InBizness Quiz 1.4 Update

InBizness Quiz is a unique learning experience for the FileMaker developer. What you get is access to a quiz library of over 1,600 questions in both a random or targeted quiz session formats. You even get some great choices in how you access your quiz sessions from FileMaker, a web browser (via FileMaker IWP) or via the iPhone (via the Safari browser). So you can take a new quiz just about any time and anywhere.

ABOUT THE RANDOM QUIZ ENVIRONMENT
Random quizzes are a great way to evaluate where you are in your FileMaker knowledge. With each new release we have upped the ante on our random quiz environment. We have eight different options on random quizzes with include five different experience level options.

Here you can see the main access screen for your random quizzes. (click picture to expand)

ABOUT THE TARGETED QUIZ ENVIRONMENT
If you thought that eight different options for random quizzes, you are really going to like having fifteen different options for targeted quizzes. These targeted quizzes are great for any areas in which you feel that you could do better. But it isn’t about the score, it is the process that pays the dividends.

Here you can see our current targeted quiz options. (click picture to expand)

ABOUT YOUR QUIZ QUESTIONS
The questions appear in a classic multiple choice setting and are pretty straight forward. We didn’t spend a lot of effort coming up with trick questions or obtuse situation scenarios.

Here you can see one of the quiz questions. (click picture to expand)

ABOUT YOUR QUIZ RESULTS
After taking the quiz, you will see a scrollable list of the questions you missed. You will see the question ID number, the question, your incorrect answer choice and the final correct answer choice. You can also view your quiz history at any time.

Here you can see the quiz result screen. (click picture to expand)

Here you can see your quiz history so you can measure your results.

Coming Soon InBizness Basic CRM - Yet Another FileMaker CRM Database

Lately, I’ve been creating new databases by harvesting a lot of code from my previous projects. Literally, I’m choosing the “New Database” command from under the File menu, tossing out the default table and pasting in pieces from my other projects. I tend to design with “recycle” in mind but I’m surprising myself these days. This is an InBizness CRM database but has a few different twists to it.

MORE EMPHASIS ON THE ACTIVITY AND ACTIVITY GROUPS
I introduced the Activity Group with InBizness Real Estate but this version is a bit different. First off, an activity group can be assigned to many different modules including Companies, Products, Invoices, Purchases and Staff.

PREFERRED PRODUCTS / PRICES FOR COMPANY RECORDS
Added in an option where you can setup default products (with default pricing) for a company and then quickly invoice from there.

INVOICE BACKORDER LOGIC
The invoice module has a backorder logic where you can create a new invoice based upon what was not shipped from a previous one.

CONSOLIDATED LINE ITEMS TABLE
Not a biggie but I always have a separate table for invoices and purchase orders. In this database, they are combined.

FILEMAKER 10 FEATURES
Lots of small script trigger features including a quicksearch, quick date range and pull down menu field navigation.

Entering In Work Order For An Apartment Unit

A work order is a repair event that may consist of multiple activities and each activity may be assigned to a different staff member. For work orders that reoccur, you may consider creating an activity group for future use. In this set of instructions, we are looking at a one time repair work order for an apartment unit.

The first thing you want to do is to locate the apartment unit the work needs to be done for. The next thing you want to do is click the "Add Work Order" button on the top part of the Unit modules form view.

From here, you can enter in the work order fields until you get to the addition of activities. Each activity can have different start dates, categories and assignments.

WANT TO SEE THE MOVIE?
We did create a quick movie on the topic and you can view it by clicking here!

Getting Started With FileMaker Based InBizness Property Management

The checklist for setting up your copy of InBizness Property Manager for the first time.

STEP 1: Duplicate the copy of the database we provided to you. You will want to keep this copy on hand in case you want to rollback to a pristine version.

STEP 2: Delete the example data. Go to each main module and delete all the records in each one. This will help keep you from getting confused from demo data and your real world data.

STEP 3: Add in your buildings data in the building module. This is important before adding any other data.

STEP 4: From the buildings module, add all the apartment rentals units that belong to that building. You can add rental units that are not linked to a building but that is only recommended for rentals that are the only rental for a building.

STEP 5: Enter in your tenant related information.

STEP 6: Assign each tenant to the appropriate apartment unit. Remember that you can only assign apartment units are not available. So make sure that you have updated your apartment status records to help the unit pick list stay up to date.

STEP 7: Add in your staff members into the staff module. This will be necessary so you can assign activities to them. If they are going to be accessing the database, make sure they have their own database accounts, passwords and access levels set properly.

WANT TO SEE THE MOVIE?
We did create a quick movie on the topic and you can view it by clicking here!

InBizness Property Manager

Seattle Washington - dwaynewright.com is excited to announce the immediate availability of InBizness Property Manager! As with our other InBizness products, when purchased, you can customize InBizness to meet your individual business needs by using FileMaker Pro 10. That means you can add small tweaks to large redesigns for all layouts, relationships, scripts, tables, value lists and security schema.

THE MODULES
InBizness Property Manager is designed to have just the right modules needed to do your property management tasks and these include the tracking of buildings, apartment units, tenants, work orders, activities, rent payments, work orders and more!

For more information regarding InBizness Property Manager, please visit http://www.dwaynewright.com/inbiz/propmgr/index.html

Dwayne Wright
dwaynewright.com
Snohomish, Washington 98296
info@dwaynewright.com