Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Other Digital Version | xxv United States |
the link to the download for work files downloads an older version (or so it appears from the title): Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Jul 13, 2014 | Jul 31, 2014 |
Page NA NA |
The Files links for the Chapters don't work for Chapters 9 and 10. |
Anonymous | Jul 16, 2014 | Jul 31, 2014 | |
ePub |
United States |
The file that is supposed to have all the sample files for all the chapters has only one file and there is no such thing as a .fm13 file as stated on the downloads page: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Larry Schunk | Jul 17, 2014 | Jul 31, 2014 |
Printed, PDF, ePub |
United States |
At Location 614 of 22974 the note box at the top says: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Larry Schunk | Jul 19, 2014 | Aug 08, 2014 |
Printed | There are no PDF files (that are referred to in the printed edition) available from the downloads. Could you please post them on to the downloads either separately or as a single file. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Dec 30, 2014 | May 29, 2015 | |
X http://www.oreilly.com/pub/missingmanuals/fmp13mm |
On the following page, you have given a link to Microsoft's Visio but see the same link for SmartDraw, OmniGraffle and ConceptDraw as well. Just a few moments with a good text editor and it will be sorted out. Thank you for a great series of books, BTW! Note from the Author or Editor: |
Dickon R Thompson | Aug 31, 2015 | ||
Printed | Page 85 United Kingdom |
it says to insert pdf file that came with download - have been all through download files and the only files included in the download are fm files - there are no other files types in the download unless you open the completed exercise file and choose to export cell contents! kind of defeats the object of the exercises! Note from the Author or Editor: |
Allen Jennings | Oct 21, 2014 | May 29, 2015 |
Printed, PDF | Page 112 Warning |
Missing space after full stop (period). Note from the Author or Editor: |
Philippe F. Lorre | Sep 01, 2014 | May 29, 2015 |
Printed | Page 150 Second paragraph under no.2 |
Last line above the second note should be corrected to "you must reimport the file for it to work": i,e, remove the words "the file" after "must". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Colin G.F. Brockie | Oct 10, 2014 | May 29, 2015 |
Printed | Page 194 Last bullet item in list at bottom of page (Timeslips::Job ID to Jobs::Job ID) |
This is not an error in the printing of the book but a discrepancy between the name of a table and a field in the Missing CD fmp12 files from Chapter 5 That is the names between the book and the file are different. Note from the Author or Editor: |
bill.allen@us.thalesgroup.com | Apr 16, 2015 | May 29, 2015 |
Printed | Page 295 Figure 7-33 |
At the beginning of the text after FIGURE 7-33 Note from the Author or Editor: |
Jean-Marc Proulx | Oct 19, 2014 | May 29, 2015 |
Printed | Page 311 Last paragraph |
Refers to the "Number Formatting Layout" - there is no layout named this - closest looking one is: "Data Formatting Layout" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Allen Jennings | Nov 01, 2014 | May 29, 2015 |
Printed | Page 345 Last paragraph |
"Navigate to the Slide Control layout" in People.fmp12 - there is no layout by this name nor any that look like the example to work with! Note from the Author or Editor: |
Allen Jennings | Nov 03, 2014 | May 29, 2015 |
Printed | Page 346 instruction 6 |
(this is instructions for working with the missing Slide Control layout) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Allen Jennings | Nov 03, 2014 | May 29, 2015 |
Printed | Page 353 Fourth callout from left of Figure 9-3 |
The current callout says, "Contest pop-up" but I believe the intent is "Context pop-up" where the word "contest" is incorrect. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Bill Allen | Apr 22, 2015 | May 29, 2015 |