From the course: FileMaker Pro 14 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Using get functions

Using get functions - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

From the course: FileMaker Pro 14 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Using get functions

- "Get" functions are a rare breed of calculation function in FileMaker, because really what they do is they pull environmental information, which means they're pulling information either about the session that you're in, the version of FileMaker, or let's say, the version of FileMaker Go, for that matter, that you're using to access the database, and then different things about the database session itself. Let's take a look at what these are, to give you an idea. The good news is, they're extremely easy to integrate because they have no paramaters. So there's really nothing for you do to other than pick the right "Get" function. Let's go into "Manage", "Database", go to the "GetCalc", and we'll hit "Options" here, and I'm going to filter these just to "Get" functions. You'll see that they don't have any parameters, they just kind of stand on their own. And the idea behind them is that they're just going to pull some value. This is a placeholder for the value, in this case, of what…

Contents