Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 14

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 14 Portals, continued & explained We build a portal from the courses screen into the enrollments table, allowing us to see who is enrolled in each course. We look quickly at how and why that works Video Link Files Download

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 13

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 13 More Scripts - Intro to Portals We adapt the same script that we wrote for generating class lists in order to generate a list of student classes. We also start taking a look at how to view related data through portals Video Link Files Download

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 12

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 12 Class Lists Continued - Extending Scripts We elaborate our scripts a bit to fully automate the process of generating class lists. Video Link Files Download

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 11

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 11 Saving time with buttons and scripts We flesh out our Course interface screen and build some buttons and scripts to expedite printing class lists Video Link Files Download

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 10

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 10 Class Lists Continued We build the flip side of a class list - a student enrollment list, showing all the courses each student is taking. Video Link Files Download

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 9

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 9 Crafting Print Layouts - Class Lists We continue our work with the enrollment table, and look at how to build a clean-looking class list. Video Link Files Download

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 8

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 8 Enrollment, Part II We continue to fill out our enrollment table and begin working it into class lists Video Link Files Download

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 7

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 7 Creating an Enrollment Table We implement the “enrollment table” concept we developed in excel and add courses to our FileMaker application Video Link Files Download

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 6

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 6 Getting Into Class Lists We talk about “Excel-think” and how to avoid it in FileMaker (and in excel!) Video Link Files Download

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 5

Five Minute FileMaker - Chapter 5 Taking a moment to plan - building in a planning table We take a minute to build a table just to house our planning notes. We explore how to time and datestamp each record when it’s created or modified, and we start looking at how to build our own buttons. Video Link [...]