(and that is a con in my book, that I do not get to use FileMaker on a daily basis). So unfortunately I do not use Filemaker at my new job, but I remember it fondly from my old job. Only dislike I have, is that I currently do not have the time to delve into some serious database-design and programming, but that is not actually a problem with the software, but stress-levels at work. I could write for hours about the fantastic scripting system. While making logic statements is also possible in SQL, it is far from easy, and getting data from a field in SQL? You need a lot of commands in Filemaker, you just select the relevant field or can even make a logic function that selects the correct field. Simple IF/THEN/ELSE commands is a godsend, when you need to create a logic for database functions. It makes it easy to add many more functions to a database, while requiring a lot less experience with programming than e.g. The most powerful part of FileMaker is its scripting platform. Quick and easy communication with the translators without having to look up their phone numbers all the time. Also wrote an SMS/texting script (which used Envaya SMS on an android phone), allowing easy contact with the translators from within the Project Management database. There were many of such special functions that was offloaded to Filemaker scripts. Thus reducing several hours of (manual) labor per project to mere seconds. I wrote a parser in Filemaker that parsed the Trados Project data file, which contained all the data anyway. This was previously a manual process and calculation which took more than an hour to gather and process. Importing Trados project translation data the project management database, allowing the invoicing, translator payments and project data to be easily calculated. A lot of functions were built into the databases to offload a lot of manual tasks to the scripts. The database(s) handles everything from employees, customers, timesheets, project management, invoicing, subletting workstations (they also ran a small office hotel). At my old job at a translation company, I built an entire 'company management system' from scratch over the course of 10 years.

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