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Beginners FileMaker 11 Training DVD – Tutorial Videos
These Beginners FileMaker Tutorial videos are the ideal way for users to quickly advance their working knowledge of this powerful Database application. Taught by a leading FileMaker expert, practical working files also accompany this self-paced training series.
FileMaker 11 Tutorial Video
This Beginners FileMaker 11 Tutorial Video is designed to help new users gain a comfortable working familiarity with the software. As it is the first tutorial video in a multi-course series, it is not meant to cover every aspect of FileMaker, but it does address an impressive range of tasks and techniques, all aimed at the novice user.
With onscreen narration provided by longtime FileMaker script developer and power user John Mark Osbourne, the training videos offer useful tips based upon real world experience. At the center of this tutorial video is the development of a functioning Contacts solution, pulling together multiple skills that will serve users in any aspect of FileMaker usage. Written so that even someone who has never used FileMaker can follow along, complex techniques are split into simple steps, and everything is explained one point at a time. However, even experienced users can benefit from the training as it sets up the early stages of the invoicing project at the center of the later tutorial instalments.
Topics covered include Creating a Database, Finding and Sorting, Modifying Layouts, Scripting, Reports, and more. The tutorial comes on CD / DVD or as streaming video for subscribers of the unlimited online service, all options allow you to learn FileMaker at your own speed.
FileMaker 11: Charting a New Course
Because it allowed easy, automated access to a variety of data types, FileMaker has always been seen as a natural companion to user-created charts and graphs. While in the past this was achievable primarily through third party extensions and scripts or simply exporting the information into Microsoft Excel and other software solutions, FileMaker 11 now has the built-in capability to create instant visual representations of user data sets.
Accessible through a native, wizard-based interface that walks you through a number of options, the charts offer a variety of style choices and color considerations that will help you customize the appearance of your presentations for almost any effect you desire. With support for Bar, Line, Area, and Pie charts, the program brings a significant amount of value added without a major increase in difficulty for the end user. Once your business data has been incorporated into Filemaker and compatible filetypes, you can track sales performance numbers, progress reports, market analyses and more through the dynamic chart functionality and easily share your information with others.
The instant Web Publishing option built into FileMaker Pro 11 is the perfect complement to the chart and graph functionality. By giving you a simple and effective way to put up-to-date information into the hands of those who need it, the new features in FileMaker transform the application from a multi-purpose organization application into a true business intelligence tool.
When these improvements are considered in combination with new options for creating spreadsheet-like summaries and reports, the impressive range of what is possible for the power user extends even further. While the new features are relatively easy to use, FileMaker is still a large, versatile platform and having the right introduction will certainly help.
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Beginners FileMaker 10 Tutorial Video
Beginners FileMaker 10 Tutorial Video
Learn how to use FileMaker from on of the worlds leading trainers from the comfort of your own desk. Never before has FileMaker training of this quality been so affordable.
Beginner FileMaker Pro 10 Tutorial Video
This Beginner FileMaker Pro 10 Tutorial video series takes you step by step through FileMaker Inc.’s latest version of their top-tier database management solution and shows you how to leverage its newest and most powerful features to your advantage. Continuing its vital presence as a GUI-friendly database management solution on both Mac OS X and Windows, FileMaker Pro 10 also brings a host of changes that make it the most compelling upgrade to the product line since FileMaker 7. In this series of visually-focused, example-based lessons, instructor John Mark Osborne draws from years of experience as a FileMaker developer and certified trainer to introduce Version 10, highlighting the changes and new features of the this release, covering everything from the interface changes to certain differences found in FileMaker Pro Advanced.
Although principally designed for beginners, the FileMaker course covers a lot of ground and does touch on subjects that are of a slightly more advanced nature. Whether you’re a developer, end-user or both, these video tutorials have everything you need to know to get started creating and working with databases, modifying layouts, working with container fields, scripting, printing and more.
Featuring a real-time display of the application in use, the FileMaker tutorial videos allow users to learn by being shown, not just told, as techniques being demonstrated in the video appear exactly as they would in everyday use. This visual focus of the lessons not only makes it easy to learn initially but also increases retention of the skills learned.
FileMaker Pro 10’s Interface Enhancements
The user interface of FileMaker has gradually been altered with each release in small ways, but the changes in the latest version are the most dramatic the program has had in nearly ten years. The intention of this change, according to FileMaker developers, is to allow easier access to the program’s powerful underlying features.
From the very beginning, FileMaker has positioned itself as a database solution friendly to less technical users, so, if anything, the interface changes are overdue. The new Status Toolbar’s buttons for executing common tasks puts FileMaker in line with mainstream office and productivity applications, and makes many frequently used functions just a click away. Sensitive to their longtime users, however, FileMaker engineers have kept previous menu and keyboard shortcuts intact.
Performing searches from within the UI has also gotten easier. A short history of recent finds is now automatically saved for users’ easy access, removing the need to keep switching back to find mode to repeat common queries as in the past. In fact, users can also save searches and bookmark them for future use. These settings are user-specific, so that tailor-made searches can be easily created for specialized departmental use.
Combining Knowledge and Execution
FileMaker Pro 10 is the most user-friendly release yet, and accomplishing many tasks is easier than it ever has been before. At the core, however, creating a database and customizing a solution to fit your needs takes work. This tutorial video series is meant to make you comfortable with FileMaker Pro and teach you how to use it to get real results. Learning an application like FileMaker from the ground up can be intimidating, but with the right training, it doesn’t have to be.
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FileMaker 11 Tutorial Video – Beginners
