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© Mark Conway Munro 2017

Mark Conway Munro, Learn FileMaker Pro 16, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2863-0_23

23. Design Functions

Mark Conway Munro¹

(1)Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Design functions are used to acquire information about the structure of a database file.

Design Function Reference

FileMaker provides the following built-in design functions :

DatabaseNames
FieldBounds
FieldComment
FieldIDs
FieldNames
FieldRepetitions
FieldStyle
FieldType
GetNextSerialValue
LayoutIDs
LayoutNames
LayoutObjectName
RelationInfo
ScriptIDs
ScriptNames
TableIDs
TableNames
ValueListIDs
ValueListItems
ValueListNames
WindowNames

DatabaseNames

The DatabaseNames function returns a list of database files currently open.

Format

DatabaseNames ...

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