Let's talk a little bit about how these tutorials are organized so you can make
the most out of your experience watching them. First of all the tutorials are
divided into three. One is for beginner. Ones for intermediate and one is for
advanced. However, they are all connected with one solution. We will be
creating an invoicing solution, which really starts out, as a contact manager
in the beginner and that will translate over into intermediate and advanced
because really to create a solution one tutorial is not enough. You really need
to go through beginner, intermediate and advanced. And so even if you're an
intermediate user you really want to watch the beginner because there's a whole
bunch of stuff that's covered there. Even if you know most of it I'm sure there
will be little tidbits of knowledge you will gain; plus it will set up what
we're going to do in the intermediate and advanced tutorials. So we've chosen
to use one solution so that everything is connected together. So you cannot
only see what all the techniques are but how they tie together to create a whole
solution. You can view the tutorials separately. Basically we include the work
file after each chapter. So if we go through four or five tutorials for a
chapter, what we've done in those four or five tutorials will be saved in a
file so that you can come into any one of the chapters and review something or
even just start there and have what we've done before in the previous tutorials.
So this can be really helpful given that we've chosen to make it one solution
throughout, not just a bunch of techniques. So you can actually if you want, I
don't necessarily recommend it, but you can go in and pick and choose which
chapters you want to watch and you will have the example work file that goes
along with that. Let's talk a little bit about what the beginner tutorial covers.
Essentially we're going to create a fully functional solution starting from the
beginning. So we're going to start from scratch. There will be nothing there
and we'll create everything. And while we're going to be ultimately creating
an invoicing solution in the beginner tutorial we'll start off with a contact
manager. And that will be integrated into the invoicing solution. And what we'll
be covering in the beginner, data entry, how to create fields, how to create
tables, how to create layouts, all the things that go along with layouts.
We'll cover all the different modes like: Find and Browse and Preview and Layout
Mode. We'll cover all the menus so you're familiar with just about every single
choice under the menus. We'll cover Value Lists so you can make Popup Menus and
Radio Buttons. We'll talk about Auto-Enter, Validating. We'll work with some
Container Fields to import pictures and PDF documents. We'll print, obviously
making a layout for printing and one for data entry. We'll show you how to do
all that stuff, importing, exporting. We'll work with templates, little bit of
scripting, little bit of calculations and even reporting - so quite a bit to do
in the beginner tutorial. We'll start off slow and we'll kind of ramp it up
towards the end. But if you've never worked with FileMaker before the beginner
tutorial is designed for you to start with no knowledge at all and come up to
an intermediate level so you can continue on with the tutorial series. When you
get onto the intermediate tutorial, we will continue with the solution covering
intermediate tasks. We'll those would be interface design, some thing more
spectacular than what you can just do with the FileMaker tools. We'll start
creating relationships - so that means we'll have multiple tables, which means
we'll have multiple table occurrences. We'll work with security; you know
accounts, privileges, extended privileges. We'll talk about multi-user stuff
like record locking and how to work with it in a multi-user scenario. We'll
take a stab at custom functions and inside custom functions we'll even go into
Recursive custom functions. We'll talk about finding overdue invoices, which is
writing a script, very cool thing. We'll work with the Script Debugger, the
Database Design Report, plugins, deleting duplicates, dynamic scripting and
advance validations and of course much more stuff that can be actually listed
here; all in the context of an invoicing solution. So by the time you get done
with the beginner, intermediate you'll almost have a complete invoicing solution.
Once you get done with the advanced which we're going to next you will have a
complete invoicing solution, just about everything you'd want in there. So the
advanced tutorial completes the invoicing solution. And we'll cover things like
the Ultimate Find, doing a Back and Forward button much like a web browser.
We'll talk about how to save a found set of records for future retrieval and also
allow users an easy interface they can choose which found set they want to
retrieve and restore into their database. We'll do Recursive Phone filters,
custom form letters. Now these are not the standard form letters that you're
used to when you're working with just a layout. We're talking about form
letters that can be modified by the user in Browse Mode, so a very, very
advanced technique. We'll talk about text style manipulation with scripts and
calculations. We'll show how to make it easier for new requests to be made by
the user in fact they won't even realize their making a request. So one of the
important things about advanced techniques is your trying to separate the user
from having to know FileMaker, just have to know your solution. So if their
comfortable with it they can actually do complex things like new requests or
multiple requests without knowing that they are actually doing them and get the
benefits from them. We'll talk about cross tab reports, filter portals, logging
changes to your database in a separate database or inside the same one - lots of
different approaches and even deployment considerations. Tons of stuff we're
going to talk about. We'll get to all that through all these three tutorials and
hopefully that will give you all that you need to be a FileMaker developer.
FileMaker Pro 9
John Mark Osborne
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