Functions Reference

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Link
On a web page, text or a graphic which — when you click it — displays an associated web page
or a specific element within a page.
Also, the HTML code that creates a link to another web page or to a specific element within a
page.
List View
Displays records one record at a time in a list format. To select this view, click List View in the
layout bar.
If you don't see the status toolbar, click the status toolbar control button at the bottom of
the document window.
List view layout
A type of Report layout in which fields that you specify appear in columns across the screen or
page in one line. Field names are in the header part and the footer part is blank. (In previous
versions of FileMaker
Pro, a List view layout was a predefined layout type.)
Locked object
An object on a layout that cannot be edited or deleted. To lock or unlock an object, select it in
Layout mode. In the Inspector, click Position, then choose Lock or Unlock in the Arrange &
Align area. If an object is locked, its selection handles dim.
If you don’t see the Inspector, choose View menu > Inspector.
Lookup
A lookup matches records and copies data from a related table into a field in the current table.
After data is copied, it becomes part of the current table (as well as existing in the table it was
copied from). Data copied to a table doesn't automatically change when the values in the related
table change.
Lookup source field
The field in the related table that contains the data you want copied during a lookup.
Lookup target field
The field that you want data copied to during a lookup.
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Many-to-many relationship
A correspondence between data in database tables in which more than one record in the first
table is related to more than one record in another table, and more than one record in that table
is related to more than one record in the first table.
Match field
For relational databases and lookups, a field in a source table and a field in a related table that
contain values you want to use to find matching records. (A match field is sometimes called a
key field or trigger field.) In the relationships graph, match fields appear in italics.
For importing records, values in the match fields determine which records in the source table
update which records in the target table.
Menu
A list of menu items. Each menu has a title that appears on the menu bar.