Introduction to FileMaker Pro

One day of instructor-led, hands-on training Special "Student Stimulus" Promotional Pricing

Register before December 31, take the class before February 28, 2010

Tuition for our one-day Introduction to FileMaker Pro class, normally $295, is now just $245. If you took a Support Group class before August 15, 2009, tuition is only $220! Register online now.

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 10 (with skills that can be applied as far back as FileMaker 7). 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.

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