From the course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training (2019)
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Creating and duplicating records - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training (2019)
Creating and duplicating records
- [Instructor] So far in this course we've discussed how to work with FileMaker to set up tables and fields in a FileMaker database for you to store your data. Now we're going to the discussion of working with data within those tables. And in this chapter I'm going to be talking specifically about working with records of data. If you look at the exercise file you'll notice that it already has two records of data in it. And for those of you that are new to FileMaker, a record in the database is an instance of whatever we're storing in the database. So in this case, this is a customer table. And we're storing information about customers. It's very similar to having a row inside of a spreadsheet. As a matter of fact, it's the same thing. Now there's different ways that you can add records to a database, and the most common is to go under the records menu that you see here. And you can choose new records or the absolute most common way to do it is just to use the short keys. I'm on a Mac…
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