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Using container fields in your FileMaker App

Using container fields in your FileMaker App - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Using container fields in your FileMaker App

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- [Narrator] Container fields are an important building block for any FileMaker custom app, in which you want to store and/or display more than just text, numbers, dates, and times. As a matter of fact, container fields are really the feature that sets FileMaker apart from other database development platforms. And that's because with container fields, you can store and display any binary format. That includes digit images, videos, pdf files, anything you want. You can also play back these files, like for example music, or any kind of audio file, movie files, you can play those right inside the FileMaker layout in the field. And you can store electronic documents, pdf, Excel, Word, really any binary file format. So these container fields are really versatile, and they make FileMaker a great platform for asite management and document management, and all sorts of stuff that other database applications have a hard time doing. So if we look at our exercise file and we go under the hood…

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