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Use container fields in your FileMaker app - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 15 Essential Training
Use container fields in your FileMaker app
- [Voiceover] Container fields are an important building block for any FileMaker custom app in which you want to store and/or display more than just text, numbers, dates, and times. Container fields are a field just like all the other fields in FileMaker, but they allow you to store binary data. What does that mean? We could store and display digital images or videos. We could play music and sound. We could store electronic documents such as PDF or Excel or Word files, or even packaged documents like zipped up folders' worth of files. All this can be stored inside of a single container field. Plus container fields, when you use them on FileMaker Go, have all sorts of really compelling features like you can capture bar codes or capture signatures, or playback information or take pictures or store movies or whatever, all of that by just placing this field that's a container field. So what is container field really mean? Well, it's just a field like you see here in our exercise file, in…
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