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Saving find requests

Saving find requests - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Saving find requests

FileMaker actually has a third way that you can perform a Find in Browse mode, and it's a feature that's called Saved Finds. You see here that we have this Layout Status Bar across the top of our screen. If you don't already have it, we can add an icon to it that's called Saved Finds. So if we go into the Status toolbar and either right-click or Ctrl-click on it, or go into View > Customize Layout toolbar, we can add the Saved Finds icon by dragging it up to the toolbar. By the way, if you go into Find mode, that won't show up over here, but you'll notice it over on the far right- hand corner. But you don't actually need to be in Find mode to be able to do the finds, so if you want to add it to your Browse mode Status toolbar, it can be a very useful tool for you. So let's talk about how this works. If we click and hold the Saved Find, you'll notice that it's got a couple different options on here, Save Current Find or Edit any existing ones. This feature is specific to the user…

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