{"id":18181,"date":"2017-06-15T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18181"},"modified":"2017-06-15T14:40:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T18:40:02","slug":"filemaker-16s-invisible-brilliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/15\/filemaker-16s-invisible-brilliance\/","title":{"rendered":"FileMaker 16&rsquo;s Invisible Brilliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17284\">William Porter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17284\">\n<p>FileMaker&rsquo;s WebDirect technology has been around for several years now. It was good but not great when it first appeared, but now it&rsquo;s approaching what I might call &ldquo;usability parity&rdquo; with FileMaker Pro. WebDirect is a technology that translates a normal FileMaker database file into an HTML5 Web page that users can view and interact with in a Web browser.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In the past, FileMaker has relied on older data-exchange technologies like ODBC\/JDBC to share data with non-FileMaker databases. In recent years, the reach of FileMaker has been extended through expensive plug-ins. FileMaker now has explicit, native support for a variety of technologies used widely on today&rsquo;s Internet to exchange and manipulate data, technologies such as cURL, JSON, and RESTful APIs, including the new FileMaker Data API.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>With FileMaker 16, costs will vary roughly between $5 and $15 per user per month. [&#8230;] Moreover, pricing depends on your deployment scenario: Does your company want to keep up with upgrades as they happen, which is what I recommend, or buy fixed-price perpetual licenses and use them forever?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Porter: FileMaker&rsquo;s WebDirect technology has been around for several years now. It was good but not great when it first appeared, but now it&rsquo;s approaching what I might call &ldquo;usability parity&rdquo; with FileMaker Pro. WebDirect is a technology that translates a normal FileMaker database file into an HTML5 Web page that users can view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1421,143,521,30,32,50],"class_list":["post-18181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-subscriptions","tag-database","tag-filemaker","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-webapi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18182,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18181\/revisions\/18182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}