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Adding find criteria to a script

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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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