Introduction to FileMaker Pro

One day of instructor-led, hands-on training

Focus

If you’re new to FileMaker Pro, this one-day workshop will get you up and running. Learn how to create and maintain a database using FileMaker Pro. You’ll explore detailed handouts (useful later for reference), participate in active discussions and try out what you learn on the computer. You’ll find out how to design your database, build it and use it in your work.

The Support Group is celebrating our 25th year in business by offering significant discounts on many of our classes.  Our one-day Introduction to FileMaker Pro, regularly priced at $295, is just $99!  Our two-day Intermediate FileMaker Pro is $399, a nearly $200 savings from the regular price of $595.  These special prices are good through December 31, 2010.

Benefits

By the end of this class, you will be able to:

• Plan a successful database to solve a business problem, or to improve your efficiency
• Create a new database
• Define fields, deciding which type is right for each kind of information
• Work with information in the individual records
• Find the records you need
• Sort groups of records for many different purposes
• Build layouts you can use for entering data, reviewing it and reporting

Who should take this class?

You should take this class if you are just getting started with FileMaker Pro. If you need to keep track of a lot of information that changes frequently, FileMaker Pro can help, because it is friendly, graphic and built from the ground up for non-programmers. You do not need to know anything about databases, or FileMaker Pro. When you leave our workshop, you will be able to create your own personal database.

Agenda

• Overview of databases: What are they, why do we use them, what’s involved
• Planning: Why careful plans make for successful databases
• Creating: What you do to start a database
• Defining: What different types of fields can do for you, and how to build them
• Working: How to enter information, edit it, display it and prepare reports
• Finding: How to locate just the set of records you need
• Sorting: Arranging a group of records in the order you need for on-screen comparisons or reports
• Laying it out: How to make a standard layout, columns, name tags and labels
• Sharing: Saving reports as Excel or PDF documents

Pricing

25th Anniversary pricing for our one-day Introduction to FileMaker Pro, regularly $295, is just $99. Register online now.