FileMaker Audit Log

Creating an Audit Log in FileMaker

Created by: John Mark Osborne
FileMaker Pro Expert

What Will I Learn?

• How to create an audit log in FileMaker
• Scripting
• Calculations
• Set Field: Push and Pull
• Auto-Enter Calculations
• Housekeeping fields
• Calculated field tracking
• Scripted field tracking
• New window techniques
• Set Variable
• Support for multiple audited tables
• Abstraction
• fmDataGuard plug-in
• Roll-Back
• Roll-Forward
• Migrating data from a single field to a table

Requirements

• Students should be at or close to an intermediate level of FileMaker programming including familiarity with layout mode, scripting, relational design and calculations
• The course is taught using FileMaker 17 but can be taken by any with FileMaker 13 or later

Target audience

• Students will learn how to design a complete solution from the ground up including layout design, scripting, calculations and relational design
• This is an intermediate/advanced course with some beginner and some expert material