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Cascading Choices in FileMaker 11 Pro Advance

Working with cascading choices in the new(er) FMP seems to be a little weird. My intention is to create a bunch of drop-down lists / pop ups that rely on the previous choice. If a user clicks on a Customer drop-down, the next drop-down (address field) will ONLY have related data for that customer street address. Once you click the cert...

How to change MySQL date format for database?

We are using a MySQL database with FileMaker. It appears that when FileMaker is reading the MySQL tables, it will only accept dates in the format of m/d/y. Is there any way I can get our MySQL database to change its default format to be m/d/y instead of YYYY-MM-DD? I know I can use the DATE_FORMAT() function on individual SELECT queri...

Why does FileMaker Pro show data instead of field names in layout mode?

Why does my FileMaker Pro database show the data in the fields when I enter layout mode? Shouldn't it show the field names? ...