FileMaker Pro 6 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide [Paperback]

Cynthia L. Baron (Author), Daniel Peck (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321162196 | ISBN-13: 978-0321162199 | Publication Date: December 30, 2002

Feel as if you've done all that you can do with FileMaker? FileMaker Pro 6 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide will help you do more. It's the most efficient way for smart, creative, busy professionals like yourself to learn how to build custom databases using scripts and templates, and to share and manage information with your colleagues in the next cubicle, over an intranet, or on the Web.

Updated to include all of the new features in FileMaker 6, FileMaker Pro 6 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide covers advanced techniques for working with digital photos, taking advantage of the program's new XML support, using advanced querying features, and working with the program's improved style sheet management tools to design Web pages even faster and easier than before. This handy guide combines a visual approach with straightforward, step-by-step instructions, concise explanations of database techniques, and task-based learning. Taking the highly accessible instructional format of the popular QuickStart Guides to a more advanced level, the book guides readers through all the intricacies and new features of this top-selling database application.

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Feel as if you've done all that you can do with FileMaker? FileMaker Pro 6 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide will help you do more. It's the most efficient way for smart, creative, busy professionals like yourself to learn how to build custom databases using scripts and templates, and to share and manage information with your colleagues in the next cubicle, over an intranet, or on the Web.

Updated to include all of the new features in FileMaker 6, FileMaker Pro 6 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide covers advanced techniques for working with digital photos, taking advantage of the program's new XML support, using advanced querying features, and working with the program's improved style sheet management tools to design Web pages even faster and easier than before. This handy guide combines a visual approach with straightforward, step-by-step instructions, concise explanations of database techniques, and task-based learning. Taking the highly accessible instructional format of the popular QuickStart Guides to a more advanced level, the book guides readers through all the intricacies and new features of this top-selling database application.

About the Author

Cynthia L. Baron is the author of Creating a Digital Portfolio and the co-author of The Little Digital Camera Book and Windows for Mac Users. A designer and typographer, Baron teaches computer-related design courses at Northeastern University in Boston. As technical director of computer graphics, she also manages several networked computer labs and is one of the founding members of the university's Multimedia Studies program. Dan Peck has been using FileMaker Pro since its first release to create contact and mailing-list management for the graphic design industry and non-profit community, permissions systems for publishers, and other customized business applications. His clients include Encyclopedia Britannica, Wine Spectator, Lippincott & Margulies, The Performing Arts Center of New Jersey, New Directions Publishing, and Living Traditions, Inc. He is also the co-author of The Little Digital Camera Book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 488 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press (December 30, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321162196
• ISBN-13: 978-0321162199
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,463,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Reference, September 6, 2004

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Sherry O'Neal-Hancock (Davis, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FileMaker Pro 6 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)

Wow!
After reading the last review, I thought I should add a slightly different opinion.

I have FileMaker Pro Advanced (Visual Quickstart) in both version 5 & 6. (And I am eagerly awaiting for Version 7 to come out.) I do FileMaker Development for a living, so I might have a slightly different perspective. I have always found these Visual QuickStart books to be very helpful and I currently have FileMaker Pro 6 Advanced on my desk next to my computer. If you could look at my copy you would see it full of stickies noting some of the areas I frequently look up.

This book has been invaluable to me as a reference. I can tell you honestly that I have never read it cover to cover. I just look at the great index in the back and it usually points me to the areas I need to look up. I have been designing FileMaker databases for 10 years and I still found lots of new and helpful information in this book. I still consider it a "MUST" for anyone who does FileMaker database design.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars FileMaker Pro 6 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Q, October 18, 2004

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T. O. Ziebold (St. Petersburg FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FileMaker Pro 6 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)

Don't waste your money on this one. Although titled "Advanced" it assumes the reader is a total idiot and absolutely unfamiliar with FileMaker. Steps are spelled out so painfully click by click that it is impossible to follow what is being explained. The screen shots are too small to be legible. A real waste of money and printing paper.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Only Somewhat Helpful in Mastering FileMaker, July 15, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: FileMaker Pro 6 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)

I've purchased numerous Peachpit Visual Quickbooks. Most of them are excellent. This one, however, is deficient is some respects. The most glaring problem is the puny size of the screen shots--you need a magnifying glass to see them! Also, the book is not coherent; it starts off with a fine concept for a school course/student/instructor database, but then doesn't work with this example throughout the book. There are no sample files on CD or diskette or on a Web site that I can find. The only saving grace is that the price of the book is reasonable, and you may pick up a few useful tips. Let's hope the version for FileMaker 7 is better.