FileMaker Pro Advanced | Training Course
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- 2 day course
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- Live Online or Classroom-based
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- Maximum class size of 6 for scheduled courses
- Unlimited support after your course
- Courses at all levels: Introduction, Intermediate, Advanced and Masterclasses
Course Outline
- Finding records and navigation within a table
- Displaying related records on a layout
- Optimum approaches to editing a record
- Methods of creating new records
- Further exercises according to time available
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Overview of FileMaker Pro Advanced
Course Outline for the FileMaker Pro Advanced Training Course
Finding records and navigation within a table
- Writing a competent search script
- Writing a type ahead script trigger
- Restoring the found set after finding no records that match your criteria
- Navigating the found set using the Master-Detail portal approach
- Avoiding the limitations of Master-Detail and using a self-join instead
- Using portal filtering to manage larger record sets
- Using ExecuteSQL to find data
- Understanding the strengths of ExecuteSQL to make complex searches more easily
- Displaying the results of a data retrieval in a portal
Displaying related records on a layout
- More creative use of table joins
- Using non-equijoin relationships
- Multi-parameter relationships
- Self relationships
- Controlling portals using relationships featuring globally-stored field values
- Achieving better information presentation through filtered portals
Optimum approaches to editing a record
- Avoiding thoughtless editing and good practice for permitting and preventing the editing of records
- Starting from an Edit button
- Locking down the environment during the editing process
- Record locking and preventing Commit during the editing process
- Saving or reverting to previous values at the end
- Writing a generic script to roll back to previous values AFTER Commit
Methods of creating new records
- Choosing from existing values: Value Lists vs. Portals on a Popover vs. a Card window list
- Opening a new window to create a new record
- Writing a validation script to save a new record
- Picking and unpicking records from a portal Pick List including icons to indicate add and remove
- Looping: initialise, perform, using ExitLoopIf ()
- Collecting IDs into a variable array
- Creating multiple records records as a batch process using 'Allow Creation of Related Records'
Further exercises according to time available
- Adding an audit trail to your solution
- Portal sorting
- Exploring script triggers in more depth
- Accessing basic web services using Insert From URL
- Using relationships to create conditional value lists
- Using the WHILE function as a better alternative to recursive functions
- Understanding the Data Separation model
- Using Virtual Lists
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