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
Creating and running reports 77
4. Click Next.
5. Move the Membership Type field to the Report categories list to
organize the records by membership type.
Membership Type is referred to as a break field because you are
using the contents of this field to break the records into categories for
your report.
6. Click Next.
7. Move the Last Name field to the Sort order list.
This sorts the records in each group of membership types
alphabetically by members’ last names. Notice that the break field
Membership Type appears automatically at the top of the Sort order
list to enable FileMaker Pro to group records by this category.
8. Click Next.
Select a theme and create the header and footer
1. Select the Standard theme to set the text size, color, and style of
the finished report.
2. Click Next.
3. Go to the Top center list and select Large Custom Text.
4. Type Membership Type Report for the header of the report and
click OK.
5. Go to the Bottom center list and select Page Number to number the
pages in the report’s footer.