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Getting going with starter solutions - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: Learning FileMaker 16
Getting going with starter solutions
- [Instructor] There's a couple different ways that you can begin creating a FileMaker custom app and in the rest of this course, we're going to be creating one from scratch. But before we did that, I wanted to show you how you can create a FileMaker custom app through a template that FileMaker calls Starter Solutions. I happen to be a big fan of Starter Solutions. They're a great way to learn about FileMaker, what the capabilities are, kind of get in there and reverse engineer a little bit and see how something's been created, or you can just use it as is and put your own data into it. So if you're interested in accessing these, if you go under the File menu, you'll notice that you have two different options, Get Started and New Solution. Let's look at the Get Started. You'll see that FileMaker has this nice screen that pops up. It allows you to choose a Starter Solution or just begin creating your own custom. We'll get to creating our own custom in a minute. But if you look at the…
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Using guides, arranging, aligning, grouping and locking layout objects7m 12s
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Applying themes to layouts1m 28s
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Working with shapes in your layouts6m 14s
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Applying screen stencils6m 13s
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Working with images and icons on your layouts5m 57s
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Gradients2m 6s
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Formatting fields and applying field attributes5m 35s
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Layout object states6m 2s
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Access control behavior1m 59s
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Using the tab control feature6m 36s
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Using slide controls in your layouts4m 15s
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Popovers in your layouts6m 18s
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Setting the tab order3m 23s
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Learning how to conditionally hide layout objects4m 52s
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Using the layout objects window5m 28s
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What are scripts and script steps?2m 43s
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Assigning script steps to buttons4m 2s
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Touring the Script workspace4m 11s
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Creating multiline scripts6m 58s
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Adding find criteria to a script7m 27s
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Using new window script step8m
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Understanding the "If" script step5m 41s
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Using script parameters, set field, and error capture5m 10s
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Sending emails in your scripts6m 4s
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Importing scripts from other files3m 7s
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