Review: Cleveland Consulting CC Bar Products
Cleveland Consulting, Inc. has brought five templates to market that are worthy of your serious consideration.
Every FileMaker developer has a major time to market considerations when developing a new solution. The result is either coding a complete solution from ground-up, or utilizing and leveraging the strengths of existing templates and products to help the developer make the time to market.
Cleveland Consulting, Inc. has delivered five templates which make adding Calendar, Navigation, Gantt Charts, Help, and Vertical Bars a cinch… and at unbeatable prices!
Additionally, none of the CC Products require any plug-ins. FileMaker Pro 5.x or higher is required.
CC Calendar, CC Gantt, CC Help, and CC Navigation are available in Light and Enhanced versions. The Enhanced version of CC Calendar is available for $74.00. The Enhanced version of CC Gantt is available for $45.00. The Enhanced version of CC Help is available for $89.00. The Enhanced version of CC Navigation is available for $80.00.
CC Vbar is available as a Light version only. Light versions are available free of charge from Cleveland Consulting, Inc.'s web site at http://www.clevelandconsulting.com/.
Both Light and Enhanced versions of the products are fully unlocked.
The main difference between Light and Enhanced versions of the products are that the Enhanced versions provide additional functionality. This will be discussed in each of the following sections.
CC Calendar
CC Calendar adds advanced multi-user calendaring features to your solution.
The Light version consists of a database that can be filtered by user. The Enhanced version adds the ability to show records from up to two related databases containing dates, ability to filter month view by one of two dates per file (for example, start and end dates), ability to jump from month view to related records in related databases.
CC Calendar allows you to add advanced calendaring features to your database solution with minimal work.
CC Gantt
CC Gantt adds the ability to compare related dates of multiple line items in a database in the popular Gantt chart visual format.
The Light version displays charted line item is represented by a single bar, color-coded according to the item's status (choice of one of three statuses). The Enhanced version adds the ability to compare projected vs. actual dates (each line item being represented by two bars), ability to include multiple projects on one chart, ability to filter milestone by Project, Person Responsible, Status and/or Data Range.
CC Gantt allows you to add sophisticated Gantt chart capabilities to your project management (or other) solutions.
CC Help
CC Help adds the ability to deliver help information via online documentation for a solution.
The Light version provides multi-user, searchable, printable help content to any database solution. The Enhanced version adds the ability to link images to help content, and the ability to relate help pages to each other.
CC Help allows you to add sophisticated and media-rich help features to document your database solution.
CC Navigation
CC Navigation provides unparalleled navigation functions for a database system utilizing browser-like buttons and user-specific bookmarks.
The Light version allows navigation between files and layouts using a single dynamic map, control over layout access (outside of FileMaker Pro's Access Privileges), and creation of administration-only layouts and functions. The Enhanced version adds the ability to add browser-like forward and back buttons, and ability to use user-specific bookmarks (capturing a file, layout, and record).
Locking down your solution and adding CC Navigation features provide the necessary balance between security and accessibility to your solution.
CC Vbar
CC Vbar adds the ability to create beautiful 3D vertical bar charts. CC Vbar is currently only available as a Light version. It provides the ability to change bar colors and shapes easily, ability to click in bars to see value at the cursor point, ability to scale chart for any range of data, and ability to chart negative numbers.
CC Vbar allows you to add stunning vertical bar charts to your solutions. While there is a performance hit due to FileMaker Pro's graphics and calculation engine, CC Vbar provides an elegant solution that demonstrates the best way to accomplish adding vertical bar charts sans the use of external plug-ins to your solution.
Conclusion
Cleveland Consulting, Inc. has delivered five templates worthy of your serious consideration.
By far, the coding in CC Products is amongst the cleanest that I have seen. The code is definitely worth study to learn best practices for accomplishing adding Calendar, Gantt, Help, Navigation, and Vertical Bar functionality to FileMaker Pro databases.
Whether you are a developer needing to add multi-user Calendar, Gantt, Help, Navigation, or Vertical Bar functionality to a solution, or you are a new developer wishing to learn how to develop solutions with these advanced features, Cleveland Consulting, Inc.'s CC Products are a one-stop shop for some of the cleanest code to add such functionality to FileMaker Pro databases.
Check out CC Products at http://www.clevelandconsulting.com/. You'll be glad you did!