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
66 Getting Started Guide
8. Click into the large box and enter the values for this list, New and
Continuing, by typing each value on its own line.
9. Click OK.
10. Click Done.
Assign a value list to a field and display it as radio buttons
1. Choose View menu > Layout Mode.
2. Select the Membership Type field.
3. Choose Format menu > Field Format.
4. In the Style area, click the triangle next to Pop-up list and select
Radio buttons from the list.
5. Click the triangle button to the right of using value list and select
Membership Types from the menu.
6. Click OK. Your radio buttons should be visible in Layout mode.
7. In Browse mode, test your value list and buttons by clicking them.
Select
Radio
buttons
Select the
Membership
Types value list
Membership
Type field
formatted as
radio buttons