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| Learn FileMaker Pro 7 (Wordware Library for FileMaker) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jonathan Stars
Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 698273
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 550
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 2
ISBN: 1556220987
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7565
UPC: 050826036950
EAN: 9781556220982
ASIN: 1556220987
Publication Date: July 25, 2004
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Product Description
FileMaker Pro 7 is a radical update to this award winning database program. Essential not only to beginners but also intermediate users and professionals needing to get up to speed with all the changes, this book covers all of it.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Ok for beginning but not for using as reference manual ... August 18, 2005
The author takes you by the hand from the beginning of the book to the very end. Sometimes he stops and start discussing about some trivial facts, e.g "Why it is better to sort a contact list by last name rather than by first name ...".
Well, I didn't really appreciate the book because you can hardly use it as a handbook wich you can refer to in the phase of devlopping an application.
The book is good to begin vhen you bearly don't know what is a database and how to operate a soft like File Maker. But for more curious or for more advanced users I'm afraid it's no the book to have.
 Doesn't Do Well With an Learner Who Has Never Used Filemaker... June 28, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I found this book spotty in its development.
As another reviewer wrote, you'll need to buy a magnifying glass to see the computer screen images in this book-No Joke!
 Review form a Hong Kong Guy June 9, 2005
I just brought your book this morning.
I have the FM7 Bible, Visual Guide one and the big yellow one and some other FM book. This is the best out of them.
The Big yellow one written by Schwartz is good for a rookies to start make a simple phone list template. But, it is too much explanation,no real tips, you know. Making a Phone book is all you learn from this big book.....
The 24 hours FM book is rubbish. This may be the first book published on the market about FM7. I brought it with high expectation but it turn out only some dry manuel.
The FM Bible by QUE is also filled with theory but little demo. I can say it give a good example of lookup and relationship. But it is simple not economic to read 350 page to learn this skill.
The Visual Quickpro is the second best,I could say. It divided FM into many tiny parts for you to digest. The worst thing is --- there is no DEMO for you to practise. Hey, how can you grasp the idea of "One-to-Many Relationship" by 2 or 3 snapshots?
One funny thing to share. At first, I consider johnthan stars book is simply rubbish when I am FM7 rookies. It flip and scan the book and got the impression that it is a theory book because of the absence of snapshot. After reading the above FM books, I brought this book because I read a webbog called Filemaker Fever which recommended it. So, I take the risk and it is worth.
Let's take some example. Every chapter have the demo for you to download. It has also Author tips and many other extra FM template. The best thing is that you can learn the useful things with the most direct language. Before I read this book, I never learn what is Drag-and-Drop. I never know the how to really use "Replace Command' to make renew serial no. Some practical tips like you are better to use g to name the gobal field and pf,fk to label key field.
But there is also room to improve. It is much better to have more coverage of script because this section should be the main focus for many users. I urge Johanathan to write another book which focus on relationship and script. I will buy it surely.
In sum, don't believe me. I know many professional writers boost their book. Go and flip this book. Try to read some sub-title and you will know Johnathan explain things quick and to the point.
Tutorial at it's best January 6, 2005
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is the best Computer tutotial book that I ever bought, and I buy quite a few. This is the kind of book you read & work with from cover to cover and come back to all the time.
Better for filemaker 6 November 10, 2004
This book did a far better job of explaining FileMaker 6 than FileMaker 7.
The book cover states "Level: Introductory to advanced", but as far as Version 7 is concerned, it is little more than an introductory primer.
In many cases it just ignored the great leaps forward of the program, or, (far too often) just referred the reader to the help files (as reported by another reviewer) rather than giving examples or explaining the concept.
Examples are:-
1. The let statement enabling users to create variables in a function; users referred to the help files.
2. Recursive calculatuions and scripting; simply ignored.
3. Pull through relationships.
Despite its shortcomings as a version 7 I found the book an admirable reference to Version 6.
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