Filemaker Pro 8.5 Educational Maintenance T3 TJ083LL/A User Manual

Appendix A

  

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A key that activates a menu, menu item, or control when used with the ALT key. In 
Windows, this key corresponds to the underlined letter on a menu, command, or dialog 
box option.

Permission to view and work with certain records, fields, layouts, value lists, and scripts 
and to perform selected activities in a file. 

A username and (usually) password that accesses a file with a defined level of privileges. 
There are two pre-defined accounts: Admin and Guest. Admin is a Full Access account 
that can be renamed or deleted. At least one Full Access account that is authenticated via 
FileMaker must be defined for each database file. Guest account is a special account that 
cannot be renamed or deleted, but can be made active or inactive. 

A Windows programming and scripting protocol that allows external control of specific 
commands and actions in FileMaker Pro, including opening and closing FileMaker Pro 
databases, toggling the application's visibility, and performing FileMaker Pro scripts.

A scripting language you can use to control functions of the Mac OS and of applications 
that support AppleScript (often called scriptable applications).

A Mac OS technology that lets applications communicate with one another. FileMaker Pro 
can send and receive Apple events to and from applications that support them.

Alphabetical sequence (A to Z) for words, lowest to highest order for numbers, and 
earliest to latest for dates and times.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard character set used by 
computer systems worldwide (often extended for different alphabets).