FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual, O’Reilly Media / Pogue Press
Make information work for you with the FileMaker Pro 11 desktop database and FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual. This book 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.
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 Download eBook Free »
FileMaker Pro 10 Bible provides information that grows with you no matter what your level when you start. Topics range from the general (how databases fit into real life and your business needs; comparisons with other database development tools; a broad discussion of integration with existing systems and software) through the building-blocks of FileMaker solutions, and on up to state-of-the-art advice on concepts of optimization, modularization, innovative and sophisticated user-interface design, dynamic elements, logic, cutting-edge calculations, publishing your database to the Web, and integrating tightly with SQL databases via “ESS”. The book also includes the special developer tools available in FileMaker Pro Advanced, and covers topics too oft skipped over in other books on the market – backup how-to’s and strategies, must-read information about good database husbandry and file recovery, and so on. Much of the information in the book is documented nowhere else. This is the one must-have FileMaker book!Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
From the Back Cover
If you want to learn FileMaker Pro, you need this book
Before you start a FileMaker Pro project, make sure you have this detailed how-to from renowned FileMaker expert Ray Cologon. He draws upon years of experience to provide pages of solutions, techniques, and instruction you won’t find anywhere else. Discover what’s new in FileMaker Pro 10, learn efficient coding, and create industrial-strength databases with automation, scripting, security, and more. From the fundamentals to full-scale development, this is the FileMaker book you need to succeed.
Design dynamic layouts for screen and print
Learn data modeling and examine data arrays
Work with tables and SQL data sources, and migrate legacy data
Manage lists, calculate summary data, and document your code
Master scripting and the FileMaker Scripting Environment
Apply security and maintain the integrity of your data
Create custom functions and use standards-based approaches
Employ third-party tools and plug-ins to extend FileMaker Pro’s reach Download eBook Free »
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