baseelements plugin export container field

#Baseelements plugin export container field free#

We spent a fair bit of time looking at how we could have two versions of the plugin, one paid and and one free.

This was something beyond the plugin, but that really only has value alongside the plugin.Īt this point, we had the plugin as a set of functions that were free, open source and contributed from lots of different people, and a second set that we'd spent way more time and money on, and that also requires a FileMaker sync framework to be useful, that in our mind could be a product on it's own. So we also set to work to write a Xero sync framework that can push and pull data from Xero to a set of local FileMaker tables. After a lot of back and forth and development work at our end, we finally got something working, but realised the function itself is just the beginning. It turns out the Xero interaction is OAuth like but not the same as what we'd developed. Xero is becoming one of the big new things for online accounting, we use it ourselves and it's growing worldwide.Īt first it seemed like we would need OAuth in the plugin to make this work, so we started down that path. One of the big new things we added in this release is a simple ( on the outside ) function to authenticate against the Xero API. Lots of new features in this that are very exciting, but there's been a lot going on behind the scenes here as well which hasn't been public and I'd like to go through for all those interested.

#Baseelements plugin export container field free#

You may have noticed a new version of our free FileMaker plugin was released in the last few weeks, bringing the version number to 3.0.