Extending FileMaker Pro 11.0 - Using the Web viewer

Duration: 2 Days

Objectives

FileMaker Pro’s Web viewer, introduced in version 8.5, opens up huge potential for more sophisticated data presentation and extraction. This one day course gives students ideas about how the Web viewer can be used to enhance any FileMaker database solution.

Pre-requisites

Good existing FileMaker Pro 10.0 skills, to at least the level of the Transmedia “Intermediate FileMaker Pro” course, including a sound understanding of relationships and scripting.

Course includes

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.

This course is available as a private or customised course. Please phone us on 0208 269 4260 or email us for further information and to customise this course to your exact requirements.

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Course outline

Using calculated URLs to display data within the Web viewer
• Specifying a simple URL
• Building calculated URLs using data from FileMaker fields
• Worked example (1) - using Xe.com to retrieve live currency exchange rates
• Worked example (2) - using a thesaurus within FileMaker

Using the Web viewer to display the contents of container fields
• Reviewing the data types that cannot be displayed within FileMaker’s container fields
• Displaying the contents of a PDF file
• Practical demonstration

Using Data URLs in the Web viewer
• Review of some limitations, constraints and overheads of FileMaker-only data display
• Review of data display options achieveable with HTML
• Replicating status area information such as found counts, record numbers etc, using a web viewer
• Creating an animated progress display message using a Web viewer and a graphic encoded as data
• Creating basic bar charts from calculated HTML

Building charts and other sophisticated kinds of data display
• Creating simple pie charts using the Google chart API
• Creating different chart types using SWF (Flash) files

Using Web viewer connections as marketing tools
• Building Twitter feeds using FileMaker data

Extracting information from websites using the FileMaker web viewer
• Types of web-based information that might prove useful to us within FileMaker
• Data Scraping defined
• Worked example (3) - extracting address information from websites