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This hands-on, friendly guide shows you how to harness FileMaker's power to make your information work for you. With a few mouse clicks, the FileMaker Pro 11 database helps you create and print corporate reports, manage a mailing list, or run your entire business. FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual helps you get started, build your database, and produce results, whether you're running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It's a thorough, accessible guide for new, non-technical users, as well as those with more experience.
- Start up: Get your first database up and running in minutes
- Catalog your data: Organize contacts, to-do items, and product information with speedy data-entry and sorting tools
- Create professional documents: Publish reports, invoices, and more, with ease
- Add visual power and clarity: Create colorful charts to illustrate and summarize your data
- Harness processing power: Crunch numbers and search text with dozens of built-in formulas
- Learn advanced topics: Explore the high-level features of FileMaker Pro Advanced and FileMaker Server
About the Author
Susan Prosser is a reformed journalist who's stopped trying to bring information to the people and now helps them manage the data they already have. She is a FileMaker Certified Developer and has developed FileMaker databases for 12 years, and also trains and writes curricula for other developers.
Stuart Gripman is the founder of Crooked Arm Corp, a full-service FileMaker Pro consulting and development firm based in Berkeley, California. A FileMaker Certified Developer, he has written for both Macworld and MacLife.
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review: Filemaker Pro 11: the missing manual, July 19 2010
By lwakus "lwakus" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual (Paperback)
Conflict of interest disclosure: O'Reilly Media provided me a free copy of FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual for the purposes of the review.Last month I tried out Filemaker Pro 11 (the program) and had a two-word summary: way cool. This month's review of Filemaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual has an even more succinct one-word summary: oh, as in "oh, that's how that works" or "oh, that's what that means".
Stuart and Gripman know how to write. And they understand Filemaker and they understand that not every user was born speaking database-ese. Databases think and operate in ways that normal people don't; much as I like Filemaker Pro and much as I like to think I know what I'm doing, it can be a tricky program - and apparently I've learned to do many tasks the hard way. The manual is well-written, in clear, plain English. It's great at explaining what Filemaker is doing under the hood and is even humorous, without being silly. And the authors also commiserate about Filemaker's idosyncracies.
At 891 pages, the manual is huge and heavy and, mercifully, well -organized. The table of contents and index make it easy to navigate. But unlearning bad habits may require reading more than a few chunks of text or several chapters.
The Missing Manual also has a missing CD; instead of including a CD with the book, the authors post practice files online, along with errata and corrections. The authors are updating the site; they've added at least one file since I first downloaded them. But I received an error message when I tried to post a minor error (there's a clunky non-sentence on page 92).
My only other criticism is an oblique reference to file care and maintenance. Prosser and Gripman refer to "appropriate care and maintenance" in order to head off injury. But, although they explain what file recovery entails, they don't offer clear instructions as to what steps users should take for ongoing maintenance. I want to know how to avoid damaging my databases.
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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Maybe It's Just Me, Aug 14 2010
By S. Burman "canyonlight" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual (Paperback)
I'm sorry. Maybe it's just me. But I find the book mysterious and hard to follow. Perhaps the book would be easier to understand if I already understood FileMaker. The book starts off telling me how to find things apparently not realizing that I have no idea what I am supposed to be looking for. Some of the exercises simply don't work (The Format Painter on page 125). It seems that some apparently basic database subjects are covered after more esoteric concepts are introduced. The book would be more helpful to me if simple ideas were introduced first, and then developed. Very frustrating.
28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential resource for using FileMaker Pro, Jun 13 2010
By Jerry Saperstein - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual (Paperback)
FileMaker Pro is considered to be the easiest to use of relational databases - and it is. It is also one of the most capable and powerful databases - and if you want to access that power, it is one of the most complex.That's why this book has 869 pages of text, including 7 pages of error codes. You'll never see most of these error codes, but the sheer number of them should give you an idea of just how complex FileMaker Pro can be.
This book truly lives up to the premise of the missing manuals series: "the book that should have been in the box".
FileMaker Pro provide s extensive online help facility, but it is often terse and lacking in examples.
The FileMaker Pro missing manual, on the other hand, is pleasantly verbose and has many examples. Moreover, it provides a necessary education in database theory and design as well. There's a wonderful introduction, for example, on using Boolean values.
FileMaker Pro has many unique features, such as repeating fields and portals. The book explains them all. Of special interest to users beyond the beginner stage are the chapters on scripting within FileMaker Pro.
It is not an exaggeration to say that "FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual" is an entire course on using FileMaker Pro. The authors have just the right writing style - not too sparse, not too talkative. Every page is packed with useful information not just on FileMaker, but on creating databases as well.
You can use this book as an A-to-Z training course or as a reference. It's a great - if not mandatory - investment for your FileMaker library.
Jerry
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