Category Archives: Connectivity

Google-like Search Through Relationship Filtering

This article describes a script-less technique for using dynamic relationships and portals to search values in a related table using a single global field. It is a part of a series on Advanced Search Interfaces. This technique produces an interface similar to the Google-like Search described in previous articles in this series, but instead of […]

Connecting FileMaker Pro with MySQL in Mac OS X

Previous Versions of FileMaker Pro and ODBC Filemaker Pro has had the ability to connect to and use ODBC as early as version 7. Using the Execute SQL script step, you could specify a ODBC DSN (Database Source Name) and execute any SQL statement that you can build with a FileMaker Pro calculation which could […]