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Depending on who developed it for you, the skill level of the developer, and what kind of standards or best practices they used to develop the solution. You need to design them yourself for your situation.Įvery FileMaker database is different. Excel doesn’t come with the actual spreadsheets that will really make it truly useful and take full advantage of its capabilities. It’s kind of like purchasing a spreadsheet tool like Excel. There are some built-in template files that are included but they are quite basic and may require work to make them work specific for your work situation. With FileMaker Pro 13.When you purchase FileMaker you get a blank slate construction tool for rapidly building powerful custom application solutions. When working with web services – particular SOAP/XML based web services – you will often be required to set specific headers before sending the HTTP POST data. One of the main limitations when performing an HTTP POST is that we are unable to set the HTTP Headers. Which we could easily parse using FileMaker functions to get the actual Celsius value into a FileMaker field (see Demo File link at the bottom). The URL for the HTTP POST then becomes everything up to the first “?” character:Īnd the POST data is everything after the first “?” character: Httppost://FileMaker Pro recognises that you wish to perform an HTTP POST by the use of “httpost” at the beginning of the URL. For example to query a web service that converts Fahrenheit to Celsius you would use the following URL: Everything before the first “?” character is the request URL and everything after the first “?” character is the post data. You then include a “?” character in the URL to separate the request URL from the POST data. To perform an HTTP POST request you need to specify a URL starting with either: Both HTTP GET and HTTP/S POST are supported – GET and POST are generally the 2 most popular HTTP Request Methods when working with web services.įileMaker Pro v12 already supported HTTP GET so nothing has changed here – you only need to specify the URL to perform an HTTP GET request. In FileMaker Pro v13 you can now perform an HTTP POST when importing XML data or using the “Insert from URL” script step.