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Assigning script steps to buttons

Assigning script steps to buttons - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Assigning script steps to buttons

- [Instructor] If you're just starting to learn scripting in FileMaker, one of the easiest ways to do that is to assign a single script step And then in turn, those objects act as buttons, so that when they're pressed, or when a user the action that you assigned to it. Pretty simple. So I'm going to show you a couple examples of that to get you familiar with how script steps work. We'll go into layout mode and I'll pick a layout object. I'm going to pick a button object. I have this button object that's already created on screen here. Happens to be locked, so I'll just go ahead and unlock it, since we cannot assign a script action to a button that's locked. by clicking the button tool on the top part of our screen. We'll just concentrate on the one that we've got here. So I'm going to double click on this, and you can double click on any button that's already on screen, and if you want to attach a action to a layout object that is not a button, A field, a field label, a piece of text,…

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