Glossary of GURL Friday Terms
- Bookmark
- In Netscape, a bit of HTML code that lists a URL, Page Title and Comment for a specific World Wide Web page.
- Button
- An art object on a FileMaker Pro screen that has been defined to run a script or perform some other function when clicked on. See Script below.
- Clicker
- The boxy looking thing that buttons sit on. Some GURL Friday clickers are vertical, some horizontal.
- Database
- A useful analogy for understanding databases may be that of a manila folder full of preprinted forms, such as job application forms or tax returns.
- A database is like the folder. Each record is like an individual form. Each database field is a block on a form.
- Field
- An area of the screen where you enter information. In a database, a field is technically the definition that creates, names, and remembers a tab-marked string of text. But you didn't want to know that much about it, did you? Just think of it as a chunk of text that has a name.
- GF-URL
- One record in your GURL Friday database. Remember that a Web URL may point to a sound file or a particular part of a Web page or an Email form or many other Web things. So the term "Bookmark" is a bit confining.
- Record
- A set of fields. Every record in a database (such as GURL Friday) is a collection of every field that has been created for that database. Some fields may be empty in any given record.
- The ability to compile all the information from a specific field or fields and pull them it up at will is what makes a database so darn handy.
- Screen
- A FileMaker Pro layout. Fields and layouts are independent, that is, copies of the same field can be placed on many different layouts.
- Script
- A set of FileMaker Pro commands and functions that have been saved and can be automatically invoked by clicking a button.
- URL
- The acronym for "Uniform Resource Locator," a unique pathway to any text, image, or multimedia object on the internet.