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Creating tables in the managing tables window

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Creating tables in the managing tables window

- Okay, so in previous movies we've determined that we need customer table, an invoice table and a product table in our database that we're gonna build. In this movie, we're gonna talk about how we actually add those tables to our database. Now it's important that we don't skip over the planning part where we determine what tables we need because otherwise, when we get to this stage, we're basically just guessing. So the very first thing we're gonna need to do is finally create a FileMaker solution. So we're gonna go under the File menu in the FileMaker application and we're gonna select New Solution. And this is where we're gonna name our solution and decide where we're gonna save it. I'm just gonna leave it untitled and I'm gonna save it to my desktop. And just by doing that, FileMaker has automatically created our file for us and also created one table. And the reason is because FileMaker needs at least one table because basically its whole lot in life is to store information and…

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