Tips and Techniques for Interface Design in FileMaker Pro
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- Getting the essentials right
- Analysis of attractive screen designs - good examples and why they work
- The Data Separation Model
- Tips for easy maintenance
- Selecting data from what's available
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Overview
Topics covered include Getting the essentials right, Analysis of attractive screen design - good examples and why they work, The data separation model, Tips for easy maintenance, Selecting data from what's available, Printing, Creating a progress bar for time-consuming operations and Controlling which features users are allowed to operate.
Course Outline
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
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