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25. Common Scripting Tasks

Mark Conway Munro1  
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Lewisburg, PA, USA
 
FileMaker ships with over 180 built-in script steps that can perform just about any database task you can imagine. In this chapter, we work through a handful of real-world examples to provide a basic foundation upon which to base your own exploration of the remaining script steps, covering the following topics:
  • Scripting basic functions

  • Interacting with fields

  • Accessing folders and files

  • Working with records

  • Using conditional statements

  • Showing custom dialogs

  • Searching and dealing with found sets

  • Iterating with repeating statements

  • Scripting portal functions

  • Managing windows

  • Using Insert ...

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