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Connecting your custom app with an iBeacon

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Connecting your custom app with an iBeacon

- [Instructor] iBeacon support in FileMaker 16 allows you to get location based data integrated into your FileMaker custom apps. So when FileMaker Go is in close proximity to iBeacon devices that you've previously setup, relevant information can be displayed based on data transmitted from the iBeacon. Now the core of all this is a calculation function called RangeBeacons. And before I show you RangeBeacons and how it works, I wanted to give you a demonstration of what it looks like when the custom app is accessing RangeBeacons. So what I've got is a demo file here and to kind of set up the demo a little bit, it is an inventory application and the inventory has products and each product is configured with which warehouse ID it's in, you see that listed here on screen, the isle where it can be found, so these are aisles within the warehouse, and even the shelf within each aisle. So you'll notice that every product has the…

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