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| Creating a Database in FileMaker Pro 8: Visual QuickProject Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Schwartz
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 625110
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.7 x 0.3
ISBN: 0321414837
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7565
EAN: 9780321414830
ASIN: 0321414837
Publication Date: December 8, 2005
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Product Description
If you want to make a great-looking, practical database fast but don't want to get bogged down with the details, then you need a Visual QuickProject Guide!
If you've never created a database before, the task can be daunting. Recognizing that you don't necessarily want or need to know about every FileMaker Pro 8 feature, this low-priced, compact guide is the quickest route to creating a functional, organized database. Whether you're a small business owner looking for a better way to track inventory and invoices, someone just looking for a streamlined way to keep track of your contacts, or your boss simply needs a a project database, this book covers the FileMaker Pro 8 basics with full-color illustrations and step-by-step instructions to help you get your project done quickly. The guide also includes a companion Web site with downloadable graphic buttons, custom forms and templates, and more.
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 Creating (not using) a database September 6, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The good: This book was easy to follow. There was enough repetition that I got the hang of how to do things. I know what's available in FileMaker Pro.
The bad: It was tedious to create the database (and I'm a patient person). The book told me mechanically *what* to do (i.e., what steps to follow to create the database), but it didn't explain the big picture of what I was creating or why I was doing certain things thus I'm not walking away with an understanding of what I did. (Maybe I got lost in the tedium of creating the database.)
The ugly: I was shocked that it ended where it did. I was expecting a part on actually *using* the database so that I could get a feel for what a portal is and how it works, see what the scripts do, and so on. Nope. None of that. It left me to fill in records and try it for myself. That doesn't sound so bad except that the context is an investment database, and I don't know enough about money market accounts, stock and mutual funds, CDs, and savings bonds to really do that. I will play around with it some more, but I am disappointed.
Filemaker Pro 8 Visual QuickProject Guide June 12, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Get a regular FilePro 8 book. This is cumbersome, and expensive for what it does for you.
 FMPRO8Createdbfile March 17, 2006
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
Easy to follow, excellent examples. Shows how to create the relational files and the portals.
Excellent starter for first time users March 7, 2006
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is an excellent, concise, self paced beginners tutorial on Filemaker 8. It gets you started immediately in the development of a database (investment minder) covering the main features of the program. It is not a detailed tutorial covering all the aspects of Filemaker 8. Still you will come away with a good enough understanding of the program's basics to create a database of your own design. My only real criticism of the book is that I would have liked to have had more illustrations showing what instructions should actually look like once entered on the computer screen. This is especially the case in the section dealing with scripts. However this is a minor issue in an otherwise excellent book. I would highly recommend the book to anyone wanting to learn the basics of Filemaker 8.
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