Glossary

Portal - see entry: Excerpt Markus SchallMarkus Schall has been developing individual databases, interfaces and business applications based on Claris FileMaker since 1994. He is a Claris partner, FMM Award winner 2011 and developer of the ERP software gFM-Business. In addition

What is a primary key in FileMaker? A primary key is a field within a data table with which a data record (tuple) of a relation (related table) can be uniquely identified. The primary key is the own

What is project management? With project management software, any project can be planned and all participants and required processes and documents can be stored centrally within a project data record. Software for managing projects

What is process optimization? Process optimization is a company's efforts to continuously improve existing operating processes in order to increase the efficiency of workflows. Process optimization is an element of process management that

What is an invoicing program? An invoice program is generally understood to be software that can be used to create accounting documents based on customer and item data. An invoicing program therefore contains various databases

What is a tab control in FileMaker? A tab control is a layout object in a FileMaker database that can be equipped with several different tabs. Each tab contains its own layout in the dimensions

What is a FileMaker Runtime? A FileMaker Runtime is a database solution created with FileMaker Pro Advanced that does not require an additional license of FileMaker Pro to run. The

The quick search in gFM-Business Since version 13, the FileMaker platform has had a function for the quick search of data records. The search can be performed for any (calculated) expression. Mark

What is an interface in relation to FileMaker? An interface is the generic term for the exchange of data between different systems. Most software programs have various interfaces. If you want to exchange data

What is a script in FileMaker? A script can be used to automate any process in a FileMaker database. FileMaker supports the creation of any number of scripts per database, which in turn (theoretically) contain any number of commands

What is a script trigger in FileMaker? Script triggers in FileMaker are used to automatically execute a script when certain user interactions occur. Script triggers can be assigned to objects, layouts and in the file options. They can be defined,

What is page view mode in FileMaker? Page view mode is one of the four display modes in FileMaker: Browse mode, Find mode, Layout mode and Page view mode. It is used to display the data on a layout in approximately the same