Enhance your FileMaker Pro interface design skills. Improve database layouts with expert tips and techniques, enhancing app user experience and development workflows.
2 day course 10am - 5pm Live Online or Classroom-based
What you will learn
- Exploring more advanced interface design techniques in FileMaker Pro, for visually appealing and user-friendly database applications.
- How to use custom styles, themes and layouts, empowering you to design interfaces that reflect your brand in the most efficient way.
- Understanding navigation, data presentation and input validation, helping you guide users through your applications intuitively.
- How to create responsive designs that adapt to different screen sizes and devices, enabling you to deliver a seamless experience across platforms.
- Exploring advanced layout objects and scripting techniques, helping you add interactivity and functionality to your interfaces.
- How to optimise your interfaces for performance and accessibility, empowering you to create efficient and robust database solutions.
- Understanding best practices for user testing and feedback, helping you refine your designs and deliver applications that meet user needs effectively.
This Interface Design Skills in FileMaker Pro course includes
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Authorised Certificate
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Lifetime support after your course
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Course materials
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Live Instructor-led training
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Refreshments all day
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Latest Mac or PC ready to go
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Authorised Trainers
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Hands-on exercises
Book this course
We offer Interface Design Skills in FileMaker Pro as a private course.
You can select a date which suits you or your team.
The course content can be fully customised to your exact learning requirements.
Request datesCourse Outline for Interface Design Skills in FileMaker Pro
Getting the essentials right
- Managing the different needs of different users
- Input, organise, output
- Keeping data safe - who can do what, and when they can do it
Analysis of attractive screen designs - good examples and why they work
- The FileMaker Themes pack
- The common features of an interface that's appealing, easy to use and easy to maintain
- Sources of free graphics
- Cross-platform considerations
The Data Separation Model
- Understanding the concept
- Benefits of data separation
- Practical demonstration
Tips for easy maintenance
- Modularise your scripts - build a list of sub-scripts that can be called again and again within your solution
- Use global fields so that you have a single location to update images, text values and preferences
- Build a database template to reuse in future solutions
Selecting data from what's available
- Picking your data from what is appropriate - how to use Conditional Value Lists
- Drilling down - using portals on tab controls to make choices at each level within your data structures
Creating a progress bar for time-consuming operations
- Purpose of a progress bar
- Building a generic progress bar
Controlling which features users are allowed to operate
- Hiding and revealing whole areas of functionality quickly and easily
- Buttons that appear and disappear as appropriate
Miscellaneous techniques
- Restoring the old found set when no records are found on a new search
- Separating a popover layout from the button that displays it
- Using the Get Field function to create a 'one size fits all' summarised report layout
- Layout calculations
- Speeding up processes using Perform Script on Server
- Using icons to create graphic switches as a more elegant way to toggle on and off settings (better than checkboxes)
- Hiding and showing an icon in a portal
FAQs about the Interface Design Skills in FileMaker Pro course
How is the content taught throughout the Tips and Techniques for Interface Design in FileMaker Pro course?
Our Tips and Techniques for Interface Design in FileMaker Pro course is extremely interactive. You will be using FileMaker Pro throughout the day, working through examples of interface design with live projects under the guidance of our trainer, who will be supporting you through each step.
Is this Tips and Techniques for Interface Design in FileMaker Pro course suitable for me?
This course is designed for people who are new to FileMaker Pro or have been using FileMaker Pro for a while but have never had formal training or who would like to learn best practice in FileMaker Pro. If you are have any questions about whether the course could meet your needs, please speak to our customer service team, who will be delighted to advise you.
Will I receive a certificate upon completion of my Tips and Techniques for Interface Design in FileMaker Pro course?
Yes, you'll receive a certificate of completion from Transmedia, demonstrating your knowledge and attendance on our Tips and Techniques for Interface Design in FileMaker Pro course. Our certificates note our Authorised Training Centre status.
What is the recommended number of people for the class when I attend the Tips and Techniques for Interface Design in FileMaker Pro course?
For private classes in Tips and Techniques for Interface Design in FileMaker Pro, we recommend a maximum of 8 to 10 people from the same company in the class. Please ask our customer service team to help you find the right balance of people per class and the number of days training you need.
Should I attend the Tips and Techniques for Interface Design in FileMaker Pro course in person or live online?
For in-person courses at our London training centre, you will receive a warm personal welcome, your choice of the latest Mac or PC and morning and afternoon refreshments. If you prefer to attend remotely, rest assured that you will be taught live by the same experts that deliver our in-person courses, covering the same training content, using the same exercises and materials. A second monitor is recommended but not essential.
What support is available after I attend the Tips and Techniques for Interface Design in FileMaker Pro course?
We offer ongoing support to our Tips and Techniques for Interface Design in FileMaker Pro course attendees through email and by arrangement, phone calls. You are welcome to ask any questions on topics covered during training. Our trainer will always do their best to explain principles and help you with any issues you encounter.
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Prices for bespoke sessions with our expert trainers start at £595 + VAT, depending on the course and number of people.
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