From the course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training (2019)
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Adding find criteria to a script: Static finds - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training (2019)
Adding find criteria to a script: Static finds
- [Instructor] Finding records is one of the most common tasks that users perform in FileMaker. As a result, finding records is also a common action that scripts are called on to perform. Now, scripts can be set up to perform any search that the users preform manually, and even some that they cannot perform, actually. And it really breaks into two different types of finds. a static find, where we're actually going to build in the search parameters into our script so that the user does not have to interact with the system to create the found set. you see what we're doing here is printing a custom welcome letter. And in this case, what we're doing is we're navigating to a record. You can see that when we're printing, that we're printing the current record in a certain view. I'm going to change that to Records Being Browsed. Of course, if you have a print driver installed, I don't have a print driver installed in this machine. and restore it. Now, the reason I would want to do that is…
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What are scripts and script steps?3m 41s
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Assigning script steps to buttons5m 3s
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Touring the Script Workspace2m 35s
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Creating multiline scripts2m 2s
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Creating multiline scripts: Printing in scripts3m 9s
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Creating multiline scripts: Custom dialogs3m 29s
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Adding find criteria to a script: Static finds4m 41s
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Adding find criteria to a script: User specified finds3m 43s
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Using the New Window script step5m 53s
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Understanding the If script step1m 47s
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Adding the If script step to a script5m 55s
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