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CS200 Assignment 11 – FileMaker Advanced Due Monday April 13th, 2020, 11:59 pm No late days can be applied to this assignment

Files CampWaterLooLooLoo.fmp12: this file contains three tables named Employees, Weeks, & Schedule.

CampWaterLooLooLoo Demo.fmp12: This file shows you how your finished file will look and perform. The layouts you are creating do not need to look exactly like the examples provided. Be as creative as you would like as long as you follow the guidelines of the Non-Designers Design Book.

Assignment Objectives

• To further enhance your ability to explore new aspects of a familiar application.

• To expand knowledge of FileMaker

• To reinforce database management system knowledge

Assignment Strategy

• The assignment is step by step, it is recommended you complete the questions in order. However, you should still read through the entire assignment first.

• You may also choose to use your own database tables and data to create a similar result.


Question 1 [10%] – Data Before attempting to answer the questions, first read through the entire assignment carefully. Use the CampWaterLooLooLoo Demo.fmp12, it is a sample solution. When you are finished, your assignment should function the same way that the demo does. Understanding the database and the FileMaker functionality you are required to implement is crucial.

a) Rename the CampWaterLooLooLoo.fmp12 file to username_CampWaterLooLooLoo.fmp12, then open the file.

b) Add your information into the Staff Table. c) Create the appropriate relationships between the three tables.


Question 2 [20%] – Layout “Staff Details” In this step you begin work on the first of four layouts that you will be creating, namely Staff Details. As you can see in the Appendix, this layout contains tabs listing three main topics per staff member: Address information, Health information and their summer Schedule. You may choose any theme you would like (keep in mind the Non-Designer’s Design Book concepts and ensure that the theme you choose is easily read). You will save yourself some time later if you take a few minutes as you create your layout to align and space the fields attractively. The contents of each tab can be observed in of the Appendix. a) From the Staff table, create an empty layout named Staff Details. b) Add the labels, fields, and the three tabs as shown (Address, Health and Schedule) c) The Birthdate field must be formatted as Month, Day, Year. d) Provide the Birthdate field with a “drop-down calendar,”. e) In the appropriate table, create a field called End Date that calculates the end date to be the

following Saturday. The beginning of each week is a Monday.

HINT: There are five days between the beginning of the week and the end.

f) In the Schedule tab, create a portal with the relationships you defined in question 1 to fetch the beginning and end dates for each staff member and what they will be paid each week. The Start Date and End Date fields must be formatted as DayOfWeek, Day Month, Year.

g) The Schedule records shown in the portal must be sorted by Week Number. h) Create a field that will calculate the total pay each staff member will make over the summer.

Put this field in an appropriate place on the layout.


Question 2, Part b:


Question 3 [15%] – Find Staff Member To make the Staff Details layout more useful, you will next add a global field and a button at the bottom of the layout that allows a user to select a Staff member from a scrollable list of all Staff Members and then find the corresponding record. a) Create a global text field called WhichStaffMember in the Staff table. b) Add the WhichStaffMember field to the Staff Details layout (as shown below). c) Create a second field that will ‘concatenate’ data to the format below.

115: Ross, Mike 254: Lee, Way 220: Jones, Jason 234: Shrek, Fiona •••

HINT: You will use a calculated field to accomplish this and the result will be text.

d) Format the WhichStaffMember field to be a scrollable list with the values from this new field. When you click on this field, it will show you the list of people showing only their first and last names (as shown to the right).

HINT: You will need a second calculated field for this. Read the Value List dialog box carefully.

e) Create a script named FindStaffMember that will find the record for the staff member specified by the WhichStaffMember global field.

HINT: You may want to place one of the new concatenated fields on the original Staff layout.

f) Add a small rounded button labeled Go! just to the right of the WhichStaffMember field that executes the FindStaffMember script when clicked.

g) Add the label Click on the Staff Member above, select a person then Go.


Question 4 [10%] – Creating a Schedule in the Schedule Table In this step we will create a simple layout to view the staff members who are scheduled each week. We will create scripts to navigate to related layouts a) In the Weeks table, create a layout called Weekly Schedule. Add and format the appropriate

fields and portal as shown in the image in the Appendix. The portal should be sorted by Last Name.

b) Create a script that when a name in the portal is clicked, it will take you to the Staff Details for that staff member.

c) Create a script that will then take us from the Staff Details to the week of work selected (in the Weeks table) from the portal in the Schedule tab.

d) In the Weekly Schedule add a Web Viewer (see below) that will show a map of the location of each week’s camp.


Question 5 (15%) – Summarizing Weekly Pay In this step we will create a layout that will give us the total paid to staff each week and create a graph to display the results. a) Create a new layout in the Schedule table with the Employee ID, the Employee Name, and pay

for that week. Call this layout Pay Summary. b) We will then summarize the information based on each week, showing the total amount

paid each week. c) Create a script that will sort the layout appropriately and place a button on your layout

called Sort.

HINT: The weekly pay is not stored in the Schedule table, in order to create a proper summary, you will need to use a calculated field to store the Weekly Pay before creating the field for the total amount paid.


Question 6 (5%) – Summarizing Weekly Pay Chart In this step we will create a graph to display the results. a) You will now create a chart in FileMaker of the Weekly Pay Summary in a new layout. b) Be sure the x-axis uses the Week Number and Start Date (you may wish to create a

concatenated field for this), the angle of the items is 45°. c) Save the resulting layout as Weekly Pay Summary.


Question 7 [10%]: Creating a Custom Dialog Box

a) Create a button on the Staff Details layout. Label it Add to Schedule. b) Create a custom dialog box that will allow the user to add a Staff member to a particular

week.

• The Cancel button should bring us back to the Staff Details layout and delete the newly created blank record from the Schedule table.

• The OK button should bring you to the Staff Details layout and to the student just added to the schedule.

c) Attach this script to the Add to Schedule button.

HINT: The Show Custom Dialog script step is found in the Miscellaneous list.


Question 8 [10%]: Password Protecting File To protect files from being modified by users, it is possible in FileMaker to create accounts with differing privileges. You will create three different accounts with varying privileges. a) Create a user called CS200Marker, with the password cs200. This user will have full access to

your database. b) Create a user called CS200Observer, with the password test. This user will have read only

access to your database. c) Create a user called CS200Student, with the password final. This user will be able to create

and modify records and value lists and print from the database. There is a default user called Admin. To test your accounts and passwords turn this account off. Be sure to turn it back on at the end of the exam to ensure that we will have access and will be able to mark your assignment. Any changes will need to be verified with a full access username and password.


Bonus: Choose 3 of the following to enhance your database Any of the following can be added to enhance the functionality of your database.

• Create Popovers where data entry will be necessary to give the user better direction. (2 marks)

• Create a layout that would be appropriate for a mobile device. It should have the functionality of one of the layouts we have created in this assignment. (5 marks)

• Create a report in a different table that is summarizing another aspect of the table. (5 marks)

• Create a fourth table called Themes and have a theme for each week with a corresponding craft and game. Incorporate this into your Schedule. (You will need to create the data). (5 marks)

• Add a photo to the background of a layout. (2 marks)

• Create a runtime solution to allow your “app” to be used on a machine that doesn’t have FileMaker. https://fmhelp.filemaker.com/help/16/fmp/en/index.html#page/FMP_Help/runtime.html (5 marks)

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