Firestarter Blue Belt

Enables you to master some advanced concepts in how to use Firefly (usually after you've got some experience of building real-life Sparks)

Capturing user details and firing events (8 minutes)
start tutorial (5.5 MB) | download spark (7 KB)

This tutorial shows you how to get user address information as well as firing events (e.g. sending e-mails).

Creating database generated lists (24 minutes)
start tutorial (11.7 MB) | download spark (8 KB) | download spreadsheet (7 KB)

This tutorial walks you through the use of choice filtered lists to generate user options from a database.

Data lookups and filtered lists (21 minutes)
start tutorial (16.7 MB) | download spark (9 KB) | download spreadsheet (8 KB)

This tutorial shows you how to look up data from a database and/or present data from a database as a dynamic report.

Required Reading

Please use our reference manual to read up and learn about the following

Defining filters
Questions, choices, catalogues and choice filter lists
Data sources, filtered lists and choice filtered lists
Variables, formulae, resources, constants, decisions and allocators

Reference Manuals

We'll keep adding to the manual so it complements the tutorials. It gives full details of all the Firefly functions, so you can dip in and out whenever you need to.

• Designer 5.0 Reference Manual (PDF)
• Web Server 5.0 Reference Manual (PDF)