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
Index I-11
window size 9-9
Preset label sizes 3-11
Preview mode 1-7, 6-11
Previewing
See also Printing
columns 3-22
records 6-11
related records 10-32
subsummaries 3-31
Print area
labels 3-17
objects outside 6-3
viewing 6-3, 6-11
Print preview. See Preview mode
Printer, selecting 6-14
Printing
See also Previewing
access privileges for 7-13
blank records 6-1, 6-12
canceling 6-13
columns 3-22
Extended columnar layout 6-10
field definitions 6-1, 6-12
forms 6-1, 6-12
headers and footers 6-1
labels
dot matrix printer 3-13
setup 3-13
tips 3-13, 3-17
layouts 6-1, 6-12
overview 6-1
page orientation 6-10, 6-12
previewing 6-11
print area 3-17, 6-3, 6-11
procedures 6-12
records 6-1, 6-12
related records 10-32
reports 6-1, 6-12
script definitions 6-1, 6-12
setup 6-14
stopping 6-13
subsummaries 3-22, 6-11
Privileges. See Access privileges
Procedures. See Scripts
Protecting files. See Access privileges
Publish and Subscribe. See Edition
Manager
Publishing, databases on the
Web 11-1
overview 11-3
Pushbuttons. See Buttons
Q
QuickHelp application XII
QuickTime movies. See Movies
Quitting FileMaker Pro 1-13, 7-8
Quotation marks in searches 4-23
Quotes, smart 9-8
R
Radio buttons
See also Value lists
choosing from 4-9
displaying field values 3-75
editing 4-9
tab order 3-70
Ranges, finding 4-20
Read/write password. See Access
privileges
Read-only password. See Access
privileges
Record locking 7-6
Recording
scripts 5-12
sounds 4-8
Records
access privileges 7-13
adding 4-4
appending 8-4
browsing
groups of 4-1
in a list 4-16
individual 4-16
on Web 11-15 to 11-18
sorted records 4-30
copying 4-4, 4-12
deleting
duplicates 4-20
on Web 11-15 to 11-18
overview 4-29
described 1-2, 1-5
duplicating 4-4
exporting 8-9
finding
all 4-25
duplicates 5-34
on Web 11-15 to 11-18
overview 4-19
importing 8-4
locked 7-6
modifying field values 4-14
moving to 4-18
omitting 4-26
previewing 6-11
printing
blank 6-1, 6-12
large 6-1, 6-10
overview 6-1
procedures 6-12
reserializing 4-14
reverting 4-4
semi-sorted 4-32
sorting
on Web 11-13
overview 4-30
related records 10-36
Records, master. See Master records
Records, related. See Related records
Recovering files A-1
Rectangle tool 3-53
Registering FileMaker Pro XI
Related fields
See also Fields; Relational
databases
calculations 10-31
changing 10-27
deleting 10-28
described 10-3
display on Web 11-6, 11-13
field definitions 10-30
finding 10-34
on layouts 10-26
one-to-one relationship between
data 10-20
planning 10-17
script steps for 10-31
sorting 4-32, 10-35
summarizing data 10-31
syntax for field names 10-3
Related files
See also Files; Relational databases
access privileges 10-10, 10-19,
10-30
described 1-6, 10-2
planning 10-15
shared 10-32
Related records
See also Records; Relational
databases