What if someone can reach on your FileMaker Server without a username or password? The recent attacks on FileMaker servers have made that question urgent for our community. FM Shield brings FileMaker security assessment into a local console, helping developers and administrators identify exposed interfaces, test credential-free access and inspect the evidence behind each finding.
Edition: November 7, 2026Audience: FileMaker developers, solution architects, technical leads, and AI-assisted development practitionersPrimary source: Claris Community Live, November 5, 2026 — Todd Geist and Rosemary Tietge Before We Begin The introduction of Claris FileMaker’s Agentic Development Kit (ADK) marks a significant step forward for the FileMaker platform. For decades, FileMaker developers have built sophisticated
We are told daily that autonomous AI agents are ready to take over systems engineering. The pitch is seductive: point an agent at a repository, let it handle the dirty plumbing of deployment, and wake up to a clean, running service. Last night, I watched that fantasy collide head-on with reality. It ended at 2:22
Sep 28, 2026 · @Dimitris Kokoutsidis The superpower that almost nobody uses FileMaker 2026 can build a relational schema from plain SQL text. That covers tables, fields, relationships, indexes, auto-enter values, validation and external container storage. You need no plugin, no Manage Database clicks and no clipboard XML. The script step is Execute SQL, and
Independent developers invest in the platform. Access to its future should have a clear path. During the research and development of ai2fm, we found defects in FileMaker that could silently change what a developer had written. Parameters disappeared during copying. Steps pasted across versions with different settings. Different exports of the same script disagreed. We
For years, much of the most valuable FileMaker knowledge has been difficult to discover. Some of it lives inside conference portals. Some appears during live streams and then disappears beneath hundreds of unrelated videos. Some is published without enough context to understand why it matters. Some is technically correct but presented without structure, evidence, or
A few days ago, Alex Karp went on CNBC and said something many serious businesses have already been thinking, even if they do not say it publicly. They are paying for tokens. They are not always seeing enough value. And, more importantly, they are not fully comfortable with what may happen to their data, prompts,
