Scripting and Calculations - Advanced FileMaker Pro II
Two days of instructor-led, hands-on training
Focus
In Scripting and Calculations - Advanced FileMaker Pro II, you’ll learn how to build more robust, feature-rich databases with complex calculations and powerful scripted automation. We’ll cover advanced uses of FileMaker Pro’s built-in calculation functions; making use of loops, relationships, variables, parameters and results with scripts; and creating powerful user interfaces. Plus, our expert developer-instructors will share tips and techniques that will shave hours off your development time.
Benefits
By the end of these classes, you’ll be able to:
- Understand the impact of relational context on calculations
- Simplify tricky calculation formulas with functions
- Use portals and multiple windows for navigation and data entry
- Make use of script parameters, variables, and results to write powerful modular scripts
- Create multiple PDF documents with one script
Who should take this class
You should attend this class if you have already been using FileMaker Pro and you now want to create more sophisticated and complex solutions, typically used by others in your organization.
This class is ideal for students who have previously attended our Relational Database Design - Advanced FileMaker Pro I training, or have equivalent experience working with fields, layouts, calculations and scripts.
Agenda
- Parsing text
- Working with dates
- Logical functions
- Analyzing related values
- Conditional formatting
- Auto-enter calculations
- Navigation portals
- Scripted searches
- Handling errors
- Script parameters, variables, and results
- Working with multiple windows
- Script logic - Loops and Ifs
- Printing, saving, and emailing reports
Pricing
Tuition for our two-day Scripting and Calculations class is just $795. Register for both of our advanced classes (this and Relational Database Design) for a total of only $1,495, a $95 savings. Register online now.
