The terminology used in this file and documentation is one of a parent/child relationship. O’Reilly members experience live online training, plus books, videos, and digital content from nearly 200 publishers.This database was designed for a particular syncing solution involving a single desktop database and multiple copies of databases on remote devices (other computers or iOS devices). Get FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual now with the O’Reilly learning platform. Once you know about more complex joins, you have the tools you need to start making those multiple table occurrences. FileMaker lets you create as many instances of a table as you need on the graph. You’ll also delve deeper into table occurrences. Order, the Portal Setup dialog box also lets you filter related records You can sort a portal separately from the underlying relationship’s sort Specific, as when you need a customer ID and a dateįield each to match corresponding fields in a related table.

You do that for the same reason youĪdd more criteria to a search: because you want the results to be more When values don’t match, by using an operator other than the “=” sign.Īnd just as you can add more criteria to a search, you can also add But you can also create relationships that work On Viewing the new table’s layout, were of the mostīasic type: they used a single key field pair and the value in those keyįields matched exactly. Your first relationships, like the ones you created Relationships and delve into some of the more powerful features in the Now it’s time to turn your attention back to Your database and creating custom menus-easier. In the previous chapter, you learned how to use the tools inįileMaker Pro Advanced to make your development tasks-like debugging

Chapter 13. Advanced Relationship Techniques

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