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4-10 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
Viewing and inserting data from another source
To maintain consistency across records, you can do the following:
1 View values in the index (when a field is indexed), which contains all
the values in the currently selected field and insert them into the
current field.
1 Insert the current date, time, or user name.
Working with the index
When you have field values indexed (by selecting storage options in the
Entry Options dialog box), FileMaker Pro indexes the values in each
text, number, date, time, and calculation field. You can view the values
in a field’s index, and insert them into the field to prevent typing
duplicate values incorrectly. (To index fields, see “Indexing fields” on
page 2-12.)
Note Inserting values from the index is useful in Find mode. In Browse
mode, prevent errors by creating a value list and inserting values from
the list into the currently selected field instead of pasting values from the
index. (See “Defining value lists” on page 3-75.)
1. Select the field to hold a value from the index.
To replace the current field value, select the data to replace. To select
the entire contents of the field, choose Select All from the Edit menu.
Choose FileMaker Help Index from the or Help menu, and then type:
E entering data
Type a value to
enter in the field