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Using get functions

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Using get functions

Get functions are a rare breed of function because they pull information about either the session that you are in, in FileMaker and a session refers to when you login, and you logout and everything that happens in between or the application, for an instance the version of FileMaker or even if you are in FileMaker Go or accessing from the web that type of thing or information about your Operating System. For example, not just whether you are using Mac or PC or what Operating System level, but also things like what time is it on your time clock and information from the calendars and time of day, you know those type things. But these could be really useful if you need to extract this type of info, and then you have these functions available to you in your scripts. Now we saw this when we were talking about Layouts because there is way that you can drop and merge fields that use Get functions as well. So, I would recommend watching the movie in this title on using merge functions inside…

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