User manual

Preface
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Introducing FileMaker Pro 11
Sharing and exchanging data
A benefit of storing data in FileMaker Pro is sharing your data with
others. You can share your data with other FileMaker
Pro users on a
network, use the web publishing capabilities to share data over the
web, or use ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) and JDBC (Java
Database Connectivity) to share FileMaker
Pro files with ODBC- and
JDBC-compliant applications.
If your computer is connected to a network, you and other Windows
and Mac
OS FileMaker Pro users can use the same database file
simultaneously. FileMaker Pro Network Sharing supports the sharing
of files with up to five concurrent users.
Note If you need to share files with more than five concurrent users
on a network, FileMaker recommends the use of FileMaker Server.
You can quickly and easily publish FileMaker Pro layouts as web
pages, which allows anyone with a web browser on your intranet (or
the Internet) to access your FileMaker Pro databases.
With FileMaker Pro accounts and privilege sets, you can make your
web databases secure.
Using SQL (Structured Query Language) queries, you can get data
from FileMaker Pro files to create charts, generate reports, and
analyze your data with ODBC- and JDBC-compliant software
applications. You can also use FileMaker Pro as an ODBC client
application, accessing data sources such as Microsoft Access or
Oracle databases. For more information about using, and the
limitations of using, ODBC and JDBC with FileMaker Pro, see Help.
For more information about sharing and exchanging data, see
chapter 4, “Sharing and exchanging data.”
Saving and sending databases in other formats
FileMaker Pro lets you save data in different file formats, such as
Microsoft Excel worksheets and Adobe PDF files, so you can give the
files to users who do not have FileMaker
Pro. You can automatically
email the files after saving them. For more information, see
“Saving
and sending data in other formats” on page 84.
New features
Information sharing features
For more information on this feature See
Saving data in Adobe PDF and Microsoft
Excel format
“Saving and sending data in
other formats” on page 84
New command to send emails “Sending email messages based
on record data” on page 85
Importing data from another file into a new
table in the current file. This allows you to
consolidate data previously stored in separate
databases.
“Methods of importing data into
an existing file” on page 85
Export data in Excel format (.xls) “About the exporting process”
on page 88