Field options: Auto-enter

- Developers will often design a database so that … some fields are automatically populated with default data … when a user creates a new record in the database. … which is where we can set these up, is only available … you'll notice that the Options button is grayed out. … All I have to do is hit Create in order for that Options … to be available to us. … that you're presented with is something called Auto-Enter. … FileMaker allows developers to choose from various different … options to automatically populate contents or … when a record is created. … And you'll find that some of the default fields … that were created for us are great examples of these. … in FileMaker Pro, you'll understand how important … a PrimaryKey Field is. … If we click on the Options on our PrimaryKey Field … a new record is created. … That's one methodology for insuring that every record … in our database has a unique value in it, … and that's the role of a PrimaryKey Field. … it will automatically increment a new value in this field. …