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Use FileMaker® technologies to create powerful mobile data apps for iPhone®, iPod® touch, and iPad™

Apple’s FileMaker technologies make it easy to create powerful, data-driven apps for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and any mobile device’s web browser. In this book, leading FileMaker and iOS expert Jesse Feiler teaches you all the skills and techniques you’ll need, whether you’re a developer, knowledge worker, or manager.

Feiler thoroughly reviews each strategy for delivering mobile data using FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server, FileMaker Go, and Bento. You’ll learn how mobile data-driven apps are different from traditional desktop-driven apps, and how to create highly usable interfaces for them. Step by step, Feiler demonstrates how to extend existing databases to mobile devices and the web, and how to create and optimize brand-new databases for iPad and iPhone.

This book brings together core principles, practical development techniques, and proven tips and shortcuts. You’ll discover the best ways to incorporate printing, touch interface elements, and location-based features into your apps; integrate data from multiple FileMaker and non-FileMaker sources; and much more.

• Use FileMaker Go apps to access FileMaker databases hosted on FileMaker Server or FileMaker Pro, or databases resident on a mobile device
• Move FileMaker Pro databases, scripts, and layouts to mobile environments Download Now »

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This hands-on, friendly guide shows you how to harness FileMaker’s power to make your information work for you. With a few mouse clicks, FileMaker Pro 11 helps you create and print corporate reports, manage a mailing list, or run your entire business. FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual helps you get started, build your database, and produce results, whether you’re running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It’s a thorough, accessible guide for new, non-technical users, as well as those with more experience.

• Start up: Get your first database up and running in minutes
• Catalog your data: Organize contacts, to-do items, and product information with speedy data-entry and sorting tools
• Create professional documents: Publish reports, invoices, and more, with ease
• Add visual power and clarity: Create colorful charts to illustrate and summarize your data
• Harness processing power: Crunch numbers and search text with dozens of built-in formulas
• Learn advanced topics: Explore the high-level features of FileMaker Pro Advanced and FileMaker Server Download Now »

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The FileMaker Pro 10 desktop database lets you do almost anything with the information you give it — especially with this book as your guide. Clear, thorough, and accessible, FileMaker Pro 10: The Missing Manual helps you get in, build your database, and get the results you need, whether you’re running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It’s the ideal guide for non-technical and experienced folks alike. Each chapter in this fully updated edition covers the latest timesaving features of FileMaker Pro 10, including saved finds and a redesigned toolbar that reveals information and features more clearly than ever. You’ll learn how to import information from the new Bento consumer database (Mac only), write scripts to make your database even easier to use, and send email without leaving FileMaker. With this book, you will:Get your first database running in minutes and perform basic tasks right away Catalog people, processes, and things with streamlined data entry and sorting tools Use your data to generate reports, correspondence, and other documents with ease Create, connect, and manage multiple tables and set up complex relationships that display just the data you need Crunch numbers, search text, or pin down dates and times with dozens of built-in formulas Outfit your database for the Web, and import and export data to other formats

You’ll also get objective advice on which features are really useful, and which aren’t. To make the most of this database, you need FileMaker Pro 10: The Missing Manual — the book that should have been in the box. Download Now »

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FileMaker Pro 10 Bible provides information that grows with you no matter what your level when you start. Topics range from the general (how databases fit into real life and your business needs; comparisons with other database development tools; a broad discussion of integration with existing systems and software) through the building-blocks of FileMaker solutions, and on up to state-of-the-art advice on concepts of optimization, modularization, innovative and sophisticated user-interface design, dynamic elements, logic, cutting-edge calculations, publishing your database to the Web, and integrating tightly with SQL databases via “ESS”. The book also includes the special developer tools available in FileMaker Pro Advanced, and covers topics too oft skipped over in other books on the market — backup how-to’s and strategies, must-read information about good database husbandry and file recovery, and so on. Much of the information in the book is documented nowhere else. This is the one must-have FileMaker book!

From the Back Cover

If you want to learn FileMaker Pro, you need this book

Before you start a FileMaker Pro project, make sure you have this detailed how-to from renowned FileMaker expert Ray Cologon. He draws upon years of experience to provide pages of solutions, techniques, and instruction you won’t find anywhere else. Discover what’s new in FileMaker Pro 10, learn efficient coding, and create industrial-strength databases with automation, scripting, security, and more. From the fundamentals to full-scale development, this is the FileMaker book you need to succeed. Download Now »

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FileMaker Web Publishing: A Complete Guide to Using the API for PHP, offers an unparalleled development strategy for database managers, web designers, and programmers who are interested in getting the most out of FileMaker databases on the web. The book introduces the basics of HTML, cascading style sheets, and PHP, then moves on to specific concepts such as database portals, value lists, and complex navigation systems. Advanced topics include uploading and referencing files within the database and sending dynamically formatted emails. With this book: Learn the fundamentals of working with FileMaker from a web publishing perspective. Understand how to set up and configure FileMaker Server. Create a blog application complete with tables, value lists, navigation links, style sheets, and authentication. Discover debugging methods to solve problems on demand by relying on a few simple tools and a bit of logic.

About the Author
Allyson Olm is the owner of FMWebschool, a professional FileMaker training and development firm, as well as a well-known trainer and developer. She is the lead developer behind the FXForge product line.

Stephen Knight is a FileMaker developer with 10 years of experience creating FileMaker solutions.

Michael Petrov is a programmer and developer responsible for creating a host of web publishing applications with FileMaker. He was the lead developer on the FMStudio web publishing solution from FMWebschool. Download Now »