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Opening files via the File Browser

Opening files via the File Browser

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Opening files via the File Browser

When you first open FileMaker Go, you're presented with what's called the Home Screen. The Home Screen makes it easy to access all the files on your device or connect to remotely hosted devices. But before we get to those, you will also notice in the upper right-hand corner, if you click on this little wrench icon you'll be presented with the settings. And it's not a bad idea to go on here to change things like Usernames or if you want to show your Status Bar or turn on and off Auto-Correction and the rest of it is just information about the device and about the FileMaker app. So now we can close the Settings window and we'll see the File Browser. Once you've transferred your databases to your device or if you have a database hosted on the server, you will be able to open them up and start using it through this File Browser Interface. FileMaker Go provides the File Browser to manage local files and any servers that you may want to connect to. For example, all the files you see on the…

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