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Sorting with a single piece of criteria

Sorting with a single piece of criteria - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Sorting with a single piece of criteria

- In most of the exercises in this title, we've been working with multiple records, but you may be noticing as we open up each one of these files, that the records are in some kind of arbitrary order. It's not in alphabetical order, it's not by name, or by year. What's happening is that when you first open up a FileMaker file and look at multiple records, it's going to give you those records in the order in which they were originally added to the database. So these are the order in which they were added, first this record, that record, so on and so on. But in the cases of reporting, or printing, or exporting or even just viewing the data, that might not always be the desired order. So I'm gonna show you how to sort, or reorder these records. So first you wanna invoke the Sort dialog window. You can do that a number of different ways, you can go under the Records menu and choose Sort Records, or you can go to this button here and choose Sort, or the common way to do it is to use the…

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