Quick Start
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Welcome to FileMaker Pro
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMaker Pro in Windows
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMaker Pro in the Mac OS
- Chapter 4 New features in FileMaker Pro
- New features in FileMaker Pro 5.5
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Ease-of-use improvements
- Record-by-record access privileges
- Scripting improvements
- New logical, design, and status functions
- Extended ODBC and SQL functionality
- Import named ranges of Microsoft Excel data
- Search only the relative path for FileMaker Pro files
- Relaxed rules for mapping fields and relationships when importing scripts
- Dynamic field name matching in data import scripts
- Import more graphics file formats
- Increased productivity with FileMaker Server
- Prevent users from changing passwords
- Prevent users from creating databases
- Validation of the number of characters in a field
- Open a FileMaker Pro database via a URL (Mac OS)
- Web publishing enhancements
- Backward compatibility
- New features in FileMaker Pro 5
- Hands-on, task-oriented tutorial
- New features in FileMaker Pro 5.5
- Lesson 1 FileMaker Pro basics
- Lesson 2 Browsing information
- Lesson 3 Finding and sorting records
- Lesson 4 Creating a database and entering records
- Lesson 5 Customizing what you see
- Lesson 6 Creating lists, mailing labels, and form letters
- Lesson 7 Simplifying data entry
- Lesson 8 Automating tasks with buttons and scripts
- Lesson 9 Creating and running reports
- Lesson 10 Making databases relational
- Lesson 11 Keeping your data safe
6 Getting Started Guide
Create a script to preview the Labels Layout 72
Assign a script to a button 74
For more information 74
Lesson 9
Creating and running reports
Generate a report with grouped data 75
Look at a sample report 75
About subsummary reports 76
Create a subsummary report 76
Generate a report with grouped data and totals 78
Look at a sample report 78
Create a report with grouped data and totals 79
For more information 80
Lesson 10
Making databases relational
View data from one related record 81
See how relationships work in the sample files 81
About related files 81
Display a related record in a file 82
View data from a list of related records 83
Work with related records in the sample files 83
About working with lists of related records 84
Display a list of related records 84
For more information 85
Lesson 11
Keeping your data safe
How to back up your database 87
When to back up 87
For more information 87