Defining fields

In order to add fields to your database, you must first determine what tables you'll have…and then what fields will describe those tables and then finally, what types of fields each will be.…There are two ways that you can define fields in FileMaker Pro. You can define fields…in quick view, like we are looking at here, but we covered that in the Creating New Database…using a Spreadsheet Format video. So feel free to review that movie for more instruction.…The second and more standard method of defining fields is through the Manage Database dialog…which we get to under File > Manage and Database. In addition to providing a central location…for creating and editing fields in any table, the Manage Database dialog also provides tabs…for working with tables and relationships. So it's a good place to add fields that you…have already listed out so you can do many at once. In this movie, I'm actually going…to add all of the fields to the Invoice and Customer tables, and I am going to use the…types that we discussed in previous movies. But first, before I start defining fields,…