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Create tables in the managing tables window

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Create tables in the managing tables window

- [Voiceover] So the time has finally arrived, we can now start to create our new database from scratch. We've already done a little bit of the process where we've determined which tables we need. In the previous exercise we determined that we're gonna need a customer table, an invoice table and a product table. And that's because we have these three discreet types of data that we want to store inside one single file. So we need for somewhere to store them, and we need somewhere so we can define attributes about them in the form of fields. So how do we start by creating our new app? So we'll go under File, and I'll say New Solution, and I'm gonna call this Untitled and I'm just gonna save it to my Desktop. The very first thing that Filemaker asks us to do is to define tables. Now it had to define at least one table or it couldn't open up Filemaker for us. So what it did is it created a table called Untitled because that's what we called our database. But if you hit this little Manage…

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