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4. Click OK.
You are returned to the Send Mail dialog box, where you continue setting email options (step 4
of
Sending one email message or Sending multiple email messages).
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Importing data into FileMaker Pro
When you import data, you’re bringing data from another source (usually a file) into an existing
FileMaker Pro file. If you want to create a new FileMaker Pro file from another file format, see
Converting a data file to a new FileMaker Pro file.
FileMaker Pro can import many different file formats. For a list of file formats that FileMaker Pro
supports, see
Supported import/export file formats.
If FileMaker Pro does not support the format of a particular application, you may still be able to
convert the data by exporting data from that application in a format that FileMaker
Pro does support.
For example, FileMaker
Pro does not import Microsoft Access files, but you can export the data from
Microsoft Access to a format that FileMaker
Pro does support, and then import that file.
The source file does not need to have the same number of fields in the same order as the target file.
During the import process, you can arrange the target fields so that the source data imports into the
correct fields, as well as skip fields that you don’t want to import.
When you import data into an existing FileMaker Pro file, you can:
• add new records from the source file
• update records with information from the source file
• update matching records with information from the source file
Important Some of the above options can overwrite existing data in your file. See Methods of
importing data into an existing file.
Notes
• You can import data from any field type into any compatible field except calculation and
summary fields. You can only import into container fields if you're importing from another
Authentication Keep the default None (to require no login authentication on the SMTP
server), or choose Plain Password (for no password encryption) or
Cram-MD5 (for password encryption).
User Name (Available if you choose Plain Password or Cram-MD5 authentication.)
Enter a user ID to authenticate the user on the SMTP server. Users must
enter the correct name and password to send mail on this server. (For
information about criteria for user names, see
Tips for creating account
names and passwords.)
Password (Available if you choose Plain Password or Cram-MD5 authentication.)
Enter a password to authenticate the user on the SMTP server. Users must
enter the correct name and password to send mail on this server. (For
information about criteria for passwords, see
Tips for creating account
names and passwords.)
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