U.M. (Windows)

10-16 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
3. Determine the match field or fields for each file.
Each database file has at least one field that can be used to determine
whether or not a new record should be added to the file. This field is
a match field. Often this field contains a value unique to each record.
For example, in a Client file you might want to assign each client a
unique, identifying number. You wouldn’t enter a client number into
the file unless you had a new client to add, so the existence of a client
number determines the existence of a record.
Client file
Route file Trip file