# Getting Started Guide - instructions completely inaccurate

**URL:** <https://www.five.org/t/getting-started-guide-instructions-completely-inaccurate/285>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 3, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://www.five.org/t/getting-started-guide-instructions-completely-inaccurate/285 "2023-12-03T00:11:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris7of9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@Chris7of9](https://www.five.org/u/Chris7of9)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://www.five.org/t/getting-started-guide-instructions-completely-inaccurate/285/1 "2023-12-03T00:11:12Z")

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So wishing to start from the beginning, opened the Getting Started Guide and trying to follow the instructions.  
The guide does not relate to the program menu options, so how is a newbie meant to find out how FIVE works.  
This really is very poor.  
Is there an updated i.e. correct version of the Getting Started instructions available?

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**Author:** ![Dom\_Five.Co](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/www.five.org/dom_five.co/32/38_2.png) [@Dom\_Five.Co](https://www.five.org/u/Dom_Five.Co)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://www.five.org/t/getting-started-guide-instructions-completely-inaccurate/285/2 "2023-12-03T02:56:40Z")

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Hi Chris,

there’s a seven-step YouTube video tutorial that you can follow here:

[Creating A Membership App | Step 1: Database Tables | Five.Co - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcRAhyw9rmI&list=PLerqEA4wsHa2vY5vW3fK1Nkl4Npxn5MKQ)

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**Author:** ![Chris7of9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@Chris7of9](https://www.five.org/u/Chris7of9)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.five.org/t/getting-started-guide-instructions-completely-inaccurate/285/3 "2023-12-03T15:58:22Z")

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Seriously?

That U-Tube video is appalling;-

- The quality of the video is very poor
- The diction of the commentator is very poor
- The example he is trying to talk about is not completed, and then erased, so the whole video is about building a table with 4 fields and showing that FIVE can automatically generate a primary key – hardly amazing. This can be done in access, just as quick and with better support.

Nobody can really learn how FIVE is meant o work to enable a developer to build a relational database and check and if necessary, correct the keys that are auto generated.

This has to be one of the worse adverts for a program that I have seen in a long time.

Do you actually have any real-life companies that use this software?

Regards,

Chris

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**Author:** ![Dom\_Five.Co](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/www.five.org/dom_five.co/32/38_2.png) [@Dom\_Five.Co](https://www.five.org/u/Dom_Five.Co)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 2:13am UTC](https://www.five.org/t/getting-started-guide-instructions-completely-inaccurate/285/4 "2023-12-04T02:13:44Z")

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Hi Chris,

the video is part of a YouTube playlist that takes you through the steps of building an app in Five, which I’d encourage you to watch from video 1 through to video 7. I have also emailed you separately to connect with you one-on-one in case you’d like to discuss your use case with us in more detail.

Best

Dom