In the Performing Actions workflow, we’ll explore how to create functionality in JavaScript and how to call the function from inside the web viewer or from FileMaker. In Manipulating Data, for example, we’ll look at how to reconfigure an array of data from FileMaker for use in a JavaScript library.

This path explores the JavaScript techniques and concepts that perform these five workflows. The learning path takes us along five well-trod workflows, that which we do already in FileMaker. We can look at the JS language through the ‘in’ relationship and see only the parts of JS that is useful right away. Think of it like a Entity Relationship Diagram: FileMaker on the left, and JavaScript on the right. The language may be big, but the parts of it we need as FileMaker developers are well defined and smaller than the entirety of the language.

In all the work I’ve done over the past five years, I come back to a few JavaScript concepts and techniques over and over again. This learning path is all about getting a FileMaker developer using JavaScript in FileMaker in as little time as possible. What we need is to find that which will help us in our FileMaker work now. We don’t have time to watch many of the hundreds of videos out there on JS or even the entire courses. A JavaScript developer will spend most of her career learning, refining, and understanding JavaScript. There’s concepts, techniques, tricks that a web developer spends years learning. The language, though developed to be a beginner language, has become complex. The most obvious problem with using JavaScript in FileMaker is learning JavaScript.

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