I am VERY new to filemaker and playing around with filemaker pro and I need it to do the following things:

1) Store all my contacts (done, this one was easy)

2) Build a form for sample orders, (one for buttons, and one for zippers: again this is fairly easy..)

a) what I can't figure out is how to be able to make a field where I can type in the customer name, filemaker searches for it in the contacts database and then populates the name and ship to and bill to addresses

is there a way to use the starter solutions and add a field that will pull from the contacts database to populate customer names, bill to and ship to addresses?

Thanks!!!

You need to enter FIND mode. This will show all the fields on the layoit as empty entry points. See the help guide for more.

I am VERY new to filemaker and playing around with filemaker pro

You need to enter FIND mode. This will show all the fields on the layoit as empty entry points. See the help guide for more.

You need to read your User Manual, and study about relationships.

IdealData suggested how to do a find, but you will find more information about that subject covered in the Manual and Online Help that is available when FileMaker is open.

You might try using the Quick FInd for those fields that are on your current layout or see this for Finding records .

If I am reading your question correctly, you should also study up on Relationships.

Lee

is there a way to use the starter solutions and add a field that will pull from the contacts database to populate customer names, bill to and ship to addresses?

The invoicing starter solution does that.