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| Scriptology: Filemaker Pro Demystified | 
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| Authors: Matthew Petrowsky, John M. Osborne
Publisher: Iso Production Inc
Category: Book
Used (6) from $17.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 706035
Media: Paperback
Pages: 477
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.8 x 1
ISBN: 0966087607
EAN: 9780966087604
ASIN: 0966087607
Publication Date: May 1998
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Product Description
The most comprehensive FileMaker Pro book ever written. Scriptology is a combination book and CD ROM covering FileMaker Pro 3.0 and 4.0 including scripting, calculations, relationships and interface design. Both products stand alone but together they create the most complete FileMaker training product. The CD ROM contains over 200 technique files that demonstrate with a FileMaker file how to implement techniques the experts use. There are also 12 reference files with information like cross-platform considerations, a graphics library, undocumented keyboard commands, FileMaker error codes, calculation functions and much more. The best thing about Scriptology is that it does not reiterate what the FileMaker manual covers. Rather, it is designed to take you to the next level of FileMaking without alienating the novice.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
Nothing else about FileMaker comes near August 14, 2002
I'm developing FileMaker applications since 1988. No other book paid for itself in a shorter period of time. I advice everybody who is serious with FileMaker to buy this collection of technique files you find in the accompaigning CD. The first FileMaker book I didn't feel cheated.
Scriptology August 1, 2001
A MUST for any and all Filemaker developer. Much more than a simple 'how to' book. Gets to the heart of how to create solutions with FileMaker Pro.
Excellent!!!!!!!! April 25, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the perfect book to have on hand once you get past the stage of learning how to create layouts and relationships. All the other books seem to brush over scripting quickly or make the assumption that the reader somehow instinctively knows what a vested If statement, loop, or set field is, when each might be used in a script and why. For weeks I understood none of this. After an evening with this book it's finally starting to all come together. This book explains everything very clearly and intelligently, is extremely well organized and I believe perhaps the best computer book I've ever purchased. I, too, was afraid I might regret paying ..., but I have no regrets at all (and I certainly have no affiliation with the author). Two thumbs way up!
Great For "Getting to the Next Level" With FileMaker Pro December 6, 2000
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
When I first started doing database development back in 1995, I searched long and hard for a good book that'd teach me all about many of the "hard to get your head around" features of FileMaker Pro such as advanced scripting, understanding calculation formulas, dealing with related data and portals, and how to build killer user interfaces. At the time, there were no good books (to my knowledge). Later, after I'd finished my first subcontracting gig as a FileMaker developer and started my own company, I stumbled across Scriptology. I don't even remember where I found it (it was some unlikely place like a mall bookstore or something.)I have to say that the book helped a great deal in my efforts to become a professional Filemaker developer, an advanced scripter, and a careful database planner/architect. I had already learned many of the techniques illuminated in the book by the by...from colleagues or by surfing the Web, but never before had all the greatest tips and techniques been collected in one place. Enter Scriptology. One point, though. While I'm sure John and Matt are putting together a new edition as we speak, the book is dated in some respects (it doesn't cover FileMaker 5's new features). It also doesn't cover some very advanced FileMaker topics such as ODBC connectivity, Web development, or the use of plugins. For these reasons, the book seems pricy, but it'll still add a great deal to any developer's FileMaker database-building arsenal.
by far the best filemaker pro book out October 29, 2000
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
After using a customized filemaker pro solution for two years at work, which the company had outgrown, I decided to start from scratch and create my own. I have purchased several filemaker books over the past few months and this is the only one which supplemented the filemaker pro manual. It says it covers Filemaker Pro 3.0 and 4.0 but everything applies to Filemaker Pro 5.0 also. Absolutely every technique I was trying to do was described in detail here. This book explains some of the workaround techniques that are not instantly built in to Filemaker but are possible with a little work. The supplemental CD has each technique as a seperate database file making it easy to analyze and adapt to your own database. Filemaker Pro is much easier to use than Access and superior when creating both an interface and printed reports, especially graphic intensive reports such as catalogs. Read the Filemaker Pro manual, then buy this book. The high price of the book is completely covered in the fact that it is so comprehensive and covers advanced techniques in such easy to understand language. I got a lot of ideas for my own databases from reading this book and was highly impressed by such detailed content. If you are deciding between Visual Quickstart's Filemaker Pro (it only covers what is covered in the Filemaker manual), Filemaker Pro Bible (hardly comprehensive enough to be called a bible), Automating Filemaker Pro (more theory and description than how to automate it), and Scriptology, ONLY buy Scriptology. It will save you a lot of time and money (unless you are stupid like me and buy all the other books first).
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