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Creating quick charts in table view

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Creating quick charts in table view

- [Voiceover] In FileMaker's table view, you can allow your users to create their own chart reports on the fly without you having to build a layout for them. This concept is referred to as Quick Charts, and with a little bit of guidance your users can create and print Quick Charts even while staying in Browse mode. So first you're going to want to have a layout in your database that contains as many fields as you want the users to be able to work with. And then present that layout in table view. You can even train your users to go to any list view that they see, and just to choose table view, which can also be done under View and View as Table. This won't affect the layout for any other users that are in the system because this will be session-based, which means that any changes that you see here will only be visible to the user within their own session. So if you want to chart group data, you're going to want to start by sorting by one of these columns. So here we are in browse mode.…

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