Documenting database schemas (FileMaker Pro Advanced)Use the Database Design Report feature to document the schema of your database and publish it in to an HTML or XML file.
• choose which elements (fields, relationships, scripts, and so on) and tables of the database to documentA Database Design Report in XML format contains the same information, ready to be transformed into the format you require. You can create tools that can use the Database Design Report XML to analyze or process the structure of databases. For more information, download the FileMaker Pro Advanced Database Design Report XML Output Grammar PDF, available at http://www.filemaker.com/documentation.
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3. In the Available Files list, clear any files that you want to exclude from the report by clearing the checkbox associated with the file.
4. The tables in the file appear in the Include fields from tables in selected file list. You can then deselect any table in the list.
5. From Include in report, clear elements that you want to exclude from the report.
6. If you prefer to publish the report in XML format instead of the default HTML, select XML in the Report Format section.
7. If you do not want the report to automatically open when done, clear Automatically open report when done in the File Handling section.
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• If you have any inactive accounts that have a blank password, the HTML report displays a password mask ******. In the XML report, the emptyPassword="" node will report FALSE. To get accurate password information from these inactive accounts, make the accounts active and choose View Source.