Ted, As an IT trainer, who has found herself helping out with some foundation work, I have found it much easier working with ebase after going through a FileMaker 5.0 training manual. It helps to know how the underlying program works, even if you are not delving "under the hood", but just doing the data entry and mailings. I purchased an instructor's training manual for FileMaker Pro from Corporate Solutions www.corpsol.com. This manual even gives some scripting basics. Hope this helps. Michelle Michelle Vonderhaar Computer Trainer Mount Prospect Public Library Phone: 847-253-5675 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 847-253-0642 -----Original Message----- From: Ted Fickes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 3:23 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [SUPPORT] FileMaker knowledge & training Jackie's question about the FileMaker user manual and/or which 3rd party book would be helpful raises a question I've had for a while. While not absolutely necessary, I think that folks 'getting under the hood' with ebase would have generally more pleasant and more productive experiences if they had a better grounding in how to use FileMaker. You don't need to be a certified FileMaker administrator (if any such thing exists) to add fields but there are a lot of ebase functions really force you to work with FileMaker terminology and interfaces. Does anybody have any experiences or thoughts about this...including disagreeing? Any sense for how much FileMaker training is sufficient for various levels of work with ebase? Where/how folks can get more experience with FileMaker in a more productive way than stumbling through edits to ebase? Any place online with a good FileMaker tutorial or free/cheap training module? Ted Ted Fickes Environmental Law & Policy Center 35 E. Wacker Drive, Suite 1300 Chicago, IL 60601 312-795-3724 312-795-3730 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Midwest Environment Online at http://www.elpc.org
