Filemaker Pro 8.5 Educational Maintenance T3 TJ083LL/A User Manual

Appendix A

  

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Any layout object (a 3-D rectangle with a text label if created by the Button tool) that 
performs a specified script in Browse or Find modes.

The amount of memory assigned to FileMaker Pro. A larger cache size increases 
performance. A smaller cache size saves data to the hard disk more frequently, offering 
greater protection in case of a system crash.

A field that returns the result of a calculation of values. You can create a formula for the 
calculation using functions, constants, operators, and information from other fields in the 
same record.

A system of codes or tags that define how a web browser displays information in a web 
page. Cascading style sheets provide more control over the layout and appearance of 
web pages than HTML. Cascading style sheets work like templates for web pages. If a 
web page contains cascading style sheets, users must view it in a browser that supports 
cascading style sheets.

The specification for communication between an HTTP server and server gateway 
programs, which is supported by most servers.

The character set or code page of a file. If necessary, you can specify a character set to 
be used when importing, exporting, indexing, sorting, and spell-checking files. FileMaker 
supports ASCII, Windows ANSI, Macintosh, Japanese (Shift-JIS), Unicode UTF-8, 
Unicode UTF-16, and Unicode UTF-16 Windows.

A user that opens a database file that is shared on a network, published in a browser, or 
shared via ODBC/JDBC. FileMaker Network settings and privileges determine how clients 
interact with databases hosted through FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server, and FileMaker 
Server Advanced.

The application that requests data (using SQL) from a data source (using ODBC or 
JDBC). Also, FileMaker Pro is a client application when it accesses a database hosted by 
FileMaker Server.