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Summary: Scriptology
Review: 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.
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Summary: Scriptology
Review: 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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Summary: by far the best filemaker pro book out
Review: 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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Summary: SIX stars! If you use Filemaker - buy this book
Review: I have five other books on Filemaker Pro, most are very good, but none comes close to the depth of explanation and immediate practical usefulness of this book & CD set. Even though it is priced above the other books, it is worth every penny. After working with Filemaker in its various incarnations since 1991, I still discovered tons of new techniques. Author John Mark Osborne was the Technical Lead at Claris Corp (now Filemaker Inc.) before leaving and writing this book so you know you are getting first rate information. Matt Petrowsky has been publishing an electronic Filemaker newsletter since 1994 and really knows this stuff inside out.
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Summary: Nothing else about FileMaker comes near
Review: 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.
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Summary: Scriptology - FileMaker Pro 3.0/4.0 Demystified (Windows 3.1
Review: This book is still the #1 tool for serious Filemaker Pro Developers. If anything, it opens the reader up to endless possibilities. The next step after this book is learning to create plug-ins
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Summary: Still the #1
Review: This book is still the #1 tool for serious Filemaker Pro Developers. If anything, it opens the reader up to endless possibilities. The next step after this book is learning to create plug-ins
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