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Adding find criteria to a script - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: Learning FileMaker 16
Adding find criteria to a script
- [Instructor] Find records in FileMaker is one of the most common tasks that users perform when they're in your FileMaker custom apps. So as a result, finding records is going to also be a common request in the scripts that you're using to automate those tasks. Scripts can be set up to perform any type of search that a user can perform manually. So matter of fact if we go into our script workspace and we go over to the right hand column of the steps you'll see that we have a whole bunch of them here under found sets that work with found sets. So we've got support for constraining found sets, extending found sets, finding matching records, modifying last finds, all sorts of stuff. The one we're going to focus on is performing find. So let's say in the case of printing our customer welcome letter we don't want to just print the welcome letter for the customer record that we're on, we want the script to go and find a whole group of records and then print those as a batch. So let's say…
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What are scripts and script steps?2m 43s
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Assigning script steps to buttons4m 2s
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Touring the Script workspace4m 11s
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Creating multiline scripts6m 58s
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Adding find criteria to a script7m 27s
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Using new window script step8m
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Understanding the "If" script step5m 41s
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Using script parameters, set field, and error capture5m 10s
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Sending emails in your scripts6m 4s
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Importing scripts from other files3m 7s
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