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Contents III Contents Chapter 1: Installing FileMaker Pro About this guide Registration and customer support What you need to install FileMaker Pro Minimum hardware and software requirements Networking requirements Web publishing requirements Requirements for advanced features Before you begin Installing FileMaker Pro Starting the Installer Easy installation Custom installation Updating your User Dictionary Where files are stored on your hard disk FileMaker Pro 4.
IV FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide Appendix A: MacIPX control panel Using an Ethernet or token-ring network interface for MacIPX Selecting a frame type Using an AppleTalk interface for MacIPX Setting advanced MacIPX parameters A-1 A-2 A-4 A-6
Chapter 1: Installing FileMaker Pro Welcome to the FileMaker Pro application from Claris Corporation. FileMaker Pro is designed to help you manage information easily and effectively. About this guide This FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide includes instructions for installing the application on your hard disk.
1-2 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide What you need to install FileMaker Pro This guide gives instructions for installing the FileMaker Pro application and associated files on your Mac OS computer. Before you begin installing, you must know how you plan to use FileMaker Pro. 1 On a stand-alone computer—you want to use FileMaker Pro on your computer, and you don’t plan to share files with other users over a network.
Installing FileMaker Pro 1-3 Networking requirements To share files among users on a network, you can use TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, or AppleTalk networking software. You can use one of the following solutions to share files on a mixed Mac OS and PC network. Mac OS Windows 95 Windows NT Windows for Workgroups Windows 3.1 TCP/IP MacTCP 2.0.6 or Microsoft TCP/IP (recommended) later or Open Transport 1.1 or later Microsoft TCP/IP Microsoft TCP/IP-32 Network version 3.11b TeleSystems TCP Pro 3.
1-4 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide Requirements for advanced features Some of the advanced features of FileMaker Pro 4.0 require additional software. FileMaker Pro 4.0 advanced feature Software requirement URL support Internet Config 1.1 or later Open URL script step Internet Config 1.1 or later Send Mail script step Internet Config 1.
Installing FileMaker Pro 1-5 3. Double-click the file named Start Here. You see the software license agreement. 4. Click Accept to accept the license agreement. You see the FileMaker Pro Installer dialog box. 5. Follow the steps described in one of the following sections: 1 If you want to install all the available files, continue with “Easy installation.” 1 If you want to install a subset of the FileMaker Pro files, skip to “Custom installation” on page 1-7.
1-6 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide 1 If you don’t see the name of the hard disk where you want to install FileMaker Pro, click the Switch Disk button, which appears only when you have more than one volume mounted. 1 If you switch to a disk that isn’t a hard disk or is locked, the Install button is dimmed and the dialog box tells you why you can’t install onto that disk. 1 If the selected disk doesn’t have enough space for the files you select, you see a message.
Installing FileMaker Pro 1-7 The Installation Code number is not optional. Look for your Installation Code in the product package. Check your typing carefully. After you click OK, you can’t change the name, company, or Installation Code number unless you re-install FileMaker Pro. 7. Click OK. The Installer begins copying files. A dialog box tells you what the Installer is doing. After all the files are installed, a final dialog box tells you the installation on your hard disk was successful. 8.
1-8 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide 3. Select the files you want to install by clicking the checkboxes. 4. Specify the installation location, or use the default location. 1 If you don’t see the name of the hard disk where you want to install FileMaker Pro, click the Switch Disk button, which appears only when you have more than one volume mounted.
Installing FileMaker Pro 1-9 The Installation Code number is not optional. Look for your Installation Code card in the product package. Check your typing carefully. After you click OK, you can’t change the name, company, or Installation Code number unless you re-install FileMaker Pro. 9. Click OK. The Installer begins copying files. A dialog box tells you what the Installer is doing. After the selected files are installed, a final dialog box tells you the installation on your hard disk was successful. 10.
1-10 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide FileMaker Pro 4.0 Folder This table shows the files and folders installed in the FileMaker Pro Folder. FileMaker Pro 4.0 Folder File or folder Description FileMaker Pro The FileMaker Pro 4.
Installing FileMaker Pro 1-11 FileMaker Pro 4.
1-12 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide System Folder This table shows the files and folders placed in your System Folder. System Folder File or folder Description Claris folder FileMaker Help Viewer The application that accesses the FileMaker Pro Help file USENGLSH.MPR The primary dictionaries that FileMaker Pro uses to spell check your files. You can select either U.S. or British spellings for your main dictionary. Each dictionary contains over 100,000 words. UKENGLSH.MPR USER.
Installing FileMaker Pro 1-13 Adjusting memory The Mac OS sets aside a certain amount of memory for FileMaker Pro.
