I am new to Filemaker Pro and have successfully built a “Contacts’ database but am struggling to produce a “Project’ database. I want to store for each Customer the details of the on-going projects such as  all the correspondence, emails, images and drawings relating to the project. I do not have a problem setting up the  Customer details etc. but the storage element i.e. how do I get the external files into Filemaker, is giving me a problem. Can any one advise me please?

What is giving you a problem?  What are you trying?

 

External files can be stored in the database through container fields.  If you have a lot of them, read up on the "remote container" feature.

So let us know what you  have tried and what problems it is giving you and we can help

I store PDF's and also scan directly into a filemaker database. 

For scanning I was using Insidescan but the developer has lost interest in it and it has not been update in years.

Currently I am using Scantango with a Fujitsu scanner and it works very well