24. Mobile Functions

Mark Conway Munro¹

(1)Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Mobile functions are used to get information that is specific to a mobile device running a database on FileMaker Go.

Mobile Function Reference

FileMaker provides the following built-in mobile functions :

The Location function returns the location of an iOS device running FileMaker Go.

Format

Without optional parameters:

Location ( accuracy )

An optional parameter can be added to override the default timeout:

Location ( accuracy ; timeout )

Parameters

accuracy = a numeric expression or field that contains a number ...

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