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Welcome to FileMaker Pro

Welcome to the FileMaker Pro application from Claris Corporation.

FileMaker Pro is designed to help you manage information easily

and effectively.

This installation guide, the

FileMaker Pro User’s Guide

, and the onscreen

Help system work together to give you the information you need to know as

you learn about FileMaker Pro.

For a complete description of what’s in the documentation set, see “Getting

Help” in the

FileMaker Pro User’s Guide.

About this guide

This

FileMaker Pro Installation & New Features Guide

includes

instructions for installing the application on your hard disk.

Chapter 1, “Installing FileMaker Pro,” gives instructions for installing the

application, registering your ownership, and everything else you need to

do before you can use FileMaker Pro.

Chapter 2, “New features in FileMaker Pro,” provides an overview of the

new features in FileMaker Pro 3.0. This chapter is especially helpful for

users upgrading from previous versions of FileMaker Pro.

Using this book

This guide presents special information in the following ways:

Descriptive heading

messages give extra information about a procedure.

Note

messages provide background or supplemental information.

Important

messages alert you to situations that require special attention, such

as an action that you can’t undo.

Getting customer support

To learn about Claris Technical Support and Claris Customer Assistance,

their hours of operation, and their telephone numbers, see the

Claris Service

Summary of content (22 pages)

