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Live, interactive, personalized classes

Why are these classes different? 

Our approach insures 100% engagement from every student. No lecture, and all live development in FileMaker – on your screens and not mine. The material is optimized for retention, usefulness, and fun. It's a fresh approach, and proven effective.

WAN Performance Optimization

What aspects of FileMaker affect the speed of a cloud-hosted database

  • Unstored calculations: When to use them and when not to

  • New approaches to calculate and summarize data

  • How to optimize searches

  • How do card windows, tab panels, and other layout objects help you

Next class: September 3rd

8am Pacific  /  11am Eastern

​​​Scripting Essentials & Best practices

Scripting is the core of FileMaker development. Learn the basics, best practices, and some great tips and tricks.

  • Which script steps provide the most usefulness and why

    • "The Magic Quartet"​

  • Error trapping, looping, and JSON parameters

  • Introduction to PSoS: When and why to run scripts server-side

  • How to be kind to your future self

    • ( #comment   // comment  #comment)​

Next class: September 17th

8am Pacific  /  11am Eastern

JSON Essentials

JSON an important part of a FileMaker Developer's daily diet. Here you master the basics, and find great ways to use it.

  • Start with the basics: Parameter passing

  • Master reading and setting JSON

  • Building and editing a JSON object

  • Arrays, new features, and clever new uses

Next class: TBD

Dashboards

Gone are the days of the main menu. A dashboard is visual, meaningful and actionable. Learn great ways to make your users love your database with an intuitive, useful dashboard.​

  • Button Bars for the win – More flexible than you thought

  • Why scripting is the key to a great dashboard

  • JSON, multi-key relationships, and other novel methods

  • Chart integration: Simple and fast

Next class: TBD

Semantic Search & AI Integration

You've seen all the demos of how the new AI features work in FileMaker. Now it's time to integrate them into YOUR database. In this hands-on class, we will do that.

  • Understand the basics of Semantic Search

  • Use the new Embedding feature

  • GPT integration into your database for summarization and more

  • Tools and sample scripts will be provided

Next class: TBD

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