1-14 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide 3. Choose Get Info from the File menu. You see the FileMaker Pro Info window. Change the amount of memory FileMaker Pro uses here 4. In the Memory Requirements area at the bottom of the window, double-click the Preferred size number and type a number to change the memory allocated for FileMaker Pro. If you can’t type in the box, make sure you’ve quit FileMaker Pro. 5. Click the close box.
Installing FileMaker Pro 1-15 To choose a network protocol: 1. Choose Preferences from the Edit menu, and then choose Application. You see the Application Preferences dialog box. If necessary, choose General from the pop-up menu at the top of the dialog box. 2. Choose a network protocol from the Network protocol pop-up menu. 3. Click Done. 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 4.
1-16 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide 2. Choose Open from the File menu and select the file you want in the Open dialog box. You can also drag and drop a group of files onto the FileMaker Pro 4.0 icon. You see the Conversion dialog box. 3. Type a name to rename the original file, or deselect the Rename old file as checkbox to retain the name of the file. If you use the default settings, the original file remains in the older format. 4. Click OK.
Chapter 2: New features in FileMaker Pro This chapter introduces the new features available in FileMaker Pro 4.0. Web publishing capabilities Using FileMaker Pro 4.0, you can access your database from almost anywhere in the world. Your file can be viewed, edited, sorted, and searched with just Web browser software and access to the Internet or your intranet. You can also choose how much or how little access users have to your file. Note Access to the Internet requires an Internet service provider.
2-2 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide Custom Web Publishing You can create a complete, custom, interactive Web solution using FileMaker Pro 4.0 Web Companion and dynamic HTML files. FileMaker Pro now can publish HTML documents containing GIF and JPEG graphics, animated GIF files, QuickTime movies, AIFF files, or Java applets. For step-by-step instructions on Custom Web Publishing, see the CDML Reference database in the Web Tools folder.
New features in FileMaker Pro 2-3 Expanded Sort and Find options Related records can now be sorted within a portal or as part of a related list. With the addition of exact field matches, Find requests can be even more specific.
Appendix A: MacIPX control panel You can use the MacIPX control panel to: 1 select the network interface for your applications which use MacIPX 1 change parameters that MacIPX uses (if necessary) Important For enhanced performance, TCP/IP is recommended. Using an Ethernet or token-ring network interface for MacIPX The MacIPX control panel displays icons for the available network interfaces, such as Ethernet, AppleTalk, and token ring.
A-2 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide 2. Click one of the icons to select it. After you select the IPX interface, the control panel displays the network number and node number of your Macintosh on the selected interface The software on your computer system determines which icons you see. 3. Click OK, and then close the MacIPX dialog box. Note MacIPX 1.3.1 supports most Ethernet interface cards, as well as the token-ring interface card from Apple Computer.
MacIPX control panel A-3 To have MacIPX select the frame type: 1. In the MacIPX control panel, double-click the selected network interface icon. You see the Access Configuration dialog box for your chosen network interface. For example, if you click the Ethernet icon, you see the Ethernet Access Configuration dialog box, where you can set parameters for working with Ethernet. The dialog box shows the currently selected frame type 2.
A-4 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide To select a frame type manually: 1. In the Access Configuration dialog box, deselect Always Auto-Configure Frame Type. 2. Click the appropriate frame type, and then click OK. Check with your network administrator if you’re not sure which frame type to select. When you close the dialog box, you see an alert dialog box. 3. Click OK. To have MacIPX determine the appropriate frame type at any moment: 1.
MacIPX control panel A-5 2. If necessary, click the AppleTalk icon to select it and then click the close box. Your computer then sends IPX packets encapsulated in AppleTalk, which are delivered on the LocalTalk network to an IPX gateway. The gateway decapsulates these packets and routes them over an IPX network. See the following steps for information on selecting a gateway. To have MacIPX select an available IPX gateway: 1. In the MacIPX control panel, click the selected AppleTalk icon.
A-6 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide 2. Choose an AppleTalk zone where an IPX gateway is installed. When you click a zone name, you see a list of available IPX gateways. 3. Click an IPX gateway. 4. Click OK to close the dialog box. Setting advanced MacIPX parameters From the MacIPX control panel, you can set other parameters that affect MacIPX operations. Important Only a certified network engineer or administrator should change the advanced parameters.
MacIPX control panel A-7 2. Set the parameters you want and click OK to save your changes. You must restart your computer for the changes to take effect. Note To restore the parameters to the default settings provided by Novell, click Restore Defaults and restart your system. If you make changes to the settings and want to restore the parameters to what they were when you opened the dialog box, click Cancel.
A-8 FileMaker Pro Installation and New Features Guide SPX parameter Function Listen Timeout Sets the time that SPX waits (without receiving a packet from the other side of the connection) before it requests the other side to send back a packet assuring that the connection is still valid. If SPX hasn’t heard from the other side of the connection within this time, it sends packets to the other side asking for verification that the connection still exists. The default value is 1200 ticks, or 20 seconds.
