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27. Using Script Triggers

Mark Conway Munro1  
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Lewisburg, PA, USA
 
A script connected to a button or menu requires a user to perform a manual action to initiate the process. While this is fine for tasks that are optional or require a conscious choice, critical business functions can be forgotten. In some cases, it may be inefficient and non-intuitive to require a user to perform extra clicks to initiate mandatory actions in the interface. FileMaker allows you to design dynamically responsive interfaces that connect user events to custom scripts. A script trigger is a developer-defined connection between an interface event and a script process. ...

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