More than confusing to the person in the warehouse who has no interest in database design, though, is that you can end up with a layout so busy that it confuses you.
You need them to record all of that, so you ask for it and you layout the questions so that it's easy and fast for them to enter it all and move on.įileMaker Pro is very good for creating and adjusting layouts like this yet you can still end up in knots because you have to much on the screen. Perhaps you've got codes for the shelf this stuff is on. Maybe you have a tick box for saying which warehouse. You design a layout that lets them enter the name of the stock item, maybe from a list, plus a box for them to enter the quantity. So they're recording that you've got self-sealing stem bolts, and at the same time they're recording that you've got a hundred of them. For a stock-taking solution, you've got some man or woman walking around your warehouses saying what's in there. What's new, and most significant, in the way that you create these solutions starts with the tiniest of things in how you lay out a database. While that's the app that users on desktops will use when they're entering information into your databases, it's also where you work when you're creating what are actually called "solutions." That warehouse example, for instance, would be said to be using a stock-taking solution. The same fixes and improvements have been made to the online version that people can use in a web browser, and in FileMaker Cloud where the company hosts your databases for you.Įverything really revolves around FileMaker Pro 16 for Mac and Windows, though. Similarly, there are nice new touches across FileMaker's versions for servers where you host a database that you can access remotely.
So, if you run your stocktaking on FileMaker Pro then it will know when you're in which warehouse. That means your database can present you with information based on where you are. It's sold now as a whole platform where every bit of it both online and off sees improvements over each iteration.įor instance, databases you make to run on iOS and FileMaker Go can now automatically detect iBeacons. People considering it for the first time may not see anything utterly compelling in the new features, but each improvement adds to an already world-class application.įileMaker Pro is more than an application, really. Yet FileMaker Pro 16 does make significant improvements.Įxisting users can and should just go right ahead and update. The FileMaker Pro developers have firmly settled into an annual update cycle, and 2017's edition is not a major overhaul.
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