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Using the New Window script step

Using the New Window script step - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Using the New Window script step

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- [Instructor] Creating new windows in FileMaker is something that a lot of users do all the time. As a matter of fact, if you're not familiar with how to do that, you just go under the window menu to new window, that'll create two different windows in the same session. You can navigate two different layouts within those if you'd like to, and a lot of users really appreciate that type of experience. But new windows can also be used within your scripts to do things like create custom dialog windows or dialogs that your users can interact with, and I'm going to show you an example of how you can do that. But first, let's talk about what we want to accomplish here. I'm on the invoice detail layout, and I can create a new invoice record, and when I do that I can pick from one of my existing customers from the list and then that will pull in all the related information from the customer onto this invoice. However, what happens if the customer is not on that list? Well now, the user might…

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