FileMaker Pro 4.1 Mac User's Guide

1-6 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
Access privileges and passwords
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Access privileges and passwords promote file security by controlling
who can use a file and particular fields and layouts, and which tasks they
can do. In the FileMaker Pro Web Companion, a password controls who
can browse and edit a file on the World Wide Web.
A file doesn’t require access privileges and passwords; you can create or
change them as needed. For more information see chapter 7,
“Networking and access privileges” and chapter 11, “Publishing files on
the Web.”
Choose FileMaker Help Index from the or Help menu, and then type:
E access privileges
Using relationships in a database
Whether you create a database with one file (sometimes called a flat-file
database) or many files (a relational database), you can use data from
other files as if the data were in the current file. A file that contains data
used in another file is a related file.
1 To copy data from a related file and store it in the current file, define
a lookup (see “Looking up and displaying data from other files” on
page 10-1).
1 To view and work with data from different files in the current file
without storing that data in the current file, create a relational
database (see “Working with relational databases” on page 10-14).
To learn more about these differences, see “Lookups and relational
databases: a comparison” on page 10-8.
You can publish both flat-file and relational databases on the World
Wide Web using FileMaker Pro Web Companion. For more
information, see chapter 11, “Publishing files on the Web.”