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The FileMaker platform offers some key advantages for small businesses looking to go digital. Many small businesses are turning to FileMaker for building custom apps to replace their manual processes.  We highlight below why FileMaker is increasingly becoming a Preferred Option for small and even medium-sized enterprises

· FileMaker offers a Small Business Service Toolkit to its customers at no extra cost. As a part of the toolkit, FileMaker offers an eBook - “How to Transform Your Service Business”.It addresses the common business issues faced by small businesses and how to overcome them by building custom apps. It also has case studies covering real business issues faced by small companies and how they overcame their challenges

· FileMaker provides a Starter App along with the Toolkit. The app is compatible with FileMaker 15 platform. It has all the basic functionalities to help small businesses in addressing common business processes like resource scheduling, inventory management etc. The app is designed by a member of the FileMaker Business Alliance Platinum Partner. It is accompanied by a webinar which addresses issues faced by small businesses when it comes to inventory planning and management and invoice generation.

· An extended support in the form of ‘Idea to iPad’ Bundle is also available. Annual licenses of FileMaker Pro Advanced and FileMaker Server are offered as a bundle to create and deploy custom apps.  It includes 10 hours of consultation with a Customer Success Manager and FileMaker Business Alliance professional developer. The personal one-on-one interaction helps the developer understand your business and advise a solution appropriate for your situation.

This customer centric approach has proved to help small businesses in digitizing their business using FileMaker. Furthermore, one can start with one module or one process and add modules to meet the growing needs of the business.  Businesses and employees quickly see concrete returns on their investment. The platform also allows you to tweak and fine tune your processes over time. MetaSys Software has over 12 years of experience with a team of Certified FileMaker Developers and huge experience in client server as well as web application development using FileMaker PHP API. If you are looking for a quick solution or have queries related to FileMaker feel free to contact us.

As a FileMaker Business Alliance Member, we are also authorized resellers of FileMaker licenses. If you are looking to buy any of the FileMaker licenses then please click here.

FileMaker is meant for building custom apps that work seamlessly across platforms Windows, Mac OS X, Web or mobile devices like iPad, iPhone. Even with limited amount of programming knowledge, it is now possible to build a custom app using FileMaker. Millions of people are now using apps created by FileMaker for their businesses.

Many developers have basic to intermediary knowledge of FileMaker but there is dearth of avenues to learn and test advanced programming skills. In order to address the needs of aspiring FM developers, MetaSys Software developed an App ‘FM Quizilla 4’ using it, one can practice for FileMaker 14 certification.

There are several features in FM Quizilla 4 app that makes it a complete package. Here are 5 reasons why FM Quizilla 4 is a handy product for people who are looking for FileMaker 14 certification.

1.       The FM Quizilla 4 app is compatible with iOS devices supporting 7 and above. It can be easily downloaded from Apple store.

2.       The app allows you to share scores with other developers through social media & your performance is displayed on the dashboard. It displays total test attempts, last score and other such relevant details.

3.       The questions asked in the app are in the same format as that of the certification test.  They are categorized to cover different modules and topics.

4.       Practicing with this app is snappy. You can check your answer and proceed to the next question or review all your answers whether correct or incorrect towards the end of the test. The app gives you ample ammunition to prepare yourself for the certification.

5.       Once you gain more confidence, you can set a timer and proceed to next modules. Thus you systematically progress towards preparing yourself thoroughly for the certification.

Two decades ago, ‘PHP’ started out as a small open source project and today has evolved into a major scripting language. ‘PHP MySQL’ is now widely used for developing complex web applications. Here are some of the major advantages of using the PHP platform:

·         Easy to develop websites with interactive dynamic content as well as user-friendly.

·         PHP is fairly easy to learn and with PHP Model View Controller (MVC) framework is now available to develop, manage and maintain complex web applications.

·         LAMP, XAMPP are some of the better options to deploy the applications quickly & cost effectively.

·         PHP is compatible with all major web server platforms and web browsers.

·         PHP website development software can be easily embedded into an HTML file.

MetaSys Software has experienced PHP, MySQL developers who can help you with your requirements. Customers expect speed and often bounce rate goes up when websites load slowly. This can be effectively handled by experienced PHP developers at MetaSys. Our developers also use the  CakePHP Framework which speeds up the development process.

At MetaSys we offer PHP based web application development using MySQL and/or FileMaker as backend for multi-tier architectural solution. With FileMaker PHP API it is quick to extend existing FileMaker solution to web. A PHP MySQL being completely open source is a ccost-effectivecombination and allows you to develop a solution customized to your business needs.

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Dropdown list using FM-CWP for large records:

With Custom Web Publishing (CWP) FileMaker allows to build web applications using PHP as Front-End and FileMaker as Back-End. This is achieved using FMPHP API provided by FileMaker.

Almost every web application consists of forms that have a dropdown list/ selection list. For example:

In case of Dynamic dropdown lists, data has to be fetched from backend FileMaker database every time user accesses. If there is large number of records, then fetching them from database and displaying on Web Page takes time to load and results in the slowness of the web page.

In order to avoid this and make the experience friendlier & faster for the user, following technique explains how it can be achieved in a simple way,

Create a text file with all the required data separated by enter key in it.

         ex.          Value1          Value2          Value3..

This data will be the initial data containing in the FileMaker field on which you would like to base dropdown list.

Place this file in the same location as your web page containing the dropdown list.

Then in the PHP web page, using file read operations and while loop, fetch the data and display in the dropdown list.

Create one more PHP web page, which will fire a query on FileMaker table/field to get dynamic data for the dropdown list and write to the text file described above.

Admin person can call this web page via web browser or web viewer of FileMaker whenever there is update to the field data.

This technique is more effective when the data in the required field is modified less frequently.

MetaSys Software develops custom applications using Dot Net, PHP-MySQL, and FileMaker Pro. We have a team of Certified FileMaker developers with over 12 years of experience building FileMaker applications.