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
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Index 113
Labels layout
See also Layouts
described 56
standard sizes 56
Layout mode, described 17
Layout objects. See Objects
Layout parts
body 68
described 68
field labels 61
footer 68
grand summary 68
header 68
subsummary 68
title header and footer 68
Layout pop-up menu 15, 53
Layouts
adding fields 60
Blank 57
Columnar list/report 55
columns
changing width 58
setup 57
creating 53
described 9, 53
Envelope 57
fields
displaying 9, 53
dragging onto layout 61
merge 58
placing 60
removing 61
selecting 59
form layout 55
form view 18
Labels 56
placing related fields 63
printing 35
related fields, placing 63
Standard form 55
tabbed panels on 53
Table view 54
tools 58
types 55
vertical labels 56
Limits
characters in fields 22
field names 44
Lists, viewing records as 18
Literal text searches 25
Locked objects 59
Locking, shared records 83
Log file, conversion 105
Logical
AND searches 29, 30
OR searches 29, 30
Lookups
changing 80
defining 79
described 69
lookup source field 71
lookup target field 71
stopping or suspending 80
Lotus 1-2-3 format 85
M
Macros. See Scripts
Mail merge, using merge fields 63
Mailing labels 56
Margins, displaying in Preview mode 35
Match fields
See also Fields
described 71, 72
in import update 86
Matching records, updating 86
Mathematical operators 47
Maximum characters in fields 22
Maximum for summary fields 48
Merge fields 63
Merge format 85
Microsoft Excel format 85
saving data as 84
Migrating files 101
Minimum for summary fields 48
Mode pop-up menu 17, 53
Mode tabs 17
Moving
field to field 22
record to record 20
Multimedia files 45
N
Naming
databases 43
fields 45
tables 53
Networks
cross-platform 11, 81
FileMaker Server 81
New Layout/Report assistant, described 54
Non-shared files 95
Number fields
See also Fields
described 44
entering and editing values in 22
finding 26
formatting 64
Numbers, invalid 27
O
Objects, layout
described 58
locked 59
selecting 59
ODBC
field name considerations 44
privileges for 92, 98
using with FileMaker products 7, 11
Omitting
fields during printing 63
records 30
related 29, 31
Opening
files 14
multiple windows 15
Operators
comparison 47
in find requests 24, 28
mathematical 47
relational 71, 74, 78