Chapter 17FileMaker Value Lists

Now that you are familiar with searching, creating, and editing records in a FileMaker database, it is time to use value lists, an excellent feature of FileMaker. Value lists are relatively unusual within relational databases at this time, and thus this feature is not readily integrated into PHP although it is easily usable with a bit of PHP and HTML.

What Are FileMaker Value Lists?

Value lists within a FileMaker database are used to populate a drop-down menu, a radio button set, or a check box set with values. Often the values are constant, such as a yes/no selection for a radio button set, which allows FileMaker to construct nice input elements for those values. At other times, those values are dynamic, such ...

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