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Private, Searchable Chat for FileMaker Networks

Built in FileMaker Pro

FMChat lets you collaborate with your other FileMaker users right in FileMaker Pro, sending attachments, images, and links to the records you’re talking about.

Unlocked and Scriptable

You can even run scripts in your solution from within chats--approving orders, accepting invitations, or closing trouble tickets, for example. FMChat is completely unlocked and scriptable so you can change both the way it works and the way it looks.

See FMChat in Action

Here is a quick video showing the notifications and clickable links in FMChat. Remember, this is all native FileMaker Pro, no plugins required...

Notifications Messages and Alerts.
	By default, FMChat comes to the front when you’re in FileMaker to let you know if you have new chats or responses. Each User can control how they’re notified, electing to receive email or SMS notifications when FMChat sees they’re not in FileMaker.
		Notification preferences
Messaging for FileMaker Server Notifications can also come from events in your FileMaker solution: script triggers or server-side scripts can send chats to alert users of important events in the system--like a project’s status changing. For some developers, such scripted notifications may be the most exciting part of deploying FMChat.

Searchable and Secure

Your chats are now a database

Because FMChat is completely built in FileMaker Pro, you can search it like you’d search any other FileMaker table. Search for phrases, dates, attachments, etc.

And you can secure it the same way: FMChat respects FileMaker’s access privileges, so you can easily control the privacy of your chats.

FMChat also lets you enjoy the collaboration and productivity of chat without your users hanging out in public chat networks which may be insecure of distracting.

Links and Attachments

Store attachments in FM12 containers

Easily share links, files, or images with FMChat, even send links to individual records or found sets in your FileMaker solution. All attachments are stored in FileMaker containers so you can find them even if you don’t remember the conversation they were associated with. Chat is no longer a black hole: it’s a database.

Links can run scripts in your own solutions

You can even teach FMChat to recognize short keywords and run scripts in your solution. For example you can configure Chat so that it turns anything following "Order#" into a link jumping to that order in your solution. You can configure these "data detectors" without getting into scripts: they’re done right in FMChat’s preferences, though you can get in and tweak the scripts if you want to.

Watch and example of using FM Chat to accept meeting invitations.

Download Demo & Purchase...

Pick a Demo, Site License, or Vertical Market License.

FMChat - Demo

Fully functional but time-limited demo of FMChat. (The demo runs for 10 days and you won’t be able to edit scripts or layouts as you can in the purchased version.)
Price: $0.00

FMChat - Site License

An unlocked copy of FMChat for use at a single site. There are no per-seat charges or annual renewal.
Price: $329

FMChat - Vertical Market License

An unlocked copy of FMChat to bundle with an application you’re reselling. There are no per-seat charges or annual renewal.
Price: $849

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Requirements

Chat participants must be on your FileMaker network (they must be able to "see" your FM Server or Host) and must be using FileMaker 12 or the latest version of FileMaker Go.

FMChat requires no plugins and does not require FileMaker Server. It works in Pro and Go but does not work in instant web publishing. Some features, like clickable links in the chat, do not work when the file is open single user: it must be opened from a host or server.

Going Further

FMChat is Fast! Checkout this quick demonstration of responsiveness over wifi on an iPad.

Short FMChat review at Cult of Mac.

You don’t need to modify FM Chat to get started with it; simply host FMChat on your FileMaker Server or Host and let your uses sign in and create their profiles.

Watch a tutorial on scriptable links (data detectors) in FMChat.

Integration Video: linking Chats to specific FileMaker records (so you can see a portal of relevant chats on the record’s layout).

Preview the online documentation for FMChat

Customizations: FMChat is unlocked for you to modify and extend, but if you need help with that, or would prefer us to do it for you, please get in touch.