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FileMaker Naming Conventions and Standards are especially important in a team environment.

Make your applications easier to maintain and developer friendly.

It might sound trivial, but naming conventions are significant factors when you're developing business applications.

A systematic way of naming files, tables, fields, etc. provides a high level of organization, consistency and efficiency to both app developers and users.

A good naming convention also allows an app to be easily adaptable, scalable and transferable throughout its useful life.

It might sound trivial, but naming conventions are significant factors when you're developing business applications.

A systematic way of naming files, tables, fields, etc. provides a high level of organization, consistency and efficiency to both app developers and users.

A good naming convention also allows an app to be easily adaptable, scalable and transferable throughout its useful life.

These benefits all apply for apps developed within Claris’s FileMaker Platform.

What's in a Name? ... read more on the blog

There are different factors that contribute to a successful custom application. Of course, function is important, but even if the app does exactly what users need it to do, users may not necessarily like it if it's difficult to use due to poor legibility, navigability, responsiveness, etc.

FileMaker, the Workplace Innovation Platform, helps to speed up custom app development, right down to the smallest detail, including design styles. The user interface has a huge impact on user experience. A well-designed interface generally equates to a positive experience. Developers must ensure that they use appropriate and consistent fonts, sizes, colors, images, layouts, and so forth within their applications. They can simply accomplish this by creating custom styles for the apps they design.

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Within the FileMaker Platform, developers can easily customize names for various development elements such as variables, fields, tables and scripts. Many developers create their own naming convention – a systematic way of naming items in order to do their work more efficiently. We FileMaker developers talk a lot about how to name table occurrences and fields, but styles might be one of FileMaker's best-kept secrets.

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