From the course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training (2019)
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Using Fast Match and Quick Find - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training (2019)
Using Fast Match and Quick Find
- [Instructor] Now this next piece might fall under wacky FileMaker trivia, but there are actually two different ways that you can create found sets in FileMaker while never leaving Browse mode, that's right, you don't need to go into Find mode to create searches. The first of which is called Fast Match and I'm kind of a big fan of it myself. It involves the contextual menu and all you have to do is, focus on a field and then right click, or control click, if you don't have a right click mouse, and then you'll see the contextual menu has an options for find matching records. So I just created a found set based on the value that was in the field I clicked into and I was able to do it without even leaving Browse mode. I use this one almost as often as I do regular searches. The other thing that you can do is use the right click to do a constrain or extend of a found set as well. That I definitely use when I'm creating found sets and then I'm doing constrains, extends, as data mining…
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