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This is not a simple task given the complexity of the evaluation it does. Clean, good use of white space and it is easy to follow. It even has a nice progression of the items being evaluated. You are walked through your first import, prompting you to name the version of your import, the client and the import run. On the topic of ease of use, BaseElements sets the bar pretty high here. They have reports to help the developer consolidate files, compare analysis of multiple versions and even evaluate the top call statistics from your FileMaker server. The reporting is a whole feature that I didn’t expect. I would like to see the elements searched documented a little more obviously, since you don’t actually have access to run script debugger on the BaseElements file. You enter a search criteria in the quick-find box and it returns a result of all occurrences of that term across all concepts in your system. The search works flawlessly in their system.
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There is a YouTube video here on its use if you are interested in how it works. It was a great tool for enabling a simple-to-use, multi-table find into a solution. FMSearchResults was sold by SeedCode for a while although now it seems to be gone from their site. We talked about how nice it is for the tool to be in FileMaker already, but using FMSearchResults is a great idea. Let me give you the rundown of what the tool reported for our test system:Īs far as features go, BaseElements, as all these tools do, has a wide array of features, but the three that stood out to us were: We are expecting a lot of errors and are getting a lot, which is a good test of a tool like this. He noted the readme was helpful, and that the reports gave a pretty detailed explanation of the system.įor our testing we are running a client’s system through that they developed in house, converting, upgrading and improving from FileMaker 3 on to FileMaker 16. I do not mind the wait if it brings an accurate report of all the errors. It only took around 2 minutes to generate the report. … Overall I think BaseElements is useful.
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We are having a junior developer at our company run each tool through it’s paces, and these were his thoughts:īaseElements looks very user friendly and it is. That means you get layout access and can change or link the database in most ways you would want, allowing a developer to deliver custom reports with their own labeling and logos if desired. The whole thing is just a FileMaker database. We stated in a previous post that we would be reviewing the FileMaker analysis tools. Today we have the first post in that series, a review of the tool, BaseElements.īaseElements is made by the folks at Goya who have been doing amazing things in FileMaker for years. They refer to BaseElements as “The database for your database” and that is one of the strongest selling point of their tool.