Using Node-RED & the FileMaker Data API
While it's been around for a few years now, there aren't too many developers in the world of FileMaker who have explored Node-RED. Created by IBM and made open source in 2016, this visual programming tool may start to make waves in the FileMaker world.
A wonderfully generous developer named Lui de la Parra has made it possible to use Node-RED with FileMaker's own Data API. This means that anything in the world of Node-RED is now accessible to FileMaker. This is an amazingly powerful technology for connecting all kinds of things, both physical and virtual, into the FileMaker ecosystem.
In this video, I walk through my own personal use of Node-RED and showcase how I use it in order to capture XML data from an online store and process that data directly into FileMaker.
Whether you need to collect moisture data from physical hardware in a vineyard to interacting with any online web service or API, Node-RED, in conjunction with the Data API, will allow you to realize all kinds of powerful solutions!
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Matt, as ever your skill at bringing new stuff to us is much appreciated. This looks completely brilliant, and achievable too!!!
WOW great tool
Fantastic explanation, as always. Great new tool to help us manage the ever changing digital landscape within FileMaker.
The Alexia interface would be awesome as a demo.
Best to you Matt