Mike Ahern - Dynamic Reporting
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Dynamic Reporting
Presenter: Mike Ahern, IT Solutions Consulting, Inc (http://www.itsolutions-inc.com/filemaker/).
In this presentation, we will go over a reporting tool that uses some dynamic fields and sorts to empower the end user to generate many reports using very few layouts.
Normally, we build reports that use one layout for each type of report we want to see. This results in several layouts that are all very similar, differing mostly on the fields being sorted on, or the order of the fields being sorted on, with different color or font choices to determine most to least important pieces of data.
We will demonstrate a method we developed for a report wizard that allows the end user to have multiple choices for searching and a dynamically selectable sorting tool to allow them to sort that data in different ways, while still maintaining that most to least criteria of font or color choices.
About the Presenter
Mike Ahern is a Filemaker Developer for IT Solutions. He has been using and developing Filemaker since Filemaker 4, primarily as an in-house developer in the graphics arts industry, but also with a brief stint as a Full time developer in the Medical Coding Profession. He is a FileMaker 13 Certified Developer. He has also spent the better part of the past 20 years as Macintosh systems support and systems admin both as field service and then in house before becoming a full-time developer in 2013.
About the Philadelphia FileMaker User Group
The Philadelphia FileMaker User Group was founded in 2004 as an initiative by FileMaker Business Alliance Platinum member IT Solutions Consulting. The group’s goal is to provide an open forum for FileMaker developers and those interested in FileMaker to meet, brainstorm and network.
We hold meetings the 4th Tuesday of every month at 6PM, in the office of IT Solutions Consulting, Inc., at 414 Commerce Drive, Suite 150, Fort Washington PA.
Meetings are open to all, regardless of background and there’s no charge to attend.
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