Online and offline mobile application sync features. Keep using the FileMaker Pro Advanced database development environment you love, to scale up solutions to your SQL database of choice. Unlimited distribution of networkable cross-platform standalone apps to customers.
Nearly 100% automated FileMaker database compiler to App/EXE/APK, regardless of size or complexity.īuild standalone desktop/mobile apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, IOS, Android. Product Preview Info - This web page has been replaced with the FmPro Migrator Server App Builder page. In addtion, because they are longer, they are also a good match for QR Codes which are designed to handle more data than a standard bar code.įor more discussion about using UUIDs in FileMaker solutions, see FileMaker Standards.
Obviously, UUIDs are longer than most serial numbers (also more likely to be unique, because they are a lengthy and randomly generated) and as a result, less likely to be typed in manually-ideal then for a bar code scanner.
Developers have been generating UUIDs in FileMaker for a while, using Custom Functions, but since FM 12, FileMaker has had the capability of generating UUIDs using the new Get(UUID) function.įileMaker generated UUIDs are 36 character random hexadecimal digits. For example if part of your solution is on the road in the form of a FileMaker Go database and you want these records to sync up with a master database at the end of the day, then UUIDs might be a good option to consider. UUIDs are Univerally Unique Identifiers and can be used in lieu of Serial Numbers in particular when solutions are generating IDs “without significant central coordination”. I have also eliminated the use of a Custom Function to make the script more portable - you should be able to just paste this script into your solution and modify two input fields and one output fields to get it working.Īside from the more common marketing uses for QR Codes, one potential use that I have been exploring is to employ them with UUIDs on identity cards. With FileMaker 12 and 13, this process is much simpler, so I have decided to redo the demo file. In the old demo I used a Custom Function and a free plugin to capture the result in FileMaker. The demo was created back in the dark days of FileMaker 11, before the advent of the Insert from URL function (FM12). A while back I did a blog posting on generating 2D Bar Codes, or QR Codes from Google’s Chart API.
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