The identity card in your FileMaker file, without typing

FileMaker Go cannot read an eID by itself. eID 2 FMP can, and hands the name, address, date of birth and portrait to your file in one movement.

Download on the App Store Coming soon to the App Store Read the manual Order a card reader

Requires a Bluetooth card reader and FileMaker Go on the same device.

How it works

1

Read the card

Put the identity card in the Bluetooth reader and press Kaart lezen. Name, address, date of birth, card number and the portrait appear on screen.
2

Sent on by itself

With a FileMaker file configured, FileMaker Go opens straight away with a filled-in record. No intermediate step, no extra tap.
3

Or the other way

A button in your own file calls eID 2 FMP, has a card read, and gets the answer back at the right record.

Why this exists

FileMaker Go loads no plug-ins. The route that is obvious on a desktop does not exist on iOS.
The Configure NFC Reading script step only knows NDEF tags. A smart card needs APDU traffic, and iOS does not open that up to Go.
What remains is a separate app that does the reading and passes the data on. That is eID 2 FMP.

What is in it

Fourteen fields

Surname, given names, date and place of birth, sex, nationality, card number, expiry date, full address and the portrait.

Portrait as base64

The photo travels in the same transfer and lands in your container field through Base64Decode.

Both directions

eID 2 FMP can send to FileMaker, and FileMaker can ask eID 2 FMP for a card — with a key, so the answer lands at the right record.

A self-test

Nine checks that say where it goes wrong, plus a trial with a made-up card so you can test the chain without a reader.

APDU traffic in view

Every command to the card and every answer back, status word included. Hence the name.

No national register number

That number is separately regulated in Belgium. eID 2 FMP skips it while reading — there is no setting to send it anyway.

Who it is for

FileMaker developers building a counter application where people identify themselves: a rental business, a sports club, a reception desk, a building site.
Businesses that today retype names from an identity card, with the typos that come with it.

What you need

iPhone or iPad with iOS or iPadOS 26.5 or later
A Bluetooth card reader — Zetes Sipiro M BT 4.0 or FEITIAN bR301BLE
FileMaker Go 19 or later, with fmurlscript enabled in your file

The app is free to install and the first ten readings are free, so you can try at leisure whether it fits your file. Only the card reader is bought separately — indicative price € 85 excl. VAT at a web shop.

How you call it

One script step in your own file, and eID 2 FMP does the rest.

Set Variable [ $terug ; Value:
    "fmp://$/" & Get ( FileName ) & "?script=eIDOntvangen" ]

Open URL [ With dialog: Off ;
    "eid2fmp://lees" &
    "?terug="   & GetAsURLEncoded ( $terug ) &
    "&sleutel=" & GetAsURLEncoded ( Persoon::ID ) ]

Read the manual

eID 2 FMP stores nothing and sends nothing to us. No server of ours is involved: the data read goes from the device straight to your own FileMaker file, and disappears from the app as soon as you clear it or close the app.

Questions?

Do write. We answer on working days, usually within two days.

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