In this course, Cris Ippolite walks through the essential FileMaker Pro skills, from creating tables to managing fields and records and working with layouts. The course shows how to find and sort data, create reports, import and export data, create scripts, and diagram relationships, and more.
Topics include:
Comparing flat vs. relational databases
Creating databases from templates
Determining what tables you need
Understanding relationship types
Defining key fields and creating relationships between tables
Creating fields
Using new FileMaker 12 container fields
Creating, duplicating, editing, and deleting records
Importing and exporting data
Managing layouts and layout objects
Applying new FileMaker 12 themes to layouts
Finding records and working with found sets
Building reports and charts
Authoring calculations
Creating and triggering scripts
Working with relationships in scripts, calculations, and charts
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