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Beginners FileMaker Pro 8.5 Tutorial DVD - Training Video

Learn how to take your skills to the next level. This Beginners FileMaker Pro 8.5 Tutorial DVD is the ultimate in comprehensive learning for the discerning professional.

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Introduction

Welcome Demo

1. Getting Started

2. Database Creation Essentials

Creating databases from templates Demo
Creating databases from scratch Demo
Ramifications of deleting tables Demo
Defining fields and field types Demo
Creating auto entry fields Demo
Auto-entering calculated values Demo
Field Filtering Demo
Looking up values from other fields Demo
Field validation and custom messages
Validation options: Always vs. Only during data entry
Storage options (Global fields)
Indexing options for Fields
Modifying fields
Organizing fields
Creating, editing and locking records
Deleting records and backing up files

3. Working with Layouts

Creating layouts
New layout wizard
Exploring layout tools and status area
Arranging, grouping, and locking layout objects
Layout Setup Dialog
Parts overview
Text formatting
Placing and formatting objects and graphics
Formatting fields and applying field attributes
Field behaviors
Creating and using Tab Control
Using auto-complete
Tab order

4. Finding and Sorting Data

Basic find
New requests in Find mode
Search symbols
Constraining and extending find requests
Finding matching records without Find mode
Find and replace
Sorting with one criteria
Sorting with related fields
Sorting with multiple criteria
Sorting using custom values
Sorting using buttons

5. Value Lists

Creating static value lists
Creating a value list from a field
Using value lists from other files
Displaying second fields only
Field control set up
Additional uses of value lists (sorting, field validations)

6. Printing

Print layouts
Previewing pages and print options
Printing lists
Printing details
Sliding objects
Printing merge letters
Printing labels and envelopes
Subsummary reports

7. Calculation Essentials

Definition of a calculation
Exploring the calculation dialog window
Date and time functions
Text functions
Get functions
Logic functions
Summary fields and functions

8. Script Essentials

Understanding scripts
Understanding script steps
Assigning script steps to buttons
The ScriptMaker dialog window and creating multi-line scripts
Subsummary script
Open script
Adding find criteria to a script
Using script parameters
The Send Mail script step and menu option
The script steps for saving as XLS or PDF

9. Relationships

ER diagrams
Primary and foreign keys
Creating relationships using the FileMaker Relationship Graph
Tables vs. table occurrences
Using related fields
Go to related Records / Go to found set of related records

10. Portals

Creating portals
Creating and deleting records via portals

11. Windows

Creating a new window
Scripting a new window
New window limitations

12. Security

Security overview
Understanding default accounts
Setting up accounts, privilege sets, and external privileges
Managing accounts
File options

13. Building Solutions

Understanding the project

14. Web Viewer Control

Introduction to the FileMaker Web Viewer
Using the Web Viewer
Setting up the Web Viewer using templates
Configuring the Web Viewer setup dialog
Setting up the Web Viewer using custom URLs
The Web Viewer in different modes
Setting Web Viewer script steps

Conclusion

Integrating Flash and Filemaker
Goodbye

FileMaker Pro 8.5 Training Info

Title Information.

FileMaker Pro has been around almost as long as personal computers. Now in its mid-20s, the application offers new and powerful additions to its impressive and mature feature set. This FileMaker Pro 8.5 Training Video on DVD with Cris Ippolite gives comprehensive coverage of the program's primary principles and functions. From understanding the concept of a database and building and browsing records to designing smart user interfaces, from defining and validating fields to calculating and scripting essentials, This FileMaker tutorial demonstrates and clarifies both the big picture and the finer points of database management with FileMaker Pro 8.5. The training video also teaches users about a feature that is new to FileMaker 8.5-the Web Viewer-which allows the addition of a live web page within a record. Exercise files accompany the training. Close »

Instructor : Cris Ippolite

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Publisher:

lynda.com, Inc. - SKU: 02509

Duration:

8.5 hours - 103 lessons

Platform:

PC or Mac

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DVD Video

Price:

$99.95

£69.17

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