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28 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
Records that match at least one of the sets of criteria, but not
necessarily all (logical OR search)
To widen your search, enter criteria in the first request. Choose
Requests menu > Add New Request. Enter the second (set of) criteria.
Continue adding requests for each (set of) criteria, then click
Find.
Examples:
1 To include customers in New York and customers in Paris in the
found set, type New York in the City field in the first request, then
type
Paris in the City field in the second request.
1 To include companies with more than 100 employees and
companies with more than $100 million in assets, type >100 in
Number of Employees in the first request, then type >100,000,000
in Capitalization in the second request.
1 To include 6th grade students who are in Algebra and 7th grade
students who are in Geometry, type 6 in Level and Algebra in
Course in the first request, then type 7 in Level and Geometry in
Course in the second request.
You can broaden a found set to expand your search to include
additional applicable records without starting over. See the next
section.
Extending (broadening) a found set
For example, after searching for customers in New York, you can
broaden the search to also find customers in Hong Kong:
1. In Find mode, perform a find to find customers in New York.
FileMaker Pro displays the found set in Browse mode.
2. Switch back to Find mode and type the criteria to broaden the
search (type Hong Kong in the City field).
3. Choose Requests menu > Extend Found Set.
The found set now consists of customers in New York and Hong
Kong.
Records that match one set of criteria but not another
To narrow your search by excluding records that meet specified
criteria (for example, to find vendors in New York state that are not
in New York City), see
“Finding some records while omitting others”
on page 28.
Finding records except those matching criteria
You can exclude (omit) records while performing a find. In other
words, you can find information in your database that “does not
equal” your specified criteria. For example, you can find all invoices
except those created in the past 30 days.
Finding records that don’t match criteria
For example, to find all sales records except those for the city of
London:
1. In Find mode, type criteria for the records to omit.
2. Select Omit in the status area.
3. Click Find.
Finding some records while omitting others
For example, to find vendors in the state of New York, except those
in New York City:
1. In Find mode, type the criteria for the records to find (type New
York
in the State field.)
2. Choose Requests menu > Add New Request.
Select Omit to exclude records that match
the request