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Adding find criteria to a script

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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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