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Introducing the FileMaker family

Introducing the FileMaker family - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Introducing the FileMaker family

Before we get started with our exercises, I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to the six different products in the FileMaker 12 product family. First, there's FileMaker Pro 12. This is the product that we are going to be using throughout this title, and it's the standard user version of FileMaker Pro that allows you to create your own databases, modify those databases, and basically do everything that we are going to be talking about in this title. FileMaker Pro 12 Advanced has all the functionality I described of FileMaker Pro 12, but it also has some additional tools that developers will find useful like script debuggers or the ability to create customized menus allowing you to create runtime versions of FileMaker Pro applications in those types of developer-type features. It costs a little bit more, but if you want that extra functionality, and you're going to be maintaining databases using FileMaker, FileMaker Pro Advanced might be the right product for you to have. Then…

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