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
- Quick Reference
Linking and embedding objects D-9
Keep these points in mind:
1 In Browse mode, you can’t activate an OLE object placed on a layout.
1 When you activate an object, the application that created it performs a
command, like Play. To access a different command (for example, Open
instead of Play), choose Objects from the Edit menu, and then choose
the command.
1 To choose OLE object commands from a pop-up menu, hold down
the right, or secondary, mouse button on the object.
Editing OLE objects
When an object is active, you can edit it. When you change a linked
object, other files that are linked to that object also change.
Updating and changing links
Information in a linked OLE object exists in a source file outside your
FileMaker Pro file and can change. To work with the most current
information, update links so that your view of the object matches the
source file.
Choose FileMaker Help Index from the Help menu, and then type:
E OLE objects, activating
To edit Do this
Embedded objects 1 If the application that created the object opens a separate window,
edit the object, update it, and then exit from the application
1 If the application replaces FileMaker Pro menu commands, edit the
object, and then click the layout outside the object
Linked objects Edit the object, save the file, and then exit the application
Choose FileMaker Help Index from the Help menu, and then type:
E OLE objects, editing
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