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JSON, Level: Intermediate

A JSON Miscellany

Kevin Frank

Today we’re going to look at a bug fix in FM 19, and a free web service that returns useful information in JSON format.

Fixed in 19: JSON validation bug

In FM 18 (but not in 16 or 17) JSONFormatElements and other JSON functions can mask mangled JSON errors, making them harder to detect and correct. I wrote about this in detail last year, but, briefly, a JSON bug that was introduced in FM 18 has been corrected in FM 19.

Steps to replicate:

Create some JSON, and then transform it, but intentionally botch the transformation, for example, attempt to update an array using object notation:

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Level: Intermediate, Version: FM 16 or later

Faux Subsummaries with Variable Height Rows

Kevin Frank

Recently we’ve looked at two methods to generate a “faux” subsummary to address a shortcoming of FileMaker native subsummaries… namely that in a multipage report you can have orphaned entries at the top of a given page with no indication of what parent entity they belong to.

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The methods were documented here:

One limitation of both the above approaches is that they only worked with fixed-height report rows. Well today we have a nice, outside the box solution from Daniel Wood that does not suffer from this limitation.

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