User manual
Table Of Contents
- Preface Introducing FileMaker