Automating FileMaker Pro: Scripting, Calculations, and Data Transfer
Everything you ever wanted to know about scripting, calculations, and data transfer.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Automating FileMaker Pro: Scripting, Calculations, and Data Transfer
Chapter 1: FileMaker Pro: A Review
Overview
This chapter provides a brief overview of FileMaker Pro. First, you will find a section on the terminology used in FileMaker Pro. Some of this is common to other database systems, but even if you are familiar with databases, FileMaker Pro's slight variations on some common usages may trip you up. Next, you will see what FileMaker Pro looks like as you use it. Finally, there is a section that shows you how to get additional assistance with FileMaker Pro.
You may have the most current version of FileMaker Pro (version 5); you may have an earlier version probably version 4 or version 3. This chapter applies to the basics and therefore to each version of FileMaker Pro since version 3.
Terminology
FileMaker Pro is designed in order that end users (otherwise known as ordinary people) can use it as easily as power users or information technology (IT) professionals. There is a minimum of mumbo jumbo, and a mere seven terms require definitions.
| Note | Reference is made here to SQL Structured Query Language. You can find out more about SQL in Chapter 11, "What You Need to Know about SQL" starting on page 249; it is an industry standard database language that is used in one way or another by most modern database products. FileMaker Pro deals with SQL through its ODBC interface. |
Projects and Solutions
FileMaker Pro itself is a program (sometimes called an application program and sometimes called an application). It manages your data for you and lets you...
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