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FILEMAKER PRO HELP 1063
• Click Insert Operator to further refine your search criteria. See Finding records.
• Click Add to add your criteria to the find request.
• 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.
Example 1
Goes to the Invoice Details layout, enters Find Mode, pauses for user input, performs a find, and
returns to the original layout.
Go to Layout ["Invoice Details"]
Enter Find Mode [Pause]
Perform Find [ ]
Go to Layout [original layout]
Example 2
Goes to Find mode, pauses for user input, and performs the find. Displays the Invoice Details layout,
Invoices layout, or a custom dialog depending on how many records were found.
Set Error Capture [On]
Enter Find Mode [Pause]
Perform Find [ ]
If [Get ( FoundCount ) = 1]
Go to Layout ["Invoice Details"]
Else If [Get ( FoundCount ) > 1]
Go to Layout ["Invoices"]
Where the script step runs Supported
FileMaker Pro Yes
FileMaker Server scheduled script Yes
FileMaker Go Yes
Custom Web Publishing Yes
FileMaker WebDirect Yes
Runtime solution Yes