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Saving find requests

Saving find requests - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Saving find requests

Training your users on how to search against data in your database is a critical task for them to be able to get the most out of FileMaker Pro. We've talked about a couple of different ways that you can search against data and browse mode, right clicking and find matching records or going into the Quick Find. But, if we go to View Customize Toolbar, you see we got this option called Save Finds. I'm going to add that to my browse mode up here on top. The saved finds you might already have on your toolbar in find mode, but I'm going to add it here in browse mode and show you how we can use this feature. So you'll notice if you click and hold down the Saved Find icon, we've got a couple of different options. None of them have any data in them right now, but the idea is that we can create found sets. And then save those, so that next time that I'm using this database, I can retrieve those found sets. So, if it's something that your users are often searching on, and they don't want to have…

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