What you'll learn:
- Design a multi-user solution
- Identify and create one-to-many, many-to-one, one-to-one and many-to-many relationships
- Create an Entity-Relationship diagram (ERD)
- Design according to the principals of anchor-buoy relational design
- Translate business systems from real-life to electronic using data modeling
- Create portals, filtered portals and filtered relationships
- Learn how to print properly in a multi-table environment
- Work with columns, merge fields, labels and a variety of other print mediums
- Create reports using sub summary parts and summary fields
- Learn how to script complex automations with decision making intelligence
- Create adaptive or dynamic scripts
- Work with modular scripting
- Capture errors and redirect programming with error analysis
- Save and restore found sets for a better user experience
- Compare and contrast different approaches to a problem in order to design better solutions
- Validate and format a phone number for consistent data entry
- Flag overdue or upcoming events
- Understand record locking and script for multi-user solutions
- Learn the differences and best uses for global fields, variables and parameters
Part 2 of this training series continues on withFileMaker Scripting, Calculations, Relationships and Reporting from the guywho actually wrote the book, Scriptology:FileMaker Pro Demystified. With over two decades of experienceteachingFileMaker,John Mark Osborne will help you understand tough FileMaker concepts with ease. Intermediate and advanced FileMaker techniqueswill be taught throughout the three part tutorial series. In order to better understand every nut and bolt that goes into designing a solution,a single file will be createdfrom scratch. The chosen solution is an invoicing solution for its familiarity to a wide audience and flexibility of applying techniques to other solutions.The completed FileMakerfile at each stage is provided to assist with the learning process.
