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Importing data from FileMaker - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training
Importing data from FileMaker
- [Instructor] One of the key values of a FileMaker custom app is to store and manage a bunch of different data and the best way to get large amounts of data into your app is to do what's called an import. So for example in this case, I have a products table and that products table does not have any records in it. And in our example, let's say there's another application that has a lot of products data and I want to migrate that data from that application into FileMaker. Now, unfortunately that other application doesn't let us do things like connect via ODBC or connect via API which are both native functions in FileMaker that can extract data from other applications. So in this case, let's say we just have to dump data out of this other application so that FileMaker can import it. First, you'll need to export that data in a format that FileMaker supports for import functions. For example, other FileMaker Pro Advanced files,…
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