U.M. (Windows)
Table Of Contents
- Preface: Getting help
- Chapter 1: FileMakerPro basics
- Chapter 2: Creating a database file
- Chapter 3: Laying out and arranging information
- Understanding layouts
- Working with predefined layout types
- Arranging records in columns
- Managing layouts
- Working with layout parts
- Changing layout parts
- Working with all object types
- Working with graphic objects
- Working with fields in a layout
- Adding fields to a layout
- Adding merge fields
- Deleting a field from a layout
- Defining display formats for fields
- Determining data entry in fields
- Setting the tab order for data entry
- Adding scroll bars to fields
- Formatting repeating fields
- Adding borders, fill, and baselines to fields
- Defining value lists
- Formatting fields with value lists
- Working with text
- Chapter 4: Working with information in records
- Working in Browse mode
- Adding data to a file
- Selecting a field for data entry
- Adding and duplicating records
- Entering and changing data in fields
- Working with container fields
- Entering data from a value list
- Viewing and inserting data from another source
- Copying and moving values and records
- Using drag and drop to move information
- Replacing field values
- Working with records
- Finding information
- Deleting records
- Sorting records
- Chapter 5: Using ScriptMaker and buttons
- Chapter 6: Previewing and printing information
- Chapter 7: Networking and access privileges
- Chapter 8: Importing and exporting data
- Chapter 9: Customizing FileMakerPro
- Chapter 10: Using data from related files
- Chapter 11: Publishing files on the Web
- About the World Wide Web
- About FileMaker Pro Web Companion
- Publishing your database on the Web—an overview
- Getting ready to publish your files on the Web
- Setting up FileMaker Pro Web Companion
- Configuring FileMaker Pro Web Companion
- Setting up Instant Web Publishing
- Database security
- Helping Web users find your database
- Custom Web Publishing
- Appendix A: Recovering damaged files
- Appendix B: Working with international files
- Appendix C: Summary of functions
- Appendix D: Linking and embedding objects
- Index
D-12 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
Working with OLE on a network
You can share FileMaker Pro files that include OLE objects. Some
restrictions apply to Mac OS-based computer users.
If you’re a guest of a FileMaker Pro file with an OLE object, you can edit
the object if you have the application that created it, or an application that
can convert it. (See the previous section.) When a file is being used by
several users, only one user at a time can update an object embedded in a
container field.
If you use FileMaker Pro on a Mac OS-based computer, an OLE object
in a shared file appears in its container field as a graphic. Set the Store
compatible graphics option to view a copy of the object instead of an icon.
(See “Setting document preferences” on page 9-8.)
Users of computers running the Mac OS can cut, copy, and paste OLE
objects as graphics, but they can’t edit the objects. The following table
explains how OLE works with cross-platform networking in
FileMaker Pro.
Choose FileMaker Help Index from the Help menu, and then type:
E OLE objects, editing
With this configuration You can do this
A computer running Windows is the
host and a Mac OS-based computer is
the guest.
On a Mac OS-based computer, you can view
embedded and linked objects as graphics
Applications on your computer
that support OLE, and can read
and write the object’s file format
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