So really you have a fully functional solution here that we're really going to
create this whole thing. In fact, we'll even go so far as to create all the
reports; reports by products, reports by invoice. Here's a letter section. All
this stuff is going to be done and you'll know how to do this if you go through
all three tutorials. And we also want to show you another product that we'll be
using throughout. So let's move on. The second demonstration shows you the
FileMaker Reference. Now I'll be using this throughout the creation of this
database. This solution is also not unlocked. What we'll be doing is grabbing
scripts, calculations and graphics from this FileMaker Reference. Why is it not
unlocked? Well I'm going to give you whatever we grab out of it. Ok. It's going
to be in there. I'm just not going to give you the whole solution but it's an
easy way to show you how to grab it quickly out of a database. I can store all
of my graphics in there and just simply drag them in there. But I will give you
all of those graphics, all those calculations. Nothing will be kept from you.
You just don't get the whole entire reference. So let's take a look at it real
quickly. You'll see on the home page for the FileMaker Reference you have all
these sections; calculations, scripts, shortcuts, graphics is down here, new
features. There are all kinds of areas. We're going to be mostly in the
calculations area, scripts area and really probably 90% of the time just
getting graphics. So let's go ahead and look at the graphics here. And you can
see what I have is a whole bunch of graphic container fields. And I have these
pieces stored in here. And you can see that they correspond to what you see up
here. And if you walk through it you'll see that all these pieces are here.
There's even a 3D look that goes around the side. All these are built like legos.
And so I'll be dragging this out of the FileMaker Reference and into the invoice
solution that we'll be working on. And to get back to the home page just simply
click this and you can go into the calculations section where we'll most likely
be going into here as into the examples section. And we'll be searching for
different examples because that way instead of me just simply typing out the
whole formula, I can grab it, copy it and paste it. And it can save us some time
because you can always pause the tutorial and look at the formula and copy it down.
There's no reason why I have to spend so much time typing it out. And that way we
can actually go over more material that way. So hopefully this will help you out
in understanding that these two different solutions are not included inside the
tutorial. They are there but they are not unlocked. Now let's talk about the
work files. Each chapter has work files. For instance, the slides we're working
on right now looking through in chapter one here: they are all included in the
work files so you can look at them yourself. They're all file maker files so
they are easy to open up. But there are also other kinds of work files like I
might provide some graphics in a Jpeg file. I might have a table that you might
want to import. Or I might actually have a solution that's being created in there.
So in fact every single chapter will have the solution that we're creating. They'll
be a Start folder and an End folder in each chapter, well except for the first
one in the beginner. There won't be a start because we're starting from scratch.
But everyone after that will have a start and an end. And so the start will contain
the actual invoice solution, which will start out as a contact manager in the
beginner. That will be stored in the start so you have the actual file if you
let's say want to start on chapter five. Well you have the file that's been
built up through chapters one through four. And so you have the beginning of
chapter five. So if you just want to review chapter five you have that file there.
And in fact you also have the end. If you want to review your work or something
like that, you will have a folder in each chapter called N, which will have the
same invoicing solution in it that's built up through that chapter. So you
really have both ends, the beginning and ending of that chapter, that file so
you can start anywhere in the tutorial you want. Again I recommend you go from
beginning to end but it's very easy for me to provide this and could be useful
for you if you want to go back and review what you've done.
FileMaker Pro 9
John Mark Osborne
US$ 99.95
12.5 hours - 145 Movies
Win Vista XP 2000,ME. Mac OS X
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