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Chapter 20. Exporting Data from FileMaker

In this chapter

• Getting Out What You Put In 596

• The Basic Mechanics of Exporting 596

• Export File Formats 599

• Formatting Exported Data 602

• Exporting Related Fields 602

• Exporting Grouped Data 604

• Exporting to Fixed-Width Formats 606

• Working with Large Fields and Container Fields 607

• Scripted Exports 607

• Accessing FileMaker Data Using ODBC and JDBC 610

• Using FileMaker Pro as an ODBC Client 620

• Troubleshooting 626

• FileMaker Extra: Accessing FileMaker Data via JDBC 627

Getting Out What You Put In

Much of this book concentrates on tools for data entry—for getting data into a database system. But that information often needs to be extracted again. Sometimes the extraction takes the form of a report of some kind. At other times ...