Chapter 23. Exporting Data from FileMaker

In this chapter

Getting Out What You Put In

The Basic Mechanics of Exporting

Export File Formats

Formatting Exported Data

Exporting Related Fields

Exporting Grouped Data

Exporting to Fixed-Width Formats

Working with Large Fields and Container Fields

Scripted Exports

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, the best choice is simply to export the data into some specific format so that another program can import that data and work with it using different tools than might be available in ...

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