Installation and New Features Guide

Chapter 1
Before you begin
Welcome to your FileMaker
®
software. FileMaker is designed to help
you manage information easily and
effectively.
About this guide
This Installation and New Features Guide tells you how to install
FileMaker
Pro 8.5 or FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced on your Windows
or Mac
OS computer and introduces new features in the software.
Note This guide uses “FileMaker Pro” to refer to both FileMaker Pro and
FileMaker Pro Advanced, unless describing specific FileMaker
Pro
Advanced 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 Pro Advanced Development Guide describes
additional features available in FileMaker Pro Advanced, including
features such as customizing menus; copying and importing tables;
Database Design Reports; field, variable, and expression monitoring
using the Data Viewer; and adding tooltips.
Note When 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.
Registration and customer support
Please take the time to register your product during installation,
through the FileMaker website 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)
To access resources on the FileMaker website such as ready-made
solutions and the FileMaker Knowledge Base, choose Help menu >
Learning Center.
If you do not have access to the web, please refer to the FileMaker
Service Directory that comes with your software. North American
customers can also call [phone] to learn about the service
options available.
About the license key
FileMaker software comes with a unique, 35-digit alphanumeric
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.
You can find your 35-digit alphanumeric license key(s) on the back of
the CD sleeve or in the FileMaker Service Directory that comes with
your software. You must enter the license key during installation or
the software will not install.