John Mark is also well known as the co-author of the wildly popular Scriptology book and CD ROM. The Database Pros web site has been on the internet for 20 years and gets over 35,000 hits a day by offering free FileMaker Pro tips, tricks and techniques. John Mark is best known as the author of the popular FileMaker Pro web site Database Pros. John also acted as a liaison between the technical support department and the FileMaker development team, reporting bugs, attending product meetings and acting as resource for the development team. John was the Technical Lead for FileMaker, serving as an escalation path for other technical support representatives and writing a large portion of TechInfo (now called Knowledgebase), their technical information reference. He earned his FileMaker Pro degree working on the frontlines of Claris technical support. Examples of the invoice file are provided at every stage of the creation process so the user can easily review one section without starting from the beginning.John Mark Osborne has been working with FileMaker Pro for over 20 years.
These practical "how to" courses by FileMaker expert John Mark Osborne start from beginner level and use a single invoicing example to demonstrate FileMaker Pro 7, 8, 8.5, 9, 10, 11 and 12 features and techniques including: Ultimate Find, saving a found set of records for future retrieval, saving find criteria for future use, text parsing to create features, making new requests easier for users, parsing web form generated emails, five methods for deleting duplicates, recursive phone filter, creating preferences in a single-user and multi-user scenario, web-like back and forward buttons, conditional buttons, custom form letters, changing text attributes with scripts, script triggers and many more techniques with an emphasis on adaptive scripting and calculations. Three courses, lower price! FileMaker Pro is powerful enough to handle most database jobs yet easy enough to create simple solutions in minutes.