Previous versions of FileMaker created no new fields for you. It was up to you to add them yourself, and if you had a standard set of fields that you used for every table, you had to take a trip to a different table and copy / paste them into your new table (or just enter them in by hand and risk missing something important). Now with FileMaker 17, you can make that process automatic… all it takes is an XML file in the right place on your hard drive.
If you create a new table in a FileMaker 17 file, you might notice that a few fields were created automatically for you:
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