HP manual Glossary of Terms Electronic Forms User Guide

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Glossary of Terms Electronic Forms User Guide

Preview

Read-Only

Record

Script

Preview usually refers to a screen mode to see how records will look like when printed.

A Read-Only file cannot be saved, updated or written to. Electronic forms files are located in a Read-Only directory. They must be copied to a directory where the user has read and write priveleges.

A record contains the information you keep about one product, person, or transaction. A record corresponds to a paper form, such as a purchase order, which contains detailed information in many different categories.

A script instructs FileMaker Pro to carry out a sequence of specified tasks for a specific file. Scripts can have subscripts to perform additional tasks.

To build a script you define a set of steps you want the script to perform. When setting up a script, FileMaker Pro does not record your actions as you perform them. You choose steps and build the script based on the current state of the file.

To perform a script, you choose it from the Scripts menu or the Define Scripts dialog box. You can also create buttons in a layout to perform scripts or run specific commands.

Sort	Sorting rearranges records according to the entries in a field or a set of fields.
	FileMaker Pro stores records in the order you add them. You can sort all records or
	a group of found records and then browse, update, or print those records in the new
	sequence. The sort order instructs FileMaker Pro to arrange records in ascending,
	descending, or custom order. FileMaker Pro sorts by the first field in the sort order,
	then by the second, and so on.
	You can sort records in any mode except Find.
Source File	The file that contains the records or information that will be received or imported.
	See also Destination File.
Subdirectory	See Directory
Wildcard	When making a find request, you can use wildcards to find words when you're not
	sure of all the characters. FileMaker Pro looks for the words in text fields and in
	calculation fields with a text result.
Window	A rectangular area on the screen desktop in which applications or documents
	are viewed. Windows can be opened, closed, moved, and resized. Several
	windows can be opened at the same time. Windows can be reduced to an icon
	or enlarged to fill the entire desktop.

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