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FILEMAKER SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 98

• To change existing criteria, select the line containing the field and criteria from the top of the

dialog box, and make your changes to field and/or criteria. Click Change to store your

changes.

• To delete existing criteria, select the line containing the field and criteria from the top of the

dialog box and click Remove.

Compatibility

Originated in

FileMaker Pro 6.0 or earlier

Description

If you do not create a find request, this script step will perform the last find request that was

executed.

You can use a Perform Find script following an Enter Find Mode script step, to pause the script and

allow the user to enter find criteria before performing a find.

Examples

If FileMaker Pro doesn't find any records that match the find criteria when you perform the script,

you can stop the script, continue the script with zero records in the current found set, or change the

find criteria. By using the

Set Error Capture script step and the Get(LastError) function, you can set

up a script to handle such situations. For example:

The following script tries to perform a find. If no records are found, a custom dialog will appear giving

the user the option to modify the find request or go back to Browse mode.

Set Error Capture [On]

Perform Find [Restore]

If [Get (LastError) > 0]

Show Custom Dialog ["No records were found. Click OK to modify

your request or click Cancel to return to Browse mode."]

If [Get (LastMessageChoice) = 1]

Modify Last Find

Else

Enter Browse Mode []

End If