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MBS Plugin for FileMaker and Xojo
MBS Plugin for #FileMaker news

You like to know what is new in MBS Plugin?

Please join our presentation at 11:15 o'clock in room Sancy on the 2nd floor.

Including a new feature developed at the conference.

engageu.eu/agenda/
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
MBS Booth ready for EngageU 2025

Please visit us at the booth to say Hello, ask a few questions and learn what is new for MBS Plugin for #FileMaker.

Join our presentation on November 11 at 11:15 o'clock.

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Booth setup done for the EngageU #FileMaker conference.

Please come by in the next days.
November 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
MBS #FileMaker Plugin, version 15.5pr6

Added newer error codes for FileMaker 2025 to the FM.ErrorMessage function.
Added SyntaxColoring.SetDataViewerFormatButtonEnabled . Pass 2 to do formatting automatically.
Added Container.GetMimeType function.

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 AM
MBS #Xojo Plugins, version 25.5pr6

Updated WiringPi to version 3.1.6.
Added more methods and constants for WiringPiMBS module.
Added AddItem() method variant to QLPreviewControllerMBS class, which takes an title text.

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Japanese FileMaker conference

Back from Tokyo from the #FileMaker conference there.
Lots of developers, speakers and exhibitors.

What a different experience and what a great conference!

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
If you do a presentation about #FileMaker, the MBS Plugin helps you on macOS:

You get nice colors and you can zoom into scripts!

⌘ + to zoom in.
⌘ - to zoom out
⌘ = to zoom 100%

www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/Sy...
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Greetings from the Claris #FileMaker conference 2025 in Tokyo

What an amazing community of developers in Japan. So many young people are coming here!
26 sponsors, over 100 speakers for 70 sessions in six tracks.

www.claris.com/ja/conferenc...
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
See you at the Claris #FileMaker Conference 2025 in Tokyo this week!
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
#Xojo xDev Magazine 23.6

* From Idea to Prototype
* A Raspberry Pi Save File Dialog
* Converting Fitbit Data
* Android's New Developer Verification
* An interview with Christian Schmitz
* Use unit testing
* making your apps talk
* charting weights

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A format button for the data viewer

In MBS #FileMaker Plugin 15.3 we have a Format button on macOS for the data viewer's detail view.

If the data is XML or JSON, we can use the format and colorize functions.

For v15.5 you can turn on automatic mode.

mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Retract text from a PDF with DynaPDF

If you like to remove sensitive text from a PDF file in #FileMaker, you can use the DynaPDF functions. We have parser functions to find text on a page, delete the text and we can draw a black bar on top of the word.

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Installing and Loading Tesseract OCR with MBS Plugin

Everything you need to find Tesseract libraries for macOS, Windows and Linux and instructions to load and initialize them with the MBS plugin for #FileMaker (OCR.Load, OCR.IsLoaded, OCR.Initialize).

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
MBS #Xojo Developer Conference Update

Six months until our MBS Xojo conference in Andernach starts. Since the last update we go the first speakers to confirm they are coming and listed the sessions.

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
How to Register the MBS Plugin for FileMaker

Four ways:

1) Preferences dialog — manual entry
2) Preferences dialog — paste full license string
3) Register in a Script using StoreRegistration
4) Temporary session registration with Register

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
How to Register the MBS Plugin for FileMaker
www.mbsplugins.de
October 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
MBS #Xojo Plugins, version 25.5pr5

Added ShowManageSubscriptions methods to StoreKit2MBS class.
Added DynaPDFParserContentMBS class.
Added JSContextGroupMBS class.
Added more properties to X509MBS class for debugging.

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
October 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
MBS #FileMaker Plugin, version 15.5pr5

Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.102.299.
Changed FileMaker preferences dialog to include license information
In our preferences dialog you can now paste the whole license string and we separate it to the five fields.

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
October 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Auto-Complete Feature for Custom Functions in FileMaker

In MBS Plugin we have auto-complete for the custom function dialog in #FileMaker to help with

* parameter names
* FileMaker function names
* Get functions
* (global) Variable names
* Operator names

mbsplugins.de/archive/2024...
October 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Using the RFID reader from Phidgets in #FileMaker

If you need to read and write RFID cards in your FileMaker solution, you can use the Phidgets functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin and a PhidgetRFID device.

mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
October 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Checking out JSON.Search function in MBS FileMaker Plugin

JMESPath is a query language and a specification for searching and extracting data from JSON documents and you can use it with MBS Plugin in #FileMaker.

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2023...
October 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
MBS #FileMaker Plugin, version 15.5pr4

Removed tesseract 3 support. Please use version tesseract 5.x.
Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.102.298.
Added UUID.TimeFromUUIDv7 function.
Updated libarchive to version 3.8.2.

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
October 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Enhance your XML powers in #FileMaker with our Saxon functions in MBS Plugin

* XSLT 3.0 for transformations
* XQuery 3.1 for queries
* XSD 1.1 for document validation
* XPath 3.1 for navigation within documents

www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/sa...
October 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
MBS #FileMaker Plugin, version 15.5pr3

Updated Saxon library to 12.9.
Updated jsoncons library to version 1.4.3.
Added Text.ZLibCompress and Text.ZLibDecompress functions.
Added Text.HTMLtoStyledText
Added MarkDown.HTMLDocument and MarkDown.StyledText

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
October 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
MBS @ FMTraining.TV - #FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in Q&A

First Rick Kalman talks about the new standby server feature in testing. Then in our Q&A we talk about various topics including DynaPDF.WebLink, Events and WebView functions.

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
October 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Use Foundation Models in #Xojo

Did you know that macOS 26 (and iOS 26) come with a small local LLM from Apple?

With the FoundationModels classes in MBS Xojo Plugins, you can load a model and send in requests

www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2025...
October 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM