Filemaker Database Design Beginning Tutorials
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A well-designed database promotes consistent data entry and retrieval, and reduces the existence of duplicate data among the database tables. Relational database tables work together to ensure that the correct data is available when you need it. It’s a good idea to plan a database on paper first. Follow these general steps to plan a database:
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Relational Database Design 101 (part 1 of 3): Designing a Flat File Database
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Relational Database Design 101 (part 2 of 3)
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Relational Database Design 101 (part 3 of 3)
MY STANDARD LIST OF FILEMAKER LINKS The White Paper for FMP Novices is useful -
http://foundationdbs.com/downloads.html Filemaker Free - Listing of free resources - http://filemakerfree.com/ Free unlocked templates By Richard Carlton Consulting Starting Point - http://fmstartingpoint.com/ Donations - http://filemakerdonations.com/ Recruiter - http://rccrecruiter.com/alt-index.html/ Data4Life - http://data4life.net/ RCC Blog - http://filemakerbits.wordpress.com/ By yzysoft.com Contacts | Products | Invoices | Letters Sample Database - http://yzysoft.com/printouts/yzysoft_SampleDatabase.html A free calendar is available and can be integrated into your database Seedcode Calendar Free - http://seedcode.com/cp-app/prod/calendarfree10/ Filemaker's Online Help Pages FMP 12 http://www.filemaker.com/12help/index.html FMP 11 http://www.filemaker.com/11help/index.html FMP 9 http://www.filemaker.com/9help/index.html FMP business database demos - some are fully useable The Excelisys Business Tracker V3.0 - http://excelisys.com/exbiztracker3.php/ Filemaker released a FMP runtime database in 2007 for students called "Campus Productivity Kit" and is available online, notably at CNet Google "Campus Productivity Kit" https://www.google.com/search?q="Campus+Productivity+Kit" WIN - http://download.cnet.com/FileMaker-Campus-Productivity-Kit/3000-2124_4-10577579.html/ Mac - http://download.cnet.com/FileMaker-Campus-Productivity-Kit/3000-2124_4-10577567.html/ You can rename the database from a .usr file to a .fp7 file and open in FMP 7 thru 11 Filemaker News Scoop.it is an information curation site - free option available. Filemaker Info - http://scoop.it/t/filemaker-info Filemaker News - http://www.scoop.it/t/fm-news Filemaker Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileMaker Filemaker - Version By Version - http://tokerud.com/filemaker/ Search specific Filemaker sites with this Custom Google Search http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=001044389222327874554:vi8it1bulm8 |
Video Tutorials and Demos
Lynda dot com has Filemaker Videos (portions are free)
http://lynda.com/FileMaker-training-tutorials/116-0.html YouTube - Filemaker Videos FMTutorials Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/FmTutorials/ UK FileMaker Channel http://youtube.com/user/UKFileMaker/ FileMaker, Inc. Channel http://youtube.com/user/filemakerinc/ Lynda.com Channel - Filemaker videos http://youtube.com/user/lyndapodcast/videos?query=filemaker Dwayn Wright's Channel http://youtube.com/user/FileMakerThoughts/ Soliant Consulting Channel https://youtube.com/user/SoliantConsultingTV/ Filemaker Academy Channel https://youtube.com/user/filemakeracademy/ Skeleton Key Channel http://youtube.com/user/SkeletonKeySTL/ Accelerate Computer Training Channel http://youtube.com/user/AccelerateTraining/ |