14.10.2013 Views

FileMaker Pro 4.1 Mac User's Guide

FileMaker Pro 4.1 Mac User's Guide

FileMaker Pro 4.1 Mac User's Guide

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

10-34 <strong>FileMaker</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> User’s <strong>Guide</strong><br />

Deleting related records<br />

?<br />

While browsing through records in a master file, you can delete records<br />

from a related file when one or both of the options for deleting records<br />

are selected.<br />

Important You can’t undo deleting data or records. Before deleting,<br />

consider making a backup copy of your files.<br />

To delete records, in Browse mode, choose Delete Record from the Mode<br />

menu. (See “Deleting records” on page 4-29.) <strong>FileMaker</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> deletes<br />

information based on the following:<br />

1 When a portal row is selected (by clicking inside the row but outside<br />

any fields in the row) and Allow deletion of portal records is selected in<br />

the Portal Setup dialog box, <strong>FileMaker</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> deletes the associated<br />

related record. (See “Creating a portal to hold related fields” on page<br />

10-23.)<br />

1 When anything other than a portal row is selected, <strong>FileMaker</strong> <strong>Pro</strong><br />

deletes the master record. If When deleting records in this file, also delete<br />

related records is selected in the Edit Relationship dialog box, all<br />

related records are also deleted. (See “Defining relationships for a<br />

relational database” on page 10-21.)<br />

Note Delete All deletes the records in the found set of the master file. If<br />

When deleting records in this file, also delete related records is selected for the<br />

relationship, <strong>FileMaker</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> also deletes the related records.<br />

Choose <strong>FileMaker</strong> Help Index from the or Help menu, and then type:<br />

E related records<br />

Finding and omitting related records<br />

You can include related fields in find criteria when you find records in a<br />

master file. (For more information, see “Finding information” on page<br />

4-19 and “Omitting records” on page 4-26.)<br />

When you find records using related fields in a portal, <strong>FileMaker</strong> <strong>Pro</strong><br />

displays all records related to the found set of records in the master file,<br />

not just related records that satisfy the find criteria. For example,<br />

suppose you search for records whose Item field (which is in a portal)<br />

contains Computer. The found set includes all records in the master file<br />

that contain Computer in any row of the portal.

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!