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What are calculations?

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What are calculations?

- [Instructor] If I were to break a FileMaker application down into three parts I would start with the architecture. Meaning, we've got a place where we can store all the information. And we talked about that earlier in this course when we talked about our tables and determining what tables we need, and then the fields so that we can actually put data into our system, and even finding data and retrieving data when we need it. Then it boils down to input. We want to make sure that we have layouts designed and have them done in an intuitive fashion so that it's easy for users to interact with our data. I would say one of the most powerful parts of any application is the output portion. Now we've already talked about printing and reports, now I would go so far as to say that outputting data from a FileMaker system goes way beyond just reports. I like to think of all the data that we're putting into the database, I would like to have it work for us. And this is what the concept of…

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