsp?serial=62687 for our certification levels). The company president, Jesse Barnum was selected by FileMaker as a member of the initial beta test group used to establish the testing standards for others. He also leads the Atlanta FileMaker Developer group, which meets monthly.

Meeting Date: Monday 9/24/2007
Meeting Time: 6:30 to 8:30 PM
Meeting Location: 1301 2nd Avenue Seattle, WA 98101
**Make sure to RSVP at www.fmpug.com <http://www.fmpug.com/> to get your name on the list at the security desk.**

P.S. We are looking for food and beverage sponsorships for the September meeting. If your company wants to give back to the Seattle FileMaker community let us know.

Thank You,

Katie Strock

Project Coordinator

SolutionMakers Inc.

(360) 668-4903 ext. 101

Toll Free (800) 237-3975

SEATTLE FMPUG MEETING July 23, 2007

Join us Monday evening, July 23rd, as Rick Colcock, Corporate Systems Engineer for FileMaker Inc will be giving a presentation on the new features in FileMaker 9 such as connecting to external SQL data sources, conditional formatting, auto-resize layout objects and much more!

LOCATION: Washington Mutual Center 1301 2nd Ave Seattle, WA 98101

DATE: Monday, July 23, 2007

TIME: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

SIGN UP: Go to www.fmpug.com, select Attend a Meeting and sign up for the Seattle meeting.

RAFFLE: All FMPug members are eligible to enter the drawing for the evenings give-aways.
For more details check out Rick’s bio below:

Rick Colcock is the Corporate Systems Engineer for FileMaker, Inc. He worked as a FileMaker developer and consultant in the travel industry prior to joining FileMaker in 2000. In addition to assisting corporate customers in configuration advice and advanced technical support, Rick has presented at the FileMaker Macworld Theater and produced and delivered trainings for FileMaker Tech Support and Sales personnel. He's the author of two XSLT examples at filemaker.com: FileMaker Pro to iPod and iTunes to FileMaker Pro.

For more information, please contact Katie Strock at katiestrock@solutionmakers.com or call (360) 668-4903.

SEATTLE FMPUG MEETING June 25, 2007

WorldSync is one of the very few FileMaker consultancies in the world to hold a patent on one of its products or business processes. WorldSync is a leader in the marketplace of database management for today’s growing mobile and geographically distributed workforce. Sales teams, telecommuters, field service staff, multi-national companies and collaborative work groups are just a few of the organizations who use WorldSync’s FileMaker technologies to become more productive anywhere and anytime.

Jason is the founder and CEO of WorldSync, Inc., and has more than 10 years of experience building custom database and productivity applications. He has overseen development of information management systems for more than 50 clients. Jason has given lectures to FileMaker’s inside and outside sales staff to educate them about the complexities of database projects in enterprise environments and has spoken at FileMaker’s annual developer conference.

For more information, please contact Katie Strock at katiestrock@solutionmakers.com or call (360) 668-4903.

SEATTLE FMPUG MEETING May 21, 2007

For more details, check out Vince’s bio and the session summary below:

Vince is best known for revolutionizing FileMaker development with the much-loved and widely-used Inspector, now in version 1.6. Vince has been working with FileMaker for over 15 years. He has presented numerous times at Dev Con and at Macworld. Vince is the President of FM Nexus, which builds and distributes a growing collection of powerful FileMaker Pro developer tools and solutions. He is also a senior developer/ project manager at Beezwax Datatools, Inc. Vince is the author of Inspector, a tool for debugging, documenting and diagnosing FileMaker solutions.

In this presentation, Vince will show current and future users of Inspector tips and tricks to make all your work in FileMaker easier, faster and more fun. He'll demonstrate his new Web Services Plugin (now in Beta), a FileMaker plug-in that allows you to access the wide world of WSDL-enabled web services as seamlessly and easily as you access FileMaker's built-in function library. With the thousands of WSDLs already available on the net, including many from major players like Amazon.com, Google, eBay and others, you can access a diverse range of data sources including real-time stock market data, census information, ZIP codes and phone books, auction information and many other very exciting data sources. Designed with FileMaker developers in mind, the Web Services Plugin brings a wide world of information to your desktop. Basically if you can work with FileMaker calculation functions then you can also interact with web services.

Vince will also present Account Manager 2.0, a complete user and access privilege management solution for streamlining and centralizing authentication management across multiple FileMaker databases. Account Manager is a top-notch solution currently in use by some of FileMaker's largest corporate clients. Learn how it can be helpful for you, too. If time permits Vince will also demonstrate the soon-to-be-released Dragon Web Surveys. Do you have clients who need to build surveys or web forms easily, with no programming whatsoever? Stop rebuilding the wheel. Feedback forms, customer support ticket intake, job applications and many other kinds of through-the-web data collection can be radically streamlined with this new tool.

All of these solutions are designed with the session model approach, a strategy for developing industry-strength FileMaker solutions. Vince will get under the hood on session model implementation and discuss some of its benefits and drawbacks.

SEATTLE FMPUG MEETING April 23, 2007

Dr. Matt Navarre will speak about searching FileMaker data in the age of Google. He will show techniques of using a search bar, such as found in a web browser, to enable flexible search to your solution. This method involves a single global field, and a single script, and can be easily added on to your existing search methods.

Dr. Matt Navarre is the co-founder of Pre1 Software (www.pre1.com.) He part of a regular FileMaker PodCast with Dan Weiss, President of Adatasol (http://podcast.buddysystems.com/FilemakerPodCast.xml.) Dr. Navarre spent eight years as President of MSN Media, a technology developer and consultant in Portland, Oregon specializing in providing solutions for the publishing industry. Clients have included Oregon Catholic Press, Oregon Business Media and Willamette Week. From 1995 to 1998, Matt was Webmaster and Software Developer for OCP Publications. He has a B.A. from Cal State Fullerton.

We hope to see all of you at this meeting. We will be serving refreshments and giving away lots of prizes as usual including a copy of FileMaker Pro 8.5. Visit (www.fmpug.com ) to register for the meeting. For any questions, please feel free to contact Katie Strock at katiestrock@solutionmakers.com.