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Deciding what fields you will need

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Deciding what fields you will need

Like other databases, a FileMaker Pro database is presented to the developer as a collection of tables each containing a number of fields. If you've worked with databases in other environments, you maybe accustomed to the term columns instead of fields. But in FileMaker Pro, these attributes that describe a table are called fields. A physical file can hold a limitless number of tables, and each table can effectively have a limitless number of fields defined. You manage all of these in the File > Manage Database window under the Fields option. A field in FileMaker Pro may be viewed as a slot that can hold information specific to a single database record. The value that's stored in a field should be thought of as an attribute of the entity represented by the table it's defined within. We can see some examples of fields in the Products table. We'll notice that there are various different fields already defined because we imported these over from another database. We'll see that there are…

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