U.M. (Mac OS)
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
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- 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
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- 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
- Index
9-4 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
Setting memory preferences
Changes you make to FileMaker Pro files are stored in an area of RAM
called the cache, and are saved periodically to the hard disk. In memory
preferences, you choose when FileMaker Pro saves your changes.
Setting preferences for dialing phone numbers
Modem and dialing preferences affect the way FileMaker Pro dials
phone numbers. To dial phone numbers:
1. Define a script that includes the Dial Phone step.
Dial Phone specifies which phone numbers to dial. See chapter 5,
“Using ScriptMaker and buttons.”
2. Specify modem and dialing preferences.
See the following sections.
Do this To
Select during idle time Save changes when the system is idle or when the file cache
is full. Don’t use this option with battery-powered portable
computers—it can run down the power supply.
Select every <
value
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or when
necessary, and then choose an
interval from the drop-down list
Save changes at a specified time interval or when the file
cache is full
Choose FileMaker Help Index from the or Help menu, and then type:
E memory preferences