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
80 Getting Started Guide
3. Click Add Grand Total to add the Membership Revenue field as the
grand total at the end of the report. This tells FileMaker Pro to create
a grand total of membership fees.
4. 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 Fee 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.
6. Click Next.
Create a script to run this report again
1. Click Create a script.
2. Leave Script Name as it appears. Click Next.
3. Click View the report in Preview mode if it is not already selected.
4. Click Finish.
Your finished report should look like the report pictured on page 78.
5. When you are finished with this lesson, close each open file by
choosing File menu > Close.
For more information
In this lesson, you generated reports with grouped data, and
reports with grouped data and totals. For more information on
creating reports in FileMaker Pro, see chapters 6 and 7 of the
FileMaker Pro User’s Guide.