Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.74 EAN: 9780596514136 ISBN: 0596514131 Label: O'Reilly Media Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 799 Publication Date: August 02, 2007 Publisher: O'Reilly Media Sales Rank: 10978 Studio: O'Reilly Media
Product DescriptionFileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual is the clear, thorough and accessible guide to the latest version of this popular desktop database program. FileMaker Pro lets you do almost anything with the information you give it. You can print corporate reports, plan your retirement, or run a small country -- if you know what you're doing. This book helps non-technical folks like you get in, get your database built, and get the results you need. Pronto.
The new edition gives novices and experienced users the scoop on versions 8.5 and 9. It offers complete coverage of timesaving new features such as the Quick Start screen that lets you open or a create a database in a snap, the handy 'save to' buttons for making Excel documents or PDFs, the multiple level Undo and Redo commands let you step backwards through your typing tasks, and much more. With FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual, you can:
Get your first database running in minutes and perform basic tasks right away.
Catalog people, processes and things with streamlined data entry and sorting tools.
Learn to use layout tools to organize the appearance of your database.
Use your data to generate reports, correspondence and other documents with ease.
Create, connect, and manage multiple tables and set up complex relationships that show you just the data you need.
Crunch numbers, search text, or pin down dates and times with dozens of built-in formulas.
Automate repetitive tasks with FileMaker Pro 9's easy-to-learn scripting language.
Protect your database with passwords and set up privileges to determine what others can do once they gain entry.
Outfit your database for the Web and import and export data to other formats.
Each chapter in the book contains 'living examples' -- downloadable tutorials that help you learn how to build a database by actually doing it. You also get plenty of sound, objective advice that lets you know which features are really useful, and which ones you'll barely touch. To make the most of FileMaker Pro 9, you need the book that should have been in the box.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Excellent introduction to the Filemaker Software!
FileMaker Pro 9 is one of the most intuitive and user-friendly database programs available. But, as with all database programs, it is capable of so much that it is practically impossible for the typical user to deduce all of its functionality simply by searching the program's multiple menus.
Enter FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual - another edition of the Missing Manual series designed to enlighten non-technical persons on highly technical subjects.
Rating: - Filemaker Pro 9 the missing manual
This is a thorough review of how to set up various database features of the Filemaker system. Like many such manuals I have had in the past, I found myself reading and re-reading instructions feeling there must be clearer, better ways to instruct someone on the various procedures of this fine database software. Nevertheless this reader got over some difficult spots in setting up his database and gives the book a positive review...
Rating: - Mixed Bag
Pros:
- The writing style is accessible and easy to understand
- You can download the database examples used in the book.
- It's the best FileMaker Pro 9 book I've seen.
Cons:
- Like a lot of computer books out there, this one is unnecessarily wordy. The publisher said, "I need a 750-page book," and the author complied.
-And you gotta read ALL of it (especially beginners), because important information is distributed like buried treasure. ... Read More
Rating: - A Smart, Affordable Investment for any FileMaker User or Developer
One of the first things that I noticed about "FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual" is it's size. It's a big, heavy book, clocking in at 778 pages. But there is a good reason for this: This book covers a lot -- and I mean a LOT -- of ground. As such, it has something for everyone. From newcomers to veteran developers, you're bound to find something new here. So don't let it's size scare you away!
Written by Geoff Coffey (of Six Fried Rice fame) and Susan Prosser (president of dbhq, a FileMaker ... Read More
Rating: - FileMaker lifesaver!
It's been years since I used Filemaker, and then only as a database user...not the creator of the application. So when I set out to create a new FM database solution for a small private school I needed help! The tutorial provided with Filemaker9 is VERY basic and the application's "Help" tool is very thin. (I finally stopped clicking on it when search after search yielded no real help at all.)
I picked up a copy of the Missing Manual hoping it would save my neck. I found that I already knew the ... Read More
- Excellent introduction to the Filemaker Software!
- Filemaker Pro 9 the missing manual 
- A Smart, Affordable Investment for any FileMaker User or Developer
