Add-ons are modular building blocks that can be easily imported into FileMaker and placed on the page using drag-and-drop. Creating add-ons makes sense, as also you can create building blocks for your next projects. Anyone who has previously received the impression at Claris that add-ons always have to do with Javascript and are terribly complicated, fails to recognize the power of the idea. It’s not about Javascript or highly complex solutions, it’s about creating and using building blocks. These can be very simple solutions in FileMaker.

An add-on is created in its own file. Then you export the file as an add-on and the function including tables, layouts, scripts and custom functions can be integrated directly into other files.

Add-on Lab FREE

The free “Add-On Lab FREE” tool is a FileMaker file and does two things:

1. Create an add-on to an open FileMaker file
2. All the information available on how to create add-ons.

The file also locates the correct add-on directory at the touch of a button. So far, Claris hardly released any information about add-ons. Many details are unknown. Valuable information can currently be found on Geistinteractive.com and a few other websites. There the information is explained in various articles. We have summarized the collected information for creating add-ons in this file.

Add-on Lab PRO

There is also an extended professional version (Add-On Lab Pro) that allows you to manage add-ons and modify information. This version comes with an online course, which you can find under “Courses”. Thus, you get both a piece of software and a lot of know-how in a single package.