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JSON support - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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JSON support

- [Instructor] To help you understand FileMaker support for JSON, I want to talk first about why this might be relevant. So we're going to start off here by looking at a FileMaker custom app, and this is a FileMaker custom app used by a realtor, and the realtor wants to be able to add listing information. Right now they've only got 16 records in the database, but when they go to add a new listing for the Joneses they can add some of the address info, and you'll notice that even though we've only got now 17 records, somehow when we add the postal code all this information about this address is coming in. This wasn't in the FileMaker database, things like year built, single family, the lot size, and the last sold price, and nor was this web viewer of information that allows users to interact with all the comps of recently sold homes in their neighborhood. All this information came over from Zillow. Zillow is a website and…

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