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Here are links to articles and resources related to today’s FM Training Livestream presentation.

YouTube link

• Best of FileMaker Hacks Tips, Tricks and Traps (part 1)

Demo Files

• 2025-Sept-Livestream.zip

Articles

• FileMaker Pro 22: Initial Impressions
• Birthday Challenges, part 1
• When 2 is greater than 10
• Generating Sample Data

Addendum

During my presentation, when I showed this example…

…I should have added:

Surrounding the “Blue” with a pair of ¶s is good-faith attempt to avoid false positives in case the list contains “Bluegrass”, “Blueberry, “Bluebird”, “Abluent”, etc.

The demo file has been updated to reflect this.

Here are links to articles, custom functions, etc., related to my Wednesday, January 15th FM Training Livestream presentation on JSON custom functions.

YouTube link

• YouTube presentation: JSON Custom Functions

Demo Files

• jan-2025-livestream-files-rev3.zip

JSON and JSON Custom Functions

• Thinking About JSON, part 1 (intro – reading JSON)
• Thinking About JSON, part 2 (intro – writing JSON)
• Thinking About JSON, part 3 (miscellaneous observations)
• Thinking About JSON, part 4 (discussion of dots in key names and bracket notation)
• JSON.GetValueType (auto-determines the type; facilitates dynamic JSON creation)
• JSON Custom Functions, part 1
• JSON Custom Functions, part 2
• JSON Custom Functions, part 3

Other JSON-Related Articles

• Connecting Portals to JSON Arrays
• JSON – Force Standard Notation
• JSON Currency Exchange Rates, v3
• OnWindowTransaction JSON
• Fast Summaries to JSON
• Fast Summaries to JSON, part 2

JSONQuery

• Official site: download JSONQuery from here –
  https://github.com/steve-ssh/FMP_JSONQuery
• JSONQuery v1 Conversation with Steve Senft-Herrera, part 1
• JSONQuery v1 Conversation with Steve Senft-Herrera, part 2
• Jan 2022 FMDiSC YouTube presentation (Steve & Kevin)
• Feb 2022 FMDiSC YouTube presentation (Steve goes under the hood)
• Jul 2024 DIGFM YouTube presentation (Kevin w/ Steve)
• Sep 2024 FMDiSC YouTube presentation (Kevin w/ Steve)
• JSONQuery v2 Conversation with Steve Senft-Herrera, part 1
  (wherein we explore some of the new features in JQ v2)
• JSONQuery v2 Conversation with Steve Senft-Herrera, part 2
  (including a deep dive into the JQ MAP construct)
• JSONQuery Odds and Ends