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Exporting data

Exporting data - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Exporting data

- [Instructor] So FileMaker has a ton of that you can share data that's inside your custom app For example, you can host it on FileMaker Server, treat it as a web service and people can connect to your data through the FileMaker Data API. You can host it on FileMaker Server and have another application connect to it through the ODBC connection. You can even have other FileMaker files connect and share data between them. But let's say sometimes you just want to dump some data out of your database and have it imported into another system, specifically if you don't have one of those options I just mentioned available. Say for example, somebody wants to get all of my customer records out, so they can import it into in another application. So in that case, I would open up my FileMaker file, First of all, I have to go to a layout that's based So in my example, I mentioned I want to export customer data for a mail campaign. So I'm going to go to a layout that's based on the customer table…

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