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Sorting with related fields

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Sorting with related fields

When you're looking at data inside FileMaker the layout which you are looking at is based on a table so that means that most of the data that you're seeing on screen actually lives inside that table, or more specifically these are fields that were defined in this table. We discussed this a bit in the relationships chapter, and we'll also talk more about this concept later in the movie. But for right now one of the things that we are going to discuss is how you can play something that's called a related field on a layout. That's given the assumption that if you look at the invoice lists in Layout mode you'll actually see an example of this. Notice that all these different fields, and I'll go down, and I'll hit zoom to 150 in the bottom left-hand corner. So that we can see that most of the fields are all fields that are defined inside the Invoice Table, and we know that because this one over here if you look closely has a Double Colon on it, I'll increase that to 200. That indicates…

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