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Using script parameters, set field, and error capture - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: Learning FileMaker 16
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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What are scripts and script steps?2m 43s
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Assigning script steps to buttons4m 2s
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Touring the Script workspace4m 11s
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Creating multiline scripts6m 58s
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Adding find criteria to a script7m 27s
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Using new window script step8m
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Understanding the "If" script step5m 41s
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Using script parameters, set field, and error capture5m 10s
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Sending emails in your scripts6m 4s
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Importing scripts from other files3m 7s
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