As helpful as long, prefixed TO names are in the list, they're not as much help in the graph, where FileMaker often cuts them off. If you compare the two lists shown here, you can easily see the advantage of this technique. It's even better if the prefix also tells you what the group actually does. The prefix makes them sort together in the list, and serves as a clear reminder of which occurrences go together. It's extra confusing when you have several occurrences of the same table with similar names"Which Line Items am I supposed to use here?"Ī good way to keep things straight is to give the same prefix to every table occurrence in a group. Although the list is always in alphabetical order, it gets lengthy once you start duplicating TOs, and it can be hard to find what you're looking for. There are many places in FileMaker where you see a list of occurrences on your graph. When you create a new group of interrelated table occurrences, it's helpful to choose good names. You simply put a table occurrence from your external file onto your relationship graph, which defines its perspective in relation to all your other tables. Using the data tunneling techniques discussed in the previous section, you connect tables from another file (often called an external database) without the overhead of copying all that data into your file.
In FileMaker, you can make two databases work together as easily as you work with any other multiple tables.
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