FMPUG May 2025

AI and FileMaker 2024 – Implementing Semantic Search in Your System Today

May 2025 Meeting

AI and FileMaker 2024
– Implementing Semantic Search in Your System Today

Date:
May 2nd, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Presenters:
Paul Mitchell,
Low Code Engineer – Harmonic

Matt Monroe,
Owner – Harmonic

Sponsored by:
Harmonic

Venue:
Tollway Plaza Conference Center

15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 200, Dallas, Texas 75248

Click here to RSVP
Sign up deadline: April 30th 2025

Venue:
Tollway Plaza Conference Center
South Tower
15950 Dallas Parkway
Dallas, Texas 75248

Low Code Engineer Paul Mitchell and Harmonic Owner Matt Monroe will lead a practical workshop that will get you up and running with Semantic Search in FileMaker. They’ll cover how to employ cloud-based and local LLMs. By the end, you’ll have the skills you need to incorporate Semantic Search into your FileMaker solutions.
Bring your laptop, with Claris FileMaker version 21.1 or later installed.

Schedule

10:30 am:  Join the Teams meeting early if you need help with downloading or configuring the files to be ready for the presentation..
11:00 am:  John Howell of Data Experience will tell us about the upcoming Full Access retreat in October.
11:15 am:  Announcements and Sponsor’s welcome
11:30 am:  AI and FileMaker 2024 Implementing Semantic Search in Your System Today
12:30 pm:  Lunch, courtesy of Harmonic

Join us in person at the Tollway Plaza Conference Center in Dallas,
or via TEAMS or Live stream on Youtube

Before the meeting:

Watch this short tutorial video on how to set up your computer or follow the instructions below before the meeting on Friday

How to set up your computer for this workshop

  1. Create a Cohere Account & Generate API Key
      • Sign up at cohere.com
      • Go to
        your dashboard
      • In the left menu,
        click API Keys
      • Click New Trial Key or Create Trial Key
      • Name your key (record the name)
      • Click Generate Trial Key, then copy and save the key securely.
  2. Download and set up LMStudio
      • You’ll need:
        • At least 6GB of free disk space and 5GB of RAM
      • Download:
        • LM Studio from lmstudio.ai (Mac version is for Apple Silicon only)
        • deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-7b model (for LLM)
        • text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5 (for
          text embeddings)
  3. Download the Training FM file here