Filemaker Pro 9 07

Question 1

1. p 108. You’ll use SERIAL NUMBERS more often when:

Answer 1

CONNECTING MULTIPLE TABLES.

Question 2

2. When you select the option VALUE FROM LAST VISITED RECORD, where will the data come from?

Answer 2

it will come from the LAST RECORD YOU CLICKED IN OR OPENED; NOT necessarily the PREVIOUS record in the table you are using.

Question 3

3. p 110. In the AUTO ENTER:DATA option, what type of info can you enter?

Answer 3

Text, Date, Time, and Timestamp values

Question 4

4. AUTO ENTER: CALCULATED VALUE. What is the use of this option?

Answer 4

It allows you to program it to do a calculation, BUT YOU CAN ALSO CHANGE THE FIELD if you want to.
CALCULATION FIELDS, on the other hand, always create their OWN, UNCHANGEABLE VALUES.

Question 5

5. AUTO ENTER: LOOKED UP VALUE. What does this option do?

Answer 5

It allows FM to automatically fetch a value from some record in ANOTHER table and plop it in this field.
THIS IS CALLED A LOOKUP.

Question 6

6. PROHIBIT MODIFICATION OF VALUE DURING DATA ENTRY prevents you from:

Answer 6

changing a value that should stay the way it was entered forever, such as when using the CREATION and MODIFICATION options