FileMaker Training Series

The FileMaker Training Series is the official training curriculum from FileMaker, Inc. It offers a series of 12 training modules that cover a comprehensive set of topics designed to help you master the essentials of FileMaker solution development. This new series incorporates the many new features of the FileMaker 11 product line throughout the modules.

• Learn best practices for developing professional database solutions with FileMaker 11 products.
• Get results more quickly than using self-teaching methods.
• Work with certified FileMaker experts who can answer your most technical questions.
• Network with others and learn what they are doing and how they accomplish it.
• Share your ideas and tips.

• Familiar with the basics and want a solid grounding in key FileMaker development principles.
• Comfortable with FileMaker Pro and want to advance your development skills.
• An expert developer and want to fill in any gaps in your knowledge.
• Planning to become a FileMaker 11 Certified Developer.

• In-depth course manual with 12 modules and over 700 pages of content.
• A CD that includes demo files, exercises, videos, and PDFs of the manual.

1. Using FileMaker Pro
   Approach FileMaker Pro 11 from the perspective of users: learn techniques for working with FileMaker data, printing and exporting, performing and saving Find requests, and accessing features for working with email, Adobe PDF and Microsoft Excel documents.
2. Working with Fields
   Learn practical skills required to define FileMaker Pro 11 data tables and fields. This module explores data types and options for auto-entry, validation, and field storage. Discover how to manage images and other objects in container fields and work with the Database Design Report in FileMaker Pro Advanced.
3. Data Modeling
   Learn how to construct different types of data relationships, ensure data integrity, and implement multiple-table solutions. This module also covers lessons in building layouts using related data fields and portals.
4. Working with Layouts
   Discover tools and techniques for creating layouts in FileMaker Pro 11, including conditional formatting, auto-resize, web viewers, tab controls, and tooltips. Understand how field behavior and tab orders are controlled, and learn to create and use different kinds of value lists
5. Calculation Functions
   Learn how functions work in the calculation engine in FileMaker Pro 11 and how to apply them in various contexts. Study how custom functions are built and how to use them in database solutions.
6. Scripts
   Explore the new Script Trigger features of FileMaker Pro 11, as well as best practices for writing scripts. Learn how to build navigation and window controls, and study logical branching and looping routines.
7. Reporting
   Practice creating reports in FileMaker Pro 11 using a variety of techniques. Explore sub-summary reports that group information by break fields. Learn how to build a cross-tab report (with data-driven columns) and an HTML report that is displayed via the Web viewer object.
8. Security
   Study the account-based security features of FileMaker Pro 11 and learn how to implement privilege sets, tie access to database solutions to external authentication servers, control both access and authoring rights to systems, and extend security controls with scripting.
9. Intermediate & Advanced Techniques
   Work with relational value lists, write scripts that leverage object naming, and explore custom menus in depth. Learn advanced techniques with portals that include dynamic sorting, filtering, row highlights and preview panes.
10. FileMaker Server
    Learn the best practices for setting up and maintaining FileMaker Server 11 and FileMaker Server 11 Advanced. Understand how and why to use server-side scripts. Review hardware and networking requirements, learn proper backup routines, and be trained in configuration processes.
11. Connectivity
    Learn how to integrate FileMaker 11 with SQL systems, both through ODBC connections and with the External SQL Data Source capabilities. Review configuration processes and learn to use other data systems in tandem with your FileMaker Pro databases.
12. Web Publishing
    Understand the capabilities of both Instant Web Publishing (IWP) and Custom Web Publishing in FileMaker Pro 11 and FileMaker Server 11 Advanced, and learn how to develop solutions to publish via the Web. Review the PHP Site Assistant and gain hands-on experience with IWP.