A Production Manager wanted to try tracking production tasks based on the image, and to this end a pair of files was created, but he left the company before this project ever got off the ground.
The file InvLineItems became large enough to be unweildy, so older records were placed in a read-only clone and deleted from the live editable copy.
In New Jersey, a cost estimating system used to obtain numbers for the salespeople to use in their proposals, had been written in the Lotus 123 spreadsheet application, and this was ported to FileMaker and directly connected to Sales Trac (the sales / proposal system used in NJ).