FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) - Softcover

Hester, Nolan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 020170417X ISBN 13: 9780201704174

Publisher: Peachpit Press, 2000

Synopsis

The author of a FileMaker Pro4 guide shows what's new and praiseworthy about this version of the popular database program. Appendices cover installing and configuring FileMaker, its functions, script commands, and keyboard shortcuts. A companion web site is available. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

Review:

In FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Nolan Hester holds forth on a fantastic database tool. Covering the Windows and Mac OS versions of FileMaker clearly and in equal measure, Hester shows you how to solve database problems large and small. He's particularly in depth on how to use FileMaker's networking features (which allow you to share a database among Windows and Mac users) and Web Companion (which you can use to run the back end of dynamic, searchable Web resources such as catalogs and directories). Scripting and templates get coverage too.

In case you haven't experienced the Visual QuickStart Guide presentation style, you're in for a treat. It's highly graphical, but the designers take care to present many tightly focused images, rather than lots of big full-screen pictures. The idea is that you can read along with Hester's procedures and see the steps illustrated nearby. If you're told to choose options in a dialog box, for example, a picture of the relevant box appears adjacent to the text. It's therefore easy to avoid getting lost. --David Wall

Topics covered: Using FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows and Mac OS, including entering data, searching, sorting, reporting, and printing. Database design gets coverage, including field types, validation, formulas, relational structures, and networking and Web integration.

From the Back Cover:

FileMaker is a popular, flexible, and powerful tool that makes people more productive and saves them hours of grunt work. So is Peachpit's FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide. Whether you're new to FileMaker, upgrading to version 5, or a Web developer looking for a simple way to serve databases, this book will have you up and running in no time.

In the tradition of Peachpit's other Visual QuickStart Guides, FileMaker Pro 5: VQS is loaded with screenshots and clear, concise explanations of critical database publishing tasks. Start with basics like working with records and files, and move on to more advanced tasks such as creating and designing databases. Or, use the handy tabbed format to page straight to the specific topics that interest you, such as printing and networking or Web publishing with FileMaker.

Platform: MAC WIN

About this edition

• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 020170417X
• ISBN 13: 9780201704174
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 334