Although many of the people who find their way to this site are seasoned FileMaker Pro users, developers, and/or advocates; however, for those of you who are new to FileMaker Pro we justed wanted to take a second to describe how we ’see’ the FileMaker product line.
FileMaker database products have now been on the market for over 20 years, so there are a huge number of resources on the internet which will discuss FileMaker Pro. In our opinion, many of these resources (possibily including the FileMaker website) show the most simplistic solutions. FileMaker is one of the easiest database products on the market, yet there is a ‘hidden power’ to those who choose to harness this power. Much of this power is not high in the marketing materials because FileMaker, Inc. does not wish to ’scare’ would be users away from their products.
If you are reading through this site, we assume that you are looking to utiulize FileMaker in a ‘real-world’ networked environment. We assume that you want to go ‘beyond the basics’ and/or learn enough to hire a professional which is capable of going ‘beyond the basics’.
As we author this post, FileMaker Pro 9 is the current shipping verision of the FileMaker Pro product line. It is the most powerful version of FileMaker to date. It can connect with a huge number of web-based technologies, it can interact with large ‘SQL’ databases like Oracle, msSQL, and mySQL, but most importantly, FileMaker can deliver robust solutions for far less money than most it’s competitors.
Quality of the end product, ROI, and speed of development are thekey reasons that most of our clients have choosen FileMaker Pro. Most of your clients utilize multi-user solutins where their entire workgroup can share database information.
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The FM Developer’s Network is a loosely associated set of FileMaker developers which haved pooled their collective talents to provide superior results and increased value. We offer the support and the experaince of a large consultancy- without the overhead or profit sharing which is normally associated with these firms.
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One of the ‘value added’ services we provide our clients, is that all our developers share a common approach to FileMaker development. The FileMaker environment allows for a great amount of personal style when designing a FileMaker solution.
The initial purpose of this blog was to communicate to new developers how and why we like to develop our solultions; after all, it’s hard to hold developers accountable if we never document what we expect from them.
As we started to discuss these standards among yourselves, if occurred to us that
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Much of the advice on this website can be found elsewhere; however, we have delveloped a variation of the Anchor Buoy Method which we have not seen in other places. We devide our graphs into sections and then ‘number’ the sections, whil also giving them a name. That section number is then used in out script and layout naming.
In our experaince, a FileMaker developer rarey does any work without dropping at least a few Table Occurances in place.
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There are a number of ‘developers’ which claim to be ‘professionals’; however, it is my experiance that at least 50% of these ‘professionals’ can not describe with any certianity how they organize their solutions.
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