
Note To create a new file that contains the data, layouts, scripts, and other elements of the source file, you may want to copy the file instead of exporting data. If you wish, you can change the field to a global field in the exported file. Instead, each exported global field becomes a non-global field that repeats the global field value in each exported record.


See Converting files from FileMaker Pro 11 Advanced and FileMaker Pro 11 and earlier. To import a FileMaker Pro Advanced or FileMaker Pro file created with a previous version, convert the file to the current format first.If you import records from a closed file or an open file that is not displaying any windows, FileMaker Pro Advanced imports all the records, regardless of any found set. (See Finding records.) FileMaker Pro Advanced determines the found set to import from the foreground window in the file.

To import only a portion of the records in a FileMaker Pro Advanced file, open the file and perform a find so that the found set in the current window contains only the records you want to import.To import related data, import data directly from the related table.Repeat the import process for each table that you want to import. During the import process, choose which table in the file that you want to import. If the source FileMaker Pro Advanced file contains multiple tables, you can only import data from a single table at a time.When you import data from another FileMaker Pro Advanced file, you can import data from one table in the source file into one table in the target file.Importing from a FileMaker Pro Advanced file

You can import from and export to files in FileMaker Pro format (FMP12).