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Welcome to FileMaker Pro Welcome to the FileMaker Pro application from Claris Corporation. FileMaker Pro is designed to help you manage information easily and effectively. This installation guide, the FileMaker Pro User’s Guide, and the onscreen Help system work together to give you the information you need to know as you learn about FileMaker Pro. For a complete description of what’s in the documentation set, see “Getting Help” in the FileMaker Pro User’s Guide.
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Chapter 1: Installing FileMaker Pro This book gives you step-by-step instructions for installing FileMaker Pro software for Windows. In this chapter, you find the instructions for installing FileMaker Pro on your hard disk. Note These instructions assume that you’re familiar with standard mouse techniques such as clicking and dragging. If you need more information about mouse techniques or working with disks, see the documentation that came with your Windows software.
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1-2 FileMaker Pro Installation & New Features Guide Networking requirements To share files among users on a network, you need to have the following additional software and hardware installed on your PC: 1 a Windows-compatible network card 1 the software driver for your network card 1 the appropriate IPX/SPX network protocol or TCP/IP network protocol for Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups, or Windows 3.1 Note FileMaker Pro 3.0v3 supports only IPX/SPX networking under Windows 3.1.
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Installing FileMaker Pro 1-3 To install Win32s: 1. Open the 386 Enhanced control panel and change the virtual memory type to Permanent. 2. Make sure the swap file size is at least 20480 KB. 3. Select Use 32-Bit Disk Access and Use 32-Bit File Access, if available. 4. Click OK. If you made changes, you’ll need to restart Windows before installing Win32s. Change virtual memory type to Permanent Set swap file to at least 20480 KB Enable 32-bit disk access Enable 32-Bit File Access 5. Install Win32s.
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1-4 FileMaker Pro Installation & New Features Guide Installing FileMaker Pro You must use the installation program to install FileMaker Pro—you can’t install FileMaker Pro by dragging files to your hard disk. The CD-ROM contains information, such as additional templates and support information, not found in the disk set. The floppy disks are included as a convenience for users who do not have CD-ROM drives.
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Installing FileMaker Pro 1-5 You see the Add/Remove Programs Properties dialog box. 5. Click Install. 6. When you see the prompt, insert Disk 1 into the floppy disk drive. 7. Click Next. The installation program finds the setup file for FileMaker Pro (SETUP.EXE). 8. Click Finish. 9. Follow the installation instructions provided on the screen.
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1-6 FileMaker Pro Installation & New Features Guide After the installation program copies all the files, it creates a menu item for FileMaker Pro in the Start menu. Default location for the FileMaker Pro menu item in the Start menu If you are using the IPX/SPX network protocol to host FileMaker Pro databases To allow the maximum number of guests (25), your IPX/SPX connections must be set to 30 or greater.
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Installing FileMaker Pro 1-7 Adjusting network software Depending on the networking protocol you’re using, you may have to modify settings on the host and/or guest computers. If you are using the IPX/SPX protocol with Windows 95, you might need to increase the number of IPX/SPX connections. To allow the maximum number of guests (25), your IPX/SPX connections must be set to 40 or greater. The FileMaker Pro Installer checks this setting and adjusts it automatically, if necessary, during installation.
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1-8 FileMaker Pro Installation & New Features Guide Registering your software Take a minute to register FileMaker Pro in one of the following ways: 1 complete and mail the postage-paid product registration card 1 call (800) 356-6657 to register by phone 1 use the onscreen registration database by clicking the Register button in the New Database dialog box, which you see when you start FileMaker Pro. You can fax the completed registration card to Claris or send it by mail.
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Installing FileMaker Pro 1-9 2. Click the Memory tab at the top of the dialog box. 3. Type a number in the Attempt cache size of box. 4. Click Done. The next time you start FileMaker Pro, the new cache size is used. Changing the network protocol During installation, you chose a network protocol (or No Networking) for FileMaker Pro. You can change the network protocol at any time. You must choose a network protocol if you want to share FileMaker Pro files over a network, either as a guest or as a host.
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1-10 FileMaker Pro Installation & New Features Guide 3. Choose a network protocol from the Network Protocol pop-up menu. Changes to this setting don’t take effect until you quit FileMaker Pro and then start it again. Opening files from previous versions FileMaker Pro 3.0 can open both Windows and Macintosh files created by FileMaker Pro 2.0 or later. FileMaker Pro 1.0 databases To use a database created by FileMaker Pro 1.0, you must first convert it on a Macintosh with version 2.
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Installing FileMaker Pro 1-11 3. Type a name to rename the original file, or uncheck the Rename old file checkbox to retain the name of the file. The original file remains in the older format. After you click OK, you see another dialog box where you can name the file that will be created and saved in the new format. You cannot use the converted file with versions of FileMaker Pro earlier than 3.0. 4. Click Save to start the conversion. FileMaker Pro converts the file and opens it.
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1-12 FileMaker Pro Installation & New Features Guide Preferred location on Windows for Workgroups and Windows 3.1 File or folder Description Preferred location on Windows 95 FMTOOLS.DLL FileMaker application module FileMaker Pro 3.0 folder \FMPro30 FMPRO30.HLP FileMaker Pro online help document FileMaker Pro 3.0 folder \FMPro30 TEMPLATE Folder containing predesigned FileMaker Pro 3.0 folder templates that help you use FileMaker Pro right away \FMPro30 EXAMPLES Folder containing database ex
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Installing FileMaker Pro 1-13 Preferred location on Windows 95 Preferred location on Windows for Workgroups and Windows 3.1 File or folder Description FMWMF32.FLT Metafile graphic filter System folder in the FileMaker Pro 3.0 folder \FMPro30\System CTL3d32.DLL Windows 3-D interface not applicable \Windows\System NWNETAPI.DLL Novell Networking software not applicable \Windows\System NWIPXSPX.DLL Novell Networking software not applicable \Windows\System FMIPX16.
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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.
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2-2 FileMaker Pro Installation & New Features 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. For more information about networking, see chapter 1, “Installing FileMaker Pro,” in this manual. FileMaker Pro 3.
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New features in FileMaker Pro 2-3 1 1 1 1 1 1 correct a word while spell checking set spelling options, such as check spelling while you type change your spell checking dictionaries modify your User Dictionary specify which portal row record to delete and much more... Scripts can now be executed when a file is opened and/or when a file is closed. You can use the Duplicate button to quickly duplicate scripts or script steps.
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2-4 FileMaker Pro Installation & New Features Guide Field definition improvements With the new options for field definitions, you can: 1 use global fields to show the same value in every record 1 validate data entry by calculation or a value list 1 auto-enter a value from the previous record or based on the result of a calculation 1 specify a custom validation message In addition, you can define new storage options for text, number, date, time, and calculation fields.
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New features in FileMaker Pro 2-5 1 remove a layout from the Layout pop-up menu that appears in Browse mode 1 work with additional zoom levels 1 set custom page margins for your layouts 1 use a new context pop-up menu to edit a selection in both Layout and Browse modes Sample data in Layout mode now comes from your own records, so you can design your layouts more accurately. Label layout creation has been simplified. The new interface avoids the need to use sliding.
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2-6 FileMaker Pro Installation & New Features Guide New ways to limit user access You can disable all or most of the menus using new access privileges, and you can disable the status area using ScriptMaker. For more information see chapter 7, “Networking and access privileges,” and chapter 5, “Using ScriptMaker and buttons,” in the FileMaker Pro User’s Guide.