
What we want from our virtual assistant is a quick answer to the question asked, and the ability to request and receive a specified report via email, as PDF or Excel document.

How many orders did I receive last week?.How many orders did I receive yesterday?.Give me the status of the order reference 1323.Get the status of the order number 1115.Some questions we might ask our virtual assistant include: And we’d love to ask Siri to send reports that show customer order trends over certain time periods. In this example, we will pretend to be the Sales Manager who wants to use voice commands to ask our virtual assistant (Siri) about the status of customer orders managed in a FileMaker solution. As we continue to automate tasks by mixing together iOS apps, content on mobile devices and web APIs plus FileMaker, let’s add to our workflow using one of the most powerful functions available to iPhone and iPad users: Siri. This story started when we explored iOS Shortcuts to the FileMaker Data API.
