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FileMaker Pro is great at a lot of things, but it doesn't have robust support for time-based visualizations (if you've ever had to build your own month-view calendar layout, you understand). Many creative professionals want time-tracking software to keep track of billable hours on projects. Creating a data entry interface for this sort of thing is not too tough, but doing meaningful reporting on the data can be tricky. Fortunately, the Web Viewer opens up a whole new world for developers by letting us render HTML on a FileMaker Pro layout. In this article, you'll find out how to use the Web Viewer with Timeline (a DHTML-based AJAXy widget) to render time-based event data.
Technical editor Jonathan Stark is an author and instructor who specializes in FileMaker/PHP Web applications for creative professionals. Past clients include Staples, Turner Broadcasting, and Ambrosi (now Schawk). He has spoken at the FileMaker Developers Conference, has had numerous articles published in FileMaker Advisor and php|architect magazines, and is the author of the book Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9 available from SAMS Publishing. Jonathan is reluctant to admit that he began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80. http://jonathanstark.com
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