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Touring the Calculation Dialog window

Touring the Calculation Dialog window - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Touring the Calculation Dialog window

- The first step in understanding how to create your own calculation formulas is to get familiar with FileMaker's calculation dialog window. The calculation dialog window appears in a wide variety of places within FileMaker Pro and it is really one of the primary areas where actual programming comes in to play. So on this video, I'm gonna show you the mechanics of the dialog, so that you have a better understanding when you encounter it in all the different places where you may see it in FileMaker. Now in FileMaker 14, the calculation dialog window has been radically redesigned and it's great. You're gonna love it. So if you've seen it in previous versions it's important that you take a look at this video here to get a quick tour to understand how its been updated. So what we're gonna do is go under Manage to Database and we're going to invoke the dialog window by just creating a calculation field. And again, this is just one of the many areas where calculation formulas come in to…

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