E004 - Credit Cards, Microsoft Word, and more...

2015-10-27

In this episode of FileMaker Fanatics, John Morina, Marianne Carroll, Scott Rose, Aaron Schacht, and Tony White talk about CardSwipe, credit card technology, using the FMP URL Protocol for inter-application communication on iOS, integrating with Microsoft Word, and the often overlooked "View as Table" feature.


Show Notes and Timestamp Links

0:00:00

Introductions

0:03:11

John Morina talks about CardSwipe http://www.ccqfm.com/cardswipe/index.html and credit card technologies

0:11:54

Using the FMP URL Protocol for inter-application communication on iOS

0:25:28

PCI certification challenges

0:27:51

Scott predicts a strong future for Bitcoin

0:33:40

Published author Marianne Carroll talks about FileMaker, Microsoft Word and how she got started with FileMaker

0:39:33

Options when you need more word processing features...

0:42:02

Sometimes you need inter-application communication

0:49:36

Half of the work of a project is clearly specifying how things work and exactly what needs to be built

0:53:30

Scott plugs the Scribe plug-inhttp://360works.com/filemaker-pdf-plugin/

0:58:18

FileMaker is a much better database that Microsoft Word...or Excel ;-)

1:10:16

Google Docs is a anther option to consider

1:12:17

Exporting from FileMaker to Excel is easy, and often a valid use case

1:13:44

The often overlooked View as Table feature

1:17:30

Is there a FileMaker Fanatics litmus test?

1:19:51

Tony shares a FileMaker Top 10 tip

1:21:48

Closing notes



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