What is Troi Serial Plug-in?
Troi Serial Plug-in gives FileMaker Pro easy and powerful access to external devices with a serial interface Continue Reading
What is Troi URL Plug-in?
Troi URL Plug-in can help you fill in forms on the Internet, all from FileMaker Pro. It also retrieves data or images from web sites.
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What is Troi Dialog Plug-in?
Troi Dialog Plug-in is a very powerful tool for displaying all sorts of dialogs in FileMaker Pro 15. The text of the dialog and of the buttons can be created dynamically by using a calculation.
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Updated file management plug-in for FileMaker Pro 15 adds unzipping and creating aliases.
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The newly released Troi Text Plug-in 4 for #FileMaker Pro 14 adds customizable (or is it customisable?) spelling functions per field. You can implement this from a calculation, for example in a script or in a calculation field. You can also ignore, learn and unlearn words, from a script.
What is Troi Text Plug-in?
Troi Text Plug-in is a powerful tool for for dealing efficiently with text in your FileMaker Pro database. Continue Reading
Updated encryption plug-in for FileMaker Pro 14 fixes a bug in the MakeDigest function.
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Updated file management plug-in for FileMaker Pro 14 improves CreateZIP and several other functions.
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Rob Salusbury wrote to us that he is using our Troi URL plug-in to make FileMaker Pro into an incredibly powerful web client, in particular for communicating with SQL databases.
He thinks we are sitting on a real game changer that potential customers might not be aware of. Combined with Troi File and Troi Encryptor it delivers the ability to create very fast (VERY fast), very secure SQL applications that provide a ton of extended capabilities over any browser-only based solutions.
You can find the quote on our comments page.
The link below points to a page on his site that explains a little more about the concept.
http://customdataservices.net/sqlclients.htm.
We have to admit we don’t completely understand how this works, so you’ll have to quiz him on the details. We are amazed what our users can accomplish with the help of our plug-ins.
Many more functions
This is just one of the functionalities added by the Troi URL Plug-in. Another possibility is for example to send tweets to Twitter.
On the Troi URL Plug-in page you can download a fully functional demo with all the functions explained:
www.troi.com/software/urlplugin.html
It is a great and easy way to enhance your database for you or your customers.
Below we show how to display an input dialog with a popup, which displays the values of a second value list, while returning the chosen value from the first list.
This (simplified) example uses fixed text to build the dialog, normally you would fill the dialog with data from your database. In ScriptMaker you need to add script steps to a script, but you can of course copy the script from the example files in the download of Troi Dialog Plug-in.
Implementing the InputDialog
First set the values for the popup. For this popup we fill the optional last parameter, which holds a second value list (with item names).
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