In this Issue:

• DevCon '08: Unlock the
   Secrets

• New FileMaker Customer Story

• More from spreadsheets with
   FileMaker

• Bento – Meet New Users

• Windows users: moving to
   Vista?

• Tips and Tricks

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Customer Story

DevCon 2008: Unlock the Secrets

This year's FileMaker Developer Conference is loaded with keys to successful solution development. The Top 5 things you won't want to miss are:

1. FileMaker Futures (Opening Session Demos)
2. Under the Hood with FileMaker Engineers
3. NEW! FileMaker Training Series workshops (additional fee required)
4. Integration Track (PHP, Web Services, External Data Sources, etc.)
5. The Visionary Bar at the Product Showcase    

Make plans to join us in Phoenix, AZ, 13th - 17th July.

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Excel Accelerator Kit

The Excel Accelerator Kit from FileMaker makes it easy to unleash the information stored in your Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets, and make it infinitely more valuable to you and your business.

Leveraging the power of Excel with the power of FileMaker can provide you with tools to vastly simplify your information management and reporting. And, it's easy to do.

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Call for Bento Users

Following our call for entries of Bento users last month, we have had some fascinating examples sent in.

Veronica, The Novelist
One such example is that of Veronica, a novelist who writes crime novels. She has written a series of thirteen books with a number of recurring characters and places. She now uses Bento to log the plots and characters for each book so she can view them as individual cards. Organisation through Bento has helped her to find discrepancies – "No! Her husband's name is Sam, not Tom."  Bother!

Please send any examples of how Bento has helped you to bento@octopuscomms.net. Looking for inspiration for the kinds of things that can be organised with Bento?

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Organised Mind Saves Time

This month we are carrying out the 'Organised Mind Saves Time' survey looking at how much time people spend searching for documents, unnecessarily creating new ones when templates already exist and the number of information systems they have to access in a day. We look forward to reporting the results back to you soon.

 
New Web Seminars
for TechNet
Members Only

Join the FileMaker Technical Network and get access to in-depth web seminars for members only! As a member, you'll be able to participate in this exciting NEW series focusing on FileMaker Server, hosted by FileMaker System Engineers:

• View On-Demand: Server Configuration Best Practices
   for FileMaker Server
• 18th June 2008: Optimising Windows Operating Systems
   for FileMaker Server
• 27th August 2008: Windows Monitoring to Maintain a
   Healthy FileMaker Server

To view any of these events, and many more exclusive benefits, join FileMaker TechNet today – only £49+VAT per year.

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Windows users: moving to Vista?
Now's the time to Upgrade to FileMaker 9

Microsoft has announced it will discontinue the sales of Windows XP officially on 30th June 2008. If you are planning to move to Windows Vista, there's never been a better time to upgrade to FileMaker 9 which runs on Windows Vista. Also, you can take advantage of our special upgrade offer with an instant rebate!

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Tips and Tricks

Solve a Data Importing Conundrum

Lee Lukehart, Soliant Consulting Director of Training
I have a data importing puzzle. I'm the sales coordinator for my company's five field sales reps. The first week of every month, each rep sends me his prior month's call log as a text file to import it into our archive database. It's easy enough to manually import these text files, but some months they just won't import correctly. I'll wait a couple days, then the files will import just fine. Even stranger – if one file doesn't work, all five don't work. The problem is that all the data for each record will go into only the first field, not the six different fields we track. The other imports I do that week all work fine. Is it something I'm doing?

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Made for FileMaker

MMScript 1.1 from Comm-Unity Networking Systems
The MMScript 1.1 plug-in allows you to create Script Events that call FileMaker Pro Scripts in your Database.
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By Appointment v1.0.7 from Life $uccess Institute
Life $uccess Institute is pleased to announce that By Appointment
v1.0.7 is now shipping.
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AutoSender 2.5 from myFMbutler
myFMbutler AutoSender is a messaging solution robot that allows you
to automatically send emails from your FileMaker solutions, based on
the status of a FileMaker field.
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Developer Jobs in the UK

The following companies currently have vacancies for FileMaker developers.

   - Linear Blue
   - Quay Software
   - DataTherapy

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Architects, planners and engineers must cope with huge volumes of business-critical information in every single project they undertake. The management of this data is very admin-intensive, costly and takes focus away from the job in hand.

i2i has developed software using FileMaker Pro 9 to enable them to record project information.

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Awards

FileMaker has been nominated for two Macworld Awards; Best Consumer Software (Bento) and Best Productivity Software (FileMaker Pro).

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Learn how to use your Address Book information in Bento, make changes, and then see those changes in both Bento and Address Book.

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