As you would expect, this search limits the fields you see as you type. This is a feature developers have been asking for since FileMaker made the Feature Request website. If you still have a lot of fields and don’t want to scroll through the dropdown, you can search for it. This dropdown is great because you don’t have to drag a selected field up and down the list in search of the desired source. The assumption is that you have already assigned those fields correctly, and don’t want to scroll through them to find what you are looking for. The dropdown is sorted alphabetically, with the exception that any field already selected for importing (indicated by a green arrow for import and a blue equal sign for matching) will already be at the bottom of the list. You can select the destination field from a dropdown menu of all fields in the table. This raises the question “how do you find the target field?” You find it with a dropdown.
This eliminates the endless scroll for a field at the bottom. Therefore, if you are importing from a table of 10 fields into a table with 100 fields, you will only see 10 fields in the list. The second thing developers will notice is that the list of fields is limited by the number of fields from the table being imported. The UI has been made to fit with what you would expect from current applications. There are several changes that FileMaker 18 brings to importing, including a pretty new design that doesn’t trigger our usual import-triggered eye twitching.Īnyone familiar with importing in older versions of FileMaker will probably notice two things right away, the first being that the interface looks nicer. Setting up imports isn’t something that happens all the time, but it happens frequently enough that the new import interface in FileMaker 18 is very welcome.
You can spend a long time in search of the right field, slowly dragging the field to the top of the list, losing the field halfway up, then searching again. Many of us have been in a situation where we are moving data from a table with dozens of fields into another where none of the fields share the same name. I know I’m not alone in that one my long-term irritations with FileMaker has been importing data.
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