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Understand field types

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Understand field types

- [Voiceover] Once you have your list of attributes and you wanna define them as fields inside your Filemaker database there's one last step that you need to do before you actually go and make them fields. If you look inside Filemaker under manage, database, and if we look at products for example you'll see we've got this column here called type and you'll see that there are various different types assigned to each one of these fields. As a matter of fact if you try to create a field, down here just by entering just the field name, you must select one of the types before you can actually create it. So understanding not only what fields you have, but assigning types to them is gonna be critically important. So really you wanna understand which of these types need to be assigned to each one of your fields and you should do that ahead of time because you really gotta choose that as you define it anyways. So let's take a look at the different field types that we have available to us. The…

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