Hi James. I use Filemaker. I find it pretty easy to learn and use, and there's a passionate support community. Scripting can be both very powerful and simple. I use it to run our reporting system... it's load-tolerant and easily networkable (even without using Filemaker Server). It's simple to put databases online too. <br>
<br>With Filemaker Advanced you can create executable versions of the database that can be distributed and run without users having to install Filemaker itself.<br><br>Transitioning from Access will involve a few 'cultural' changes (e.g. the concept of found and omitted records, calculated fields being defined along with the other fields, layouts, portals to show related records from other tables).<br>
<br>It's available on the Software 4 Education program (state govt schools) for $99 per licence (and you only need to buy one licence for each concurrent user, not one licence per PC installation.)<br><br>Oh, and it now does graphs.<br>
<br>Regards<br>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 December 2011 10:15, James Heath <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jamesaheath@yahoo.com.au">jamesaheath@yahoo.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><span></span> </div><div><span>cheers</span></div><div><span>James Heath</span></div><div><span>Galen Catholic College</span></div><div><span>Wangaratta</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
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