Learning Claris FileMaker

If you want to build your own app for your business, then FileMaker is just the platform: powerful, yet accessible enough for those focussed on solving problems, especially if you have a bent for code. But where do you begin?

In this article Stu takes a look at the latest template files from FileMaker Inc., files that get you up and running with a basic working solution, but they're open for you to then add-on and customise:

Experience innovation in your workplace, firsthand.

See how the Memberships Template can help you provide more detailed tracking of members, campaigns, and donations.

You can learn to add more functionality with build-ons.

Experience innovation in your workplace, firsthand.

See how the Job Tracking Template can help you be more productive by streamlining the management of tasks, staff, and clients associated with a job.

You can learn to add more functionality with build-ons.

FileMaker Templates make it easier to build custom apps for your business.

Learn how to use them from the team that built them here.

Experience innovation in your workplace, firsthand.

See how the Event Management Template can help you be more efficient by managing events, attendees, and sessions, all in one place.

You can learn to add more functionality with build-ons.

File Foundation Built for You

At the core of the FileMaker templates, you’ll find a solid, consistent design, clean look, and strategic user interface and user experience.

Look under the hood and you’ll find much of the same.

That wasn’t by accident.

Our team spent a great deal of time determining how these apps should look, how they should flow, and most importantly, how to develop them.

Unlike starter solutions, these files are meant to be dissected, understood, learned from, and actually built upon.

I’d like to go into some detail about some of the best practices we hit on as we worked through our design and development process for them.

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