From the course: FileMaker Pro 14 Essential Training
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Adding find criteria to a script - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 14 Essential Training
Adding find criteria to a script
- Finding records is one of the most common tasks users perform inside FileMaker solutions. And correspondingly, finding records is also a common action that scripts are called on to perform. Scripts can be set up to perform any search that a user can perform manually and in some cases, even some that cannot be performed manually. So because you can control a scripted search as a developer more easily than you can a manual search scripted searches are often more efficient and reliable. I'm gonna show you a couple of different ways that you can integrate finding records into your scripts. First, one that's fully automated, based on criteria we add into the script, and another one that allows the user to enter in value and then proceed with the script. So for starters, let's go under our scripts menu and we've got our Print Welcome Letter script. So the first thing that we need to do is figure out where in this script we want to have the find happen. So right now we're going to a…
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Understanding scripts and script steps3m 33s
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Assigning script steps to buttons6m 27s
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Touring the Script workspace5m 14s
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Creating multiline scripts7m 56s
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Adding find criteria to a script7m 34s
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Using the New Window script step9m 48s
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Understanding the If script step7m 54s
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Using script parameters3m 48s
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Reviewing the Send Mail script option5m 41s
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