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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Using databases 15
3. To see the available files from a host, select the host. In the
Available Files list, select the file you want to open.
Or, for Address, type the network path (for example,
fmnet:/hostIPaddress/fileName).
4. Click Open.
You might be required to enter an account name, password, and
domain name (Windows only), depending on how FileMaker
Network Sharing is configured on the host.
To open and share a file, see “Enabling file sharing and hosting files”
on page 82.
Note You can open a FileMaker Pro for Windows file on the Mac OS,
and vice versa. If you intend to move files across platforms, it’s best
to include the .fp7 extension in the filename. If you add or remove
filename extensions, you must re-specify the file references for related
files and files with external scripts.
Opening multiple windows per file
You can open more than one window per file. This allows you to view
the same layout in separate windows, or simultaneously view different
layouts in the same file. You can perform find or sort operations
independently in the different windows.
To open an additional window, choose Window menu > New Window.
Another window appears. Initially, the window displays the same
layout, sort order, and found set as the previously active window.
To view a different layout in the new window, choose a layout from
the Layout pop-up menu in the status area. You can also choose a
layout by choosing
View menu > Go to Layout. For information on
finding records, see
“Finding records” on page 23. For information on
sorting records, see “Sorting records” on page 33.
For more information about opening multiple windows, see Help.
The original
database
window, in
which you
can search
the records
A second
window, in
which you can
perform a
different
search on the
same found set