

While version control is not particularly great for managing FileMaker files, it is indispensable for managing text-based code. This allows a developer to build new features, or simply experiment, without fear of breaking existing functionality. Version control: Git and github especially are essential tools for managing text-based code, such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.Design flexibility: JavaScript and web tools allow you to build a design that can easily adapt to varying numbers of child record/portal rows.While we have Virtual List techniques to help address these challenges, you may want to reach into the web development toolkit, and pull out a JavaScript-driven technique. Examples include printing rows of data from multiple related tables on a single report, or cross-tab reports.

There comes a time when you’re asked for a report that’s difficult or impossible to create in native FileMaker.
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Using a combination of AngularJS, HTML5, CSS, WKHTMLTOPDF, PDFtk, bBox and FileMaker scripting, we can create PDF reports from a FileMaker solution, taking advantage of the design and development flexibility afforded by using JavaScript and web tools to accomplish the task.

Introduction – Extending FileMaker with JavaScript
