How to investigate access privileges of Plug-ins and FileMaker Pro

Peter Baanen, Mar 21, 2020, Troi Plugins blog Source: https://www.troi.com/additional/how-to-investigate-access-privileges-of-plug-ins-and-filemaker/ With macOS 10.14 Mojave Apple added new (and more strict) security measures, which may cause some functions of the Troi File Plug-in to return an error. Some FileMaker script steps that worked before, will now return error code $$-5000, which is error afpAccessDenied (User does not have

Reinstalling FileMaker Server to troubleshoot an issue

Claris Support Source: https://support.claris.com/s/article/Reinstalling-FileMaker-Server-to-troubleshoot-an-issue-1503693085688?language=en_US FileMaker’s Support Methodology identifies the application as a factor to consider when troubleshooting an issue.  The most certain way to rule out the Server application is to perform a clean uninstall and reinstall of FileMaker Server. Follow the steps below to completely uninstall FileMaker Server while preserving your settings and data. Table of Contents Backup databasesSave schedulesClose

Reading crash reports on MacOS

Interpreting MacOS Crash Reports: Diagnosing Issues in FileMaker Server Source: https://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2019-10-15/Reading_crash_reports_on_MacOS/monkeybreadsoftware_blog_filemaker After the Windows crash report from earlier today where we couldn’t do much, here is an example for one where we could help on MacOS. When you find a crash report in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports folder (for server software) or ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports (for user software), you can

Analyzing crash dump files for Windows

Interpreting Windows Crash Reports: Diagnosing Issues in FileMaker Server Source: https://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2019-10-15/Analyzing_crash_dump_files_for/monkeybreadsoftware_blog_filemaker On Windows if an application like FileMaker Server crashes, you’ll find a dmp file for the crash. For example in C:\WINDOWS\MiniDump folder. Once you got the file, you wonder how to read it. It seems like the best was to use WinDbg application from

Zabbix FileMaker Server Monitoring

Source: https://dbservices.com/blog/zabbix-filemaker-server-monitoring Aaron Kaiser, May 22, 2019, DBServices blog Zabbix, one of the largest free and open source server monitor applications with 300,000 installations worldwide, can be used to collect and display metrics from multiple FileMaker servers at once on one interface; therefore, giving you the ability to save time monitoring servers individually. Viewable from a

Fix error 853 when encrypting FileMaker databases

Troubleshooting FileMaker Database Encryption Issues Source: https://davidhamann.de/2018/08/19/fix-error-853-when-encrypting-filemaker-databases/ Have you ever gotten the following error after trying to encrypt your FileMaker databases? Error 853 refers to One or more containers failed to transfer in the error code listing and herein usually lies the problem. When you encrypt your database, make sure to place the existing external container data into the

FileMaker Pro Audit Trail “Revisited”

Source: https://excelisys.com/fmp-tip-n-trick-filemaker-pro-audit-trail-revisited/ Doug West, Apr 26, 2018, EXcelisys, Inc Nearly four years have passed since our last Easy-Bake FileMaker Pro Audit Trail made its Internet debut. The same principles are still going strong, and now we’ve added some bells and whistles based on user feedback. The steps to implement this revised FileMaker Pro audit trail technique

A Bag of Goodies: ExecuteSQL(), Named Buckets, RelationInfo…

Wim Decorte, Apr 29, 2016, FM DevCon 2014 Source: https://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/executesql-named-buckets/ Back in 2014, I did a DevCon session on “Deep-Dive Scripting, an Audit log…”. The end-result of getting an audit log was not as important as the journey among the new and old scripting and function features. On the various FileMaker forums I see a lot of