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Using script parameters, set field, and error capture

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Using script parameters, set field, and error capture

- [Tutor] In this video, I'm going to start off by asking a question. You'll notice that I've got all these buttons across the top of the screen and when you click on each one of them, you'll find that it will go and search for the matching last name, so for example, when I click on I, it goes and finds all the Is, H, all the Hs, N, all the Ns, you get the idea. So my question is, how many different scripts are required in order for that to happen? I think I heard you say 26. Let's go check our script workspace. There's only one script here, the Quickfind script. Well, how's that possible? Well, first of all, let's go into Layout Mode and see how these are set up. So you'll notice that if I double click on the A, the first thing we learn here is that a piece of text, or a simple character in text can be a button, that runs a script and here we see that this action is running a script and it's the Quickfind script. Let's click on this little button here and I want to point out…

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