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Apply field options and use remote container storage

Apply field options and use remote container storage - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Apply field options and use remote container storage

- [Voiceover] So we've talked about, in a previous movie, how we can define container fields inside of our FileMaker databases and we can put all sorts of interesting documents inside of those. Images, any kind of binary data, movies, and so on. But we also looked at inserting files in there and we noticed that some of these options are grayed out and we also noticed that when I drag, for example, a media file, like a movie, into a container field, I just see the name of the file and an icon that represents a QuickTime movie. But I promised that you could actually preview these things. So if I delete that, let's take a look at a way that we can change the settings on a container field. So if I go into Layout Mode, and I select this company logo, I'll delete the field picker. You can do so if yours is open as well. And I'm gonna go under View to Inspector. Now, your Inspector may have already showed up when you went into Layout Mode. If so, then you don't have to open another one. But…

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