FileMaker Pro is powerful, easy to use ... or both

FileMaker Pro is a wonderful database application that's easy to use and powerful in the right hands.

Our FileMaker resources include:

• OfficeChamp, the ready-to-use database that will increase professionalism and productivity in your office.
• Recap of the latest FileMaker versions -- what's available and what we recommend
• Useful, free files that you can download
• Valuable links to other FileMaker Pro sites

Anyone with basic computer skills can install FileMaker and within hours create and learn to use a database -- entering data, searching, sorting and printing reports. With experience, training and/or the aid of a FileMaker professional, complex relational databases can be created to manage nearly any aspect of an organization.

The best source of FileMaker professionals is the FileMaker Solutions Alliance, a support organization run by Claris.

The inherent advantages of FileMaker are magnified because it will simultaneously run on: Windows 95 Windows NT Windows 3.x Macintosh

We've created a separate page of independent reviews of FileMaker Pro.

Yes, users on all of these platforms, if networked, can share a single file at the same time.

Or, a FileMaker file can be shared over the Internet using TCP/IP. Open the file on an Internet-connected computer and anyone in the world who has FileMaker, the IP address and the password for the file can enter, edit and retrieve data, subject to password restrictions you can apply.

FileMaker is a web server. Internet users can open, browse, search and edit files with a web browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer.

Well, enough hype. This isn't the FileMaker Pro web site. Let FileMaker toot its own horn.

Versions

We recommend that all users should be on the current shipping version of FileMaker, which is 5.0v3.

We typically delay upgrading to new versions -- and we did that with FileMaker 5, as well. But it's now well worth upgrading to stay in the technological mainstream and to take advantage of version 5's features.

We are very positive about version 5.5, which is being released in mid-May 2001, but we aren't ready to recommend it for installation.

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Downloadable Files

These are some FileMaker files that could be useful to those who develop in FileMaker Pro.

All files require FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows or for Macintosh.

FREE DOWNLOADS	Additional Information	Windows (.zip format)	Macintosh (.sea format)
OfficeChamp is our flagship product to make your office -- from SOHO to executive suite -- more productive and more professional. Work like a winner!	OfficeChamp Home Page The OfficeChamp Home Page explains the difference between the Full and Lite versions.	FULL VERSION champ.zip LITE VERSION champlit.zip	FULL VERSION OfficeChamp.sea.hqx LITE VERSION OfficeChampLite.sea.hqx
CityStateZip Splitter separates information in a single field ("Knoxville, TN 37916") into three fields ("Knoxville", "TN" and "37916"). [Version 3.0 is for FileMaker 5.]	CityStateZip Splitter Read Me	cszsplit.zip (102K)	CSZSplit.sea.hqx (270K)
Name Splitter separates names in one field ("Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.") into separate fields -- "Dr.", "Martin", "Luther", "King" and "Jr.". [Version 1.4 is for FileMaker 5.]	Name Splitter Read Me	namsplit.zip (86K)	NamSplit.sea.hqx (251K)
We have a list of Zip Codes in FileMaker Pro format. Allows you to enter a Zip Code in another file and automatically fill in the city and state. Includes documentation for creating lookups in FileMaker Pro. [Version 1.0]		zips.zip (1.1 mb)	Zips.sea.hqx (1.3 mb)

Valuable Links

 

• FileMaker is a FileMaker, Inc. product.
• You can subscribe to a FileMaker Pro ListServ managed by BlueWorld Communications.
• ISOeZine produces a web site and an electronic magazine about FileMaker Pro.
• John Mark Osborne is a highly respected member of the FileMaker Pro community, and his Database Pros web site is worth a visit for quick tips and more.

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• FileVille -- The FileMaker Pro User Group on the Web with a directory of FileMaker solutions and utilities.
• Advanced Database Systems provides free examples including portal sorting and graphical checkboxes. Large related links section with a constantly updated news area. Home of the "Daily Planner" solution.
• Chris Moyer -- FileMaker Guru
• The FileMaker Master Link page

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• Steven Blackwell -- FileMaker expert, especially on FileMaker-AppleScript issues
• Kevin Frank -- Microcomputer wizard with an especially good page of Links
• LeSaux Media Services -- Specializing in FileMaker Pro database solutions and custom services. Good links and auxiliary information. Many templates available.
• Quacker Software sells FileGroove Deluxe graphics to jazz up your databases and custom design services for web pages and FileMaker Pro databases.