Installation Guide

Chapter 1
Before you begin
W elcome to your FileMaker
®
softw are. FileMaker is designed to help
you manage information easily and
effectively.
A bout this guide
This Installation Guide tells you how to install FileMaker Pro 8 or
FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced on your Windows or Mac
OS computer.
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. 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
new features such as customizing menus; copying and importing
tables; enhanced 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 tak e 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.
About the license key
FileMak er 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.
You can find license keys in your volume license agreement, or in one
of these documents in your product box:
1 Service Directory, License Keys, and Proof of Purchase
1 License Key Information
Important You must enter the license key during installation or the
software will not install.