FileMaker® Pro 13 Absolute Beginner’s Guide

5. Importing Records

In This Chapter

• Preparing for the Import

• Selecting the Source File

• File Types Supported

• Field Mapping

• Selecting an Import Action

• Importing the Sample Data

• Import Options Dialog Window

• Import Summary Window

In the previous chapter, you learned how to manually add records to a FileMaker database. However, there may be times when the data that you want to add to your database already exists in another file, such as data in a spreadsheet or in another type of file exported from another application. To avoid manually entering those records, you can use FileMaker’s import function to enter them for you.

In this chapter, you import a large number of records into your Contacts database. If you haven’t already done ...