FileMaker Pro API Integration
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Course Outline
- Enhancing Insert From URL with cURL options
- Components of an API Call
- API Security Methods
- Understanding JSON
- Using the FileMaker JSON functions
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Overview
Course Outline
Getting started
- Introduction to web services
- The Insert From URL FileMaker script step
- File protocols supported by Insert From URL
- Methods supported: GET (to retrieve data from a specified resource) and POST (to submit data to be processed to a specified resource)
- Parameters explained: Target, Specify URL, Verify SSL Certificates, Specify cURL options
- Testing Insert From URL with a simple example
- Further examples
Enhancing Insert From URL with cURL options
- What is cURL?
- Some common cURL options
- The cURL options supported in FileMaker
- File protocols supported by Insert From URL
Components of an API Call
- The URL
- The endpoint
- The header
- The body
API Security Methods
- Open API
- HTTP basic
- API Keys
- OAuth
Understanding JSON
- Overview of the JSON data types
- JSON Strings
- JSON Numbers
- JSON Objects
- JSON Arrays
- JSON Booleans
Using the FileMaker JSON functions
- Using JSONFormatElements to create a JSON Object from FileMaker field values
- Using JSONListKeys to identify the equivalent of field names in a JSON Array
- Using JSONGetElement to identify the equivalent of a field value in a specific member of an Array (record equivalent)
- Using JSONListValues to identify all the field values in an arrange (record set equivalent)
- Using JSONSetElement to add a key/value pair to a JSON object
- Using JSONDeleteElement to remove a key/value pair from a JSON object
- Combining functions as needed to send data to an API or to create records in a FileMaker table from data retrieved from an API
Worked example of connecting to a fully-functioned API (MailChimp)
- Reviewing the MailChimp API documentation
- Identifying the MailChimp settings needed to make a successful call to the API
- Formatting the JSON data to send
- Interpreting the JSON data returned
- Understanding the syntax of the procedure
- Adding a contact as subscriber to a MailChimp audienc
- Removing a contact as subscriber from a MailChimp audience
- Unsubscribing an existing subscriber
- Re-subscribing an existing contact
- Retrieving a list of all current subscribers
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- Home page for Claris FileMaker — create custom robust operational apps. – Official FileMaker page, showing how to create custom robust operational apps
- FileMaker store – Where to buy FileMaker software
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