User manual
Table Of Contents
- Preface Introducing FileMaker Pro
- Chapter 1 Using databases
- About database fields and records
- Opening files
- Opening multiple windows per file
- Closing windows and files
- Saving files
- About modes
- Viewing records
- Adding and duplicating records
- Deleting records
- Entering data
- Finding records
- Making a find request
- Performing quick finds based on data in one field
- Finding text and characters
- Finding numbers, dates, times, and timestamps
- Finding ranges of information
- Finding data in related fields
- Finding empty or non-empty fields
- Finding duplicate values
- Finding records that match multiple criteria
- Finding records except those matching criteria
- Deleting and reverting requests
- Viewing, repeating, or changing the last find
- Hiding records from a found set and viewing hidden records
- Finding and replacing data
- Sorting records
- Previewing and printing databases
- Automating tasks with scripts
- Backing up database files
- Setting preferences
- Chapter 2 Creating databases
- Chapter 3 Working with related tables and files
- Chapter 4 Sharing and exchanging data
- Sharing databases on a network
- Importing and exporting data
- Saving and sending data in other formats
- Sending email messages based on record data
- Supported import/export file formats
- ODBC and JDBC
- Methods of importing data into an existing file
- About adding records
- About updating existing records
- About updating matching records
- About the importing process
- Converting a data file to a new FileMaker Pro file
- About the exporting process
- Publishing databases on the web
- Chapter 5 Protecting databases with accounts and privilege sets
- Chapter 6 Converting FileMaker databases from previous versions
- Index
104 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
There are several ways that you can select the files that you want to
convert; you can drag and drop the files (or a folder containing the
files) onto the FileMaker
Pro 8 application icon, or you can select
multiple files in the FileMaker
Pro Open dialog box.
To convert multiple files at once:
1. If the files you want to convert are currently open in the previous
version of FileMaker Pro, close the files.
If you attempt to convert files that are currently open, an alert message
will appear indicating that the files are already in use, and they won’t
convert.
2. In Windows Explorer or in a Finder window (Mac OS) create a
new, empty folder for the converted files.
3. Do one of the following to select and open the files you want to
convert:
1 Files method: In Windows Explorer or in a Finder window
(Mac
OS) select the files you want to convert, and then drag them
onto the FileMaker
Pro 8 application icon.
1 Folder method: If a folder contains all of the files you want to
convert, drag the folder onto the FileMaker
Pro 8 application icon.
If you are converting a multi-file relational database in which files
are organized in subfolders, you need to convert each folder
separately. First create new folders in the same structure for the
converted files. Then convert files in subfolders at the lowest level
first by dragging the subfolder onto the FileMaker
Pro 8
application icon, indicating the correct new destination folder
when prompted. When all related files in subfolders have been
converted, use the “Files method” described above to convert files
located in the original parent folder.
1 Open dialog box method: In FileMaker Pro 8, choose File
menu
> Open, and select the files you want to convert in the Open
dialog box by holding down Ctrl (Windows) or
2 (Mac OS), and
clicking each file. (You can also select a range of adjacent files by
clicking the first file and then Shift-clicking the last file in the
range.) Then click
Open.
The Open Multiple Files dialog box appears.
4. Choose Open all files and convert when necessary.