The document discusses database analysis, its benefits, and specifically the BaseElements tool for FileMaker Pro developers. It highlights how database analysis can identify design, naming, performance issues, and unused objects, ultimately aiding developers in optimizing their solutions. BaseElements is presented as a comprehensive tool that offers detailed insights into database elements, helping to preemptively address bugs and improve efficiency.

1. Overview
➢What is Database Analysis
➢Benefits of Database Analysis
➢How to do a DB Code Analysis in FileMaker
➢Use of BaseElements tool in FileMaker Database Analysis

2. What is Database Analysis
➢Data Analysis
➢Database Code Analysis

3. Benefits of Database Analysis
● You can eliminate potential design and naming problems and
avoid performance pitfalls by analyzing your database code.
● The concepts are very similar to performing static analysis to
detect and correct defects in managed code.
● You configure which analysis rules you want to apply to your
database code, analyze the code, and then correct or ignore the
issues that you identify.
● Before you can analyze your database code, you must first
import your database schema into a database project.

4. Benefits of Database Analysis
By performing static analysis, you can identify problems that fall
into the following categories:
➢Design Issues
➢Naming Issues
➢Performance Issues
➢Unused database objects that needs to be cleaned up

5. Database Analysis Tools
There are several tools available for FileMaker Database
Analysis. Some of them are:
● BaseElements
● Inspector Pro
● MetadataMagic
● Brushfire
We will discuss about BaseElements tool in detail.

6. What is BaseElements?
● BaseElements is a tool to assist FileMaker Pro developers, and
make development easier and efficient.
● It is a FileMaker Developer Tool for analyzing FileMaker Pro
solutions.
● It is a database for databases. It imports the Database Design
Report (DDR) generated from FileMaker Pro to give you a
complete cross-reference of every element in your solution.
From fields to script steps, layouts to custom functions.
Everything is included, everything is cross-referenced.

7. It's a database for your database.
● Have you ever wanted to see list of all of the layouts in your
entire solution?
● Want to find all the scripts that do ImportRecords[] script steps?
● Want to find every button on a layout that's calling a particular
script, and list all of the layouts?
● Want to know what are the plug-ins used in the application?
● Want to know the places where a Global Variable is used in your
solution?

8. Know Your Solution
● If you've ever taken over someone else's solution, and don't
known where to start, or work on a system that is too big to keep
in your head all at once, BaseElements is the answer. It knows
everything about your solution without you having to know.
● BaseElements gives you the ability to see all of the elements in
your database solution, and will tell you what is being used and
where and what is broken or not being used at all.
● BaseElements can make your development easier by identifying
problems before they cause issues by alerting you to broken
elements in your solution.

9. Know Your Solution
● It can speed up your solution by allowing you to analyze and
remove elements that are no longer being used, hence reduce
your database file size, minimize your effort on maintaining
sections in the solution that don't need to be maintained.
● Plus you can use BaseElements to check where your solution
is being slow and why by tracing fields and scripts through their
dependencies and optimizing them for the best outcomes.

10. Preempt the bug reports.
● BaseElements lists all of the items in your system that have errors
or that are unreferenced. So you can know in advance when you
introduce that next new version, that it isn't full of bugs, and that it's
not overloaded with wasted space.
● BaseElements has 3 Important Abbreviations.
● Unreferenced (U)
● Error Count
● Warning Count
Error
Warning
Unreferenced

11. Preempt the bug reports.
● Unreferenced Check Box
It has has 3 states:
● Unchecked - The element is in use by other elements in the
solution.
● Checked - The element is completely unreferenced.
● Dash - The item is unreferenced, but is either showing in a menu
( for scripts or layouts ) or your solution is using Indirection and
may be referring to this element by name.

12. Preempt the bug reports.
● Error Count
The Error Count field is a number, and when zero the field is empty.
You can always tell when you're looking at the error field as it's
highlighted in red and bold.
● Warning Count
The Warning Count field operates in much the same way as Errors,
but refers to the no. of warnings on this object. If there is any
warning then this field value is highlighted in orange.

13. BaseElements Analysis Reports
● BaseElements is designed to work within the data structure of
your actual data, so the reports available are deliberately setup
for functions you can't get directly from the data. There are
four reports as of version 3.x and 4.0:
● Comparison Report
● Consolidation Report
● Error and Unreferenced Report
● FileMaker Go Compatibility Report

14. Generate DDR report for BaseElement
Select
DDR
Save it in a folder Save DDR as XML
format

15. How do I import the DDR?

16. After Import Your DDR

17. Individual File Detail Report

18. Script Details

19. ● It's a standard set of FileMaker Pro databases, that
imports the Database Design Report. Nothing is locked
down, you have everything except development access
to the files. So you can do as many searches and put up
as many new windows as you want.
● In short, there is nothing to stop you getting the most
out of your own solutions.
So what do you get?

20. ● It is the most accurate, feature packed and simple to
use system around.
● It's ability to link every element with each other.
● Providing a Smart Find feature to limit your search
found set within the last viewed Analysis Report.
● It allows you to have many different solutions or many
different versions of the one solution or even both, all
within the one copy of BE and to only be working on a
single Analysis at a time.
Why BaseElements?

21. ● It's super fast at importing your solution and searching
within your recent Analysis.
● It allows you to analyze and know about the Plug-ins,
variables used in the solution.
● And because it doesn't dictate how you should use the
system, it's designed to give maximum productivity to
it's target audience : FileMaker Pro Developers.
Why BaseElements?

22. ● Developers may try BaseElements completely unlocked
for 30 days using the registration code available on the
website.
● Goya Pty Ltd: http://www.goya.com.au
● BaseElements: http://www.goya.com.au/baseelements
● Download BaseElements:
http://www.goya.com.au/download
● Purchase BaseElements:
http://www.goya.com.au/purchase
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