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Use get functions

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Use get functions

- [Voiceover] Get functions are a very useful but strange breed of functions, and the main reason for that is because we aren't able to really affect the parameters that they have, so you'll see here, if we go into GetCalc and hit Options, clear out the quote quote, and if we take a look at the Get functions, you'll see that they all have parameters, but the parameters are already telling us what we're gonna see when we get this information. So what FileMaker Get functions do is tell us informatoin about, let's say, the session that we're in. So for example, we can say, what's the name of the logged in user, or what's the found count for this user, or they can tell us information about the copy of FileMaker that we have, what version of FileMaker we're using, or the device that we're using to access the system, or even the operating system that we're on, or frankly, things like the network connection that we have. So there's tons of different things that we can extract about these…

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