FileMaker Pro for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Using This Popular Relational Database Management System"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

FileMaker Pro is a commercially sold database management system that can be used by individuals with PCs at home such as ourselves and small businesses. It is a proven product that has survived years of competition with Microsoft Access, Paradox and Visual FoxPro. FileMaker Pro is the most popular database for MacIntosh owners and is popular with Windows users too.

You can use FileMaker Pro to hook a web site up to a database. Say you run a small business on the Internet. You want to collect and store the names and email addresses of people who request information about your products. You can do that with this program.

If you do want to put it on the web, you also need to buy FileMaker Server.

It has a unique feature called forms. This is an arrangement of a set of database fields for a particular file. Each file can have as many forms as you desire. When I wanted to see information in the databases I created with Paradox, years ago, I had to call up the entire table.

FileMaker Pro has four modes of operation:

Browse
Layout
Find
Preview

You can use ScriptMaker to write scripts to automate a large series of complex steps. Also, FileMaker Pro supports the database connectivity standards ODBC and JDBC.

FileMaker Pro can import and export data to other databases, including supporting XML. Imported data must conform to FMPXMLRESULT. Exported data must conform to either FMPXMLRESULT or FMPDSORESULT.

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