User manual
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introducing FileMaker Pro
- Chapter 2 Using databases
- About database fields and records
- Opening files
- Opening multiple windows per file
- Closing windows and files
- Saving files
- About modes
- Viewing records
- Adding and duplicating records
- Deleting records
- Entering data
- Finding records
- Making a find request
- Performing quick finds based on data in one field
- Finding text and characters
- Finding numbers, dates, times, and timestamps
- Finding ranges of information
- Finding data in related fields
- Finding empty or non-empty fields
- Finding duplicate values
- Finding records that match multiple criteria
- Finding records except those matching criteria
- Saving find requests
- Deleting and reverting requests
- Viewing, repeating, or changing the last find
- Hiding records from a found set and viewing hidden records
- Finding and replacing data
- Sorting records
- Previewing and printing databases
- Automating tasks with scripts
- Backing up database files
- Setting preferences
- Chapter 3 Creating databases
- Planning a database
- Creating a FileMaker Pro file
- Defining database fields
- Using supplemental fields
- Setting options for fields
- Defining database tables
- Creating layouts and reports
- Setting up a layout to print records in columns
- Working with objects on a layout
- Working with fields on a layout
- Working with parts on a layout
- Chapter 4 Working with related tables and files
- Chapter 5 Sharing and exchanging data
- Sharing databases on a network
- Importing and exporting data
- Saving and sending data in other formats
- Sending email messages based on record data
- Supported import/export file formats
- ODBC and JDBC
- Methods of importing data into an existing file
- About adding records
- About updating existing records
- About updating matching records
- About the importing process
- Converting a data file to a new FileMaker Pro file
- About the exporting process
- Working with external data sources
- Publishing databases on the web
- Chapter 6 Protecting databases with accounts and privilege sets
- Chapter 7 Converting databases from FileMaker Pro 6 and earlier
- Chapter 8 Security measures
- Index
Index | 207
File references. See data sources
File sharing, enabling 157
FileMaker Mobile
privileges for 178, 189
FileMaker Pro
documentation information 9
file format 164
product overview 13
versions 193
FileMaker Pro Advanced 12
FileMaker Pro format 164
FileMaker Server 156, 172, 188
privileges for 178, 191
Filename extension, fp7 24
Files
accounts 176
backing up 68
cloning 27
closing 26
converting 193
copying 26
creating 78
described 21
duplicating 27
exporting to 169
opening 23
opening across platforms 24
planning 71
privilege sets 176
protecting 175
remote 23
saving 26
shared 182
on web 172
templates, described 78
Find mode, described 28
Find requests
See also Finding records
adding new 52
broadening criteria 52
deleting 55
described 40
editing 55
mixing find and omit 54
multiple 52, 53
narrowing criteria 51
operators in 41, 48
order of 54
repeating 55
reverting 55
Finding and replacing field values 56
Finding records
See also Find requests, Quick finds
adding new request 52
all records 42
Boolean numbers 46
described 40
duplicate records 51
empty or non-empty fields 51
exact values 45
excluding records 53
invalid values 46
logical AND searches 51
logical OR searches 52
multiple criteria 51
omitting records 54
order of requests 54
partial or variable text 43
quick finds in Browse mode 42
ranges of information 48
related fields and records 49
showing all records 42
symbols 44
today’s date 46
Footers, described 130
Form letters 120
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