Can you recommend a forms based database like Filemaker, MS Access, or OoO Base, but lightweight? [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2008 - 3 answers

My mother-in-law is a horse breeder and wants to create a web site that shows the lineage of a particular breed of horses. She has some of the data in a Filemaker 5.5 database, but needs to expand it greatly and put it online. How can we go about doing this, and/or hiring someone to do it? [more inside]
posted on Mar 26, 2008 - 3 answers

I'd like to find an application that would help two assistants keep track of incoming phone calls (and their status) for a small office of 10 employees, without having to commit to an expensive database solution like Filemaker. [more inside]
posted on Feb 25, 2008 - 7 answers

Filemaker question: How do I combine two records into one? [more inside]
posted on Dec 19, 2007 - 5 answers

Can I, should I, make a career change into database design? [more inside]
posted on Sep 25, 2007 - 16 answers

FilemakerFilter: I need some database help, because I am a n00b. My FIRST robotics team is creating a database of teams at our regional event, for scouting... [more inside]
posted on Feb 7, 2007 - 8 answers

How can I automagically parse the oddly-formatted text from the body of an email so that Filemaker can use it? [more inside]
posted on Dec 17, 2006 - 12 answers

I'm making a contact database for the first time in Filemaker. I've got a field where I'm entering useful tags. I want to make a front end for this system in the form of a tag cloud. Since I'm so new to Filemaker, I don't know if this is useful or possible -- all I know is Google's never heard of such a thing. [more inside]
posted on Feb 2, 2006 - 3 answers

Does anyone know of a freeware or shareware database program that can read and edit .fp5 files? I know they're proprietary to filemaker.
posted on Sep 15, 2004 - 5 answers

I am a freelance journalist, and a document freak. But also I am very chaotic. I would like to use some sort of database to keep track of the articles, documents, web snippets, references, quotes, URLs, bibliography that I use in my work. But I have many questions and doubts [more].

Should I use a database that it is linked to the external documents (which I keep nonetheless), or should I go for a database that has all of these documents embedded? I work in a Windows / OSX environment (desktop PC and a G4 Powerbook), so this keeps me from going all the way to Access (which I hate) or Filemaker (which I don’t know very well). I’ve been thinking of keeping a MySQL database server, maybe powered with a modification of something like Everything, and accessing the data via web browser, but I fear that the thing wouldn’t escalate well. (Keep in mind that I am not a programmer, I can install Movable Type or GeekLog in my webserver, and tinker a little with php files changing little things here and there, although I have friends that can help me)

I don’t know if there are built-in solutions for what I need, or if you can point me to a database template (for Access or FileMaker) already built for journalist research. The fact is that I have tons of information and documents (some of them already stuffed in CD and DVD backups), but I have a hard time keeping track of everything, and very often it is very difficult for me to retrieve information that I know I have saved but I can’t tell where it is.
posted on May 11, 2004 - 9 answers