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
56 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
Table view
Table view is not a type of layout; it’s a view of your data in a
spreadsheet-like grid format where you can quickly rearrange fields in
Browse mode. For example, you can quickly reorder, resize, or sort
columns (fields) with just a mouse click (if those options are set).
Table view is one of three views available for any layout in FileMaker
Pro. For more information, see
“Viewing records” on page 18.
As with a Columnar list/report layout, a Table view contains the fields
you select, in the order you specify from left to right, with field names
as column headings.
Note Table view is similar to a simple Columnar list/report layout, but
there are differences.
Table view is a more flexible arrangement of the
data because it can be enabled or disabled in Browse mode. It’s useful
when you want to let users make simple changes to how data is
displayed in Browse mode, or when you want to provide a familiar,
spreadsheet-like appearance to your data.
Labels
Use a Labels layout to arrange fields you select to print on one of the
predefined standard label sizes. (FileMaker Pro includes the
dimensions of a large number of standard label types.) If the label type
you want isn’t available, you can specify custom label dimensions.
With the Vertical labels layout, Asian and full-width characters are
rotated so that labels may be used vertically. For information about
vertical writing, see
“Formatting fields and text for vertical writing”
on page 66.