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170 | Sharing and exchanging data
5. In the Specify Field Order for Export dialog box, select how you want
FileMaker
Pro to export the data.
6. If necessary, choose the character set you want the exported file to use.
7. Select whether or not to apply the current layout’s formatting to the
exported data.
For more information about exporting data, see Help.
Working with external data sources
You can define data sources in a FileMaker Pro file to access data from:
1 other FileMaker Pro files
1 SQL databases that use ODBC technology for sharing information
When you define data sources in FileMaker Pro files, current data from
external databases is displayed in your files. You can use FileMaker
Pro to add,
edit, delete, search, and sort data in the external files.
To export Choose
A field on the current
layout
Current Layout (LayoutName) from the table list, then double-click
a field in the list
A field in the current
layout’s table
Current Table (TableName) from the table list, then double-click a
field in the list
Select fields
from this list
Select whether
or not to apply
formatting
FileMaker Pro exports these fieldsTo export related fields,
select the related table
from the list
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