Installation and New Features Guide

Chapter 1
Before you begin
Welcome to your FileMaker
®
software. F ileMaker is designed to
help you manage information easily and
effectively.
A bout this guide
T his Installation and New Features Guide tells you how to install
FileMaker
Pro 7 or FileMaker Developer 7 on your Windows or
Mac
OS computer, and introduces new features in the software.
N ote This guide uses “FileMaker Pro” to refer to both
FileMaker
Pro and FileMaker Developer, unless describing specific
FileMaker Developer features.
The FileMaker Pro User’s Guide provides essential information to
get you working productively right away. If you’ve never used
FileMaker
Pro, work through the FileMaker Pro Tutorial to try out
the major features. For details and comprehensive, step-by-step
procedures, see FileMaker
Pro Help.
The FileMaker Developer Developer’s Guide describes additional
features available in FileMaker Developer, including the Developer
Utilities, the Database Design Report feature, the File Maintenance
tools, the Script Debugger, and the Custom Functions utility.
Note W hen a feature or procedure is specific to a particular platform,
you see instructions and illustrations that are also specific to that
platform. For features or procedures that are similar on both
platforms, you may see illustrations for either Windows or the
Mac
OS.
R egistration and customer support
Please take the time to register your product during installation,
through the FileMaker web site at www.filemaker.com/register, or
by choosing
Help menu > Register Now in FileMaker Pro.
For information about technical support and customer service, see:
www.filemaker.com (North American customers)
www.filemaker.com/intl (customers outside North America)
or choose Help menu > FileMaker on the Web . At the web site, you will
find the service options available to North American customers, as
well as links to FileMaker worldwide sites, answers to frequently
asked questions, and access to the TechInfo Knowledge Base used
by Technical Support. If you do not have access to the web, please
refer to the FileMaker Service Directory included in the software
box. North America customers can also call [phone] to learn
about the service options available.
A bout the license key
FileMaker software comes with a unique, 35-character-string license
key. Do not lose this license key; it cannot be replaced. We
recommend that you keep the license key in a safe place in case the
software ever needs to be reinstalled.
Important You must enter the license key during installation or the
software will not install.