Learn FileMaker Pro 9 (Wordware Library for FileMaker)

Learn FileMaker Pro 9 (Wordware Library for FileMaker)
by Jonathan Stars

Learn FileMaker Pro 9 (Wordware Library for FileMaker)
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Author: Jonathan Stars
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-25
ISBN: 1598220462
Number of pages: 550
Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.

Book Reviews of Learn FileMaker Pro 9 (Wordware Library for FileMaker)

Book Review: Beginners Only?
Summary: 3 Stars

This book seems to present everything in a tutorial project. Unless you follow the project along it is difficult to just look something up and fix a small problem.

I am a new Filemaker user and consider myself to be an intermediate database user. On the other hand I found Filemaker to be very intuitive and found I had a fairly complex database up and running in a few hours. I bought this book hoping to be able to solve a few small problems as well any new ones that arose. I found it very difficult to do so. I could not situate myself inside the project presented and figure out what I needed. While everything seemed very clearly written and easy to understand, a topic was spread out over so many pages and situated in a large project that it was too much work to figure out what turned out to be simple problems.

If you are trying to learn Filemaker and willing to go through the tutorials then I would look at the other reviews. It seems clearly written and easy to understand to me. I would also add the caveat that I have only tried to look up 5 or 6 things. I ended up reading what seemed like a hundred pages and could not find my answers. Perhaps with more work I could make the book work but I found other resources that work better for my learning style. I would give this book one star for what I needed and my learning style but I wish I would have had a book like this when I learned Access and SQL Server. For a beginner to databases and Filemaker my initial take is this book is deserving of 5 stars.

Summary of Learn FileMaker Pro 9 (Wordware Library for FileMaker)

With this new version of the software, FileMaker Pro expands the dramatically new and efficient approach to database management that gives users exceptional flexibility. This book explores the features of the product--both new and old--and identifies situations in which they might be applicable, distilling the complexity into a logical hands-on approach. Includes The multiple-tables-per-file architecture, which gives users ease of development and speed; How to work with the enhanced Web Viewer; The auto re-size and conditional formatting of layout objects; How to adapt one script to many purposes, cutting development time/expense; How to use the updated Tab Control and Tooltips features; A special section on the Anchor-Buoy method of database development; How to use the Quick Find, Auto-Complete and Visual Spell Checker features; How to use and append PDFs, and work with the Excel document Maker with Fast Send Email feature; and How to harness the power of the new External SQL Data Source tools.

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