Installation and New Features Guide (Mac OS)

Chapter 2: New features in FileMaker Pro
This chapter introduces the new features available in FileMaker Pro 3.0.
Relational database capability
FileMaker Pro 3.0 supports relational features that you can use to display the
contents of a field from another database file. You can display records from
the related file in a layout of the current file.
A
relational database is one or more discrete database files that contain all
the data you need to do your work. In a relational database, each occurrence
of data is stored in only one file at a time, but you can access and work with
that data from any file.
For more information about relational databases, see chapter 10, “Using data
from related files,” in the
FileMaker Pro User’s Guide.
Improved networking
You can now use the Preferences dialog box to choose the network protocol
that FileMaker Pro uses to communicate over a network. For more
information about setting this preference, see “Choosing a network protocol”
in chapter 1 of this manual.
FileMaker Pro now ships with TCP/IP support for Macintosh and Windows.
In this relational database, the Customer layout displays invoices from the Invoices file. The
two files are related by the Cust ID field.