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Define fields

Define fields - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Define fields

- [Voiceover] So when it comes time to actually define the fields inside your FileMaker database, there's actually few different where you can do this. We're going to focus just on doing this in the manage database dialogue, which can be found under file, manage, and database. And you see here we've got the fields tab and we can get an idea and overview of all the different fields we already have in our tables. But there are other places in the user interface where you can create fields on the fly so to speak. These are more for end users, or people that are just working on their own database. I wouldn't really recommend training your users to do this because things can get rather unwieldy. But, if you want to do that or if you're just curious about playing with it yourself, you notice in table view, that's the view that's indicated here by this icon when you're looking at any layout or if you go under the view menu and you choose view as a table. You'll see we have a plus sign there…

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