Meeting Topic
In light of FileMaker's recent announcement... http://www.filemakertrial.com/go/ ...we'll take half the meeting to discuss FileMaker Go for iPhone and iPad. We'll pass around a few examples in case you haven't gotten your hands on it yet, and we'll talk about what we've learned so far in this very exciting first week. Matt Navarre and John Sindelar will co-presnet this section after Matt's presentation on FileMaker Search techniques, and we'll open it up to general discussion and Q&A. If you have a solution already running on Go, bring it along to share. This is a game-changer. Come see why. We live in the age of Google, and work in the land of FileMaker. User expectations of how search works in a database has changed over the years, and as developers, we have both followed and led that shift. We'll discuss some different search techniques that have been successful, and some that no longer are. We'll look at Google search, and learn how close we can get to that within a FileMaker system. To cover that ground, our discussion will include: • Standardizing on single-field search • The new QuickFind feature in FileMaker Pro 11 • Anatomy of a Google search • Other tools such as Bing and Wolfram Alpha • Commercial products such as fmSearchResults and ScriptMaster • Different methods of ranking results • Multiple-datatype search • Mini-search tools to replace value lists Matt Navarre is a regular speaker at DevCon, FBA Platinum, host of the FileMaker talk podcast, and author of fmSearchResults.