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Setting up your NFC tag

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Setting up your NFC tag

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- [Instructor] So now that we have support for NFC within our FileMaker apps, we need something that has an NFC tag associated with it. So what I've done is I've gone and I've bought some NFC stickers. These are read-write tags that you can buy anywhere. I picked up a whole bunch of 'em on Amazon for like three bucks. And what I need to do is then assign a value, and in my case, a text value to one of these tags so I can use it for a test. So if you look inside my file, you'll notice that on the product detail on the upper right hand corner, we've got this long string of a number. That's the product ID. So what I want to do is set up an NFC tag for each product that I have in my database. That way I can take these stickers and place them on the inventory bin and then when the bin is empty, I can just have somebody tap the sticker with their phone to order a new one. So first, in order to set all these up, what…

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