Spotlight and FileMaker anyone?

on Jun 22 in Design, FileMaker, General

I’ve figured a way of fudging a FileMaker database to be searched a la Spotlight. I’m willing to openly discuss it, but it requires an extensive writeup and I’d like to gauge the interest before I do. If you’re interested, drop me an email or leave a comment.

UPDATE
For those looking for the technique, you can see it here:

http://www.secretweaponlabs.com/words/2005/09/24/spotlight-and-filemaker-redux-building-a-filemaker-search-engine/

Comments

  1. James Chiswell Jones

    Jun 27th, 2005

    Yes, please tell me how to integrate Filemaker & spotlight!

    Thanks,

    James

  2. Denis

    Jun 28th, 2005

    OK, at least SOMEONE is interested. Give me a couple of days here to write it up.

  3. fjolset

    Jul 11th, 2005

    need it badly

  4. rich

    Jul 18th, 2005

    yes, i am definitely interested in your idea. i would be grateful for any details you could give me!

  5. Denis

    Jul 18th, 2005

    Rich,

    Thanks for your comment. I’m working on drafting this up for the site. Hopefully I’ll have it done soon.

  6. Patrick

    Jul 20th, 2005

    This would definitely make my life easier :) Any information would be helpful.

  7. Jeff

    Jul 20th, 2005

    Oh, this would be a godsend! I most definitely need this.

  8. Big mac user

    Jul 22nd, 2005

    Yes we need to make all filemaker files and databases spotlight searchable….

    we process terabytes of Filemaker database’s…

    look forward to your results….

  9. Ernst

    Jul 23rd, 2005

    That would be real nice and nifty.

  10. Patrick Greer

    Jul 24th, 2005

    Yes, I would be very interested in this. Please keep me informed.

  11. Maarten

    Jul 29th, 2005

    Yes, I also would like the description of plugging filemaker to spotlight, because we can get a lot of profit from such plugin…
    Please send me the results as well…

  12. John O'Mallley

    Aug 21st, 2005

    I need this! Count me in!

  13. Tony Williams

    Aug 23rd, 2005

    Oh, yeah, baby. I’m going to have a bunch of users who would fall at my feet and worship me if I got this working.

    # Tony

  14. Geoff W

    Sep 2nd, 2005

    Yes I am intereseted

  15. Kim

    Sep 2nd, 2005

    Very handy. Good luck.

  16. Kim

    Sep 2nd, 2005

    Sounds very useful. Look forward to more information.

  17. James

    Sep 8th, 2005

    Hi. I too would be very interested. Hope to hear from you soon.
    J

  18. Didi

    Jun 5th, 2006

    Coulden’t think of something more helpful, as acadenmic who stores quotes in Filmemaker it would really help me to find my quotes quickly again!

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