If you read my first blogpost on using WSClient and Rules to push your Drupal data to FileMaker, then you're ready for the rest of the story: How to get your FileMaker data into Drupal . Well, sir or madam, there are two ways: write FileMaker scripts to push data to Drupal, or use Drupal to pull data from FileMaker. We suggest the latter, and here’s why. FILEMAKER SCRIPTING IS A MAJOR PITA Pushing field-level data to Drupal with the OnObjectSave trigger sounds like such a great idea at first blush, but major blockers surface pretty quick. Guess what happens every time you modify any FileMaker field: OnObjectSave calls your custom script to push a REST request to Drupal services, and the FileMaker client interface locks up for the duration of the request! That's about a three second "freeze" every time your client edits a field. “Well, let’s simply log the change for later processing by a server-side FileMaker script.” Great idea. But there still remains t...
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