Resource Scheduling: FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solution

The Resource Scheduling Starter Solution enables you to monitor every resource involved in your activities and events. It's one of the 16 pre-made templates that's available for you to start using for your database requirements. It's fully unlocked so you can view and modify the database tables, relationships, layouts, and scripts.

When you start out FileMaker Pro 12, just click File > New From Starter Solution… and select Resource Scheduling. Type the name you want for the database (in case you'll have multiple of the same database), specify where you want to save it, and click Choose.

You'll be presented a new record where you can begin typing in the schedule name, kind, location and summary. Start Date, End Date, Due, and Days Remaining are all automatically calculated based on the data you enter. The upper left part of the database window shows a summary of all the different resource information, while the lower part provides an entry point for all the different resources used for your schedule. The resources are classified into either People, Equipment, Materials, Locations, and Others.

A Schedule Report button shows you a printable view of all the schedule information, and two buttons beside it save the report as a PDF file, or email the report information to your selected recipient.

Clicking the Schedule List button shows you a list of all records you've created, with an option to sort it by End Date, Schedule, Kind, or Location. You can also import and export item records to any of the file formats supported by FileMaker Pro, or print out the project list.

Aside from the professionally designed templates that look great on the desktop version of FileMaker Pro 12 (for Macintosh or Windows), additional layouts for FileMaker Go 12 for iOS and built-in scripts in the Starter Solution automatically show the best layout based on your mobile device (either iPad or iPhone/iPod Touch). Here's what the iPad layout looks like:

You can work with this starter solution in your iOS device in several ways:

• You can sync it with your iPad or iPhone/iPod Touch using iTunes.
• You can email the file to your iOS device and open it with FileMaker Go 12.
• You can enable FileMaker Network Sharing in FileMaker Pro 12, and open the file remotely using FileMaker Go 12.

Enjoy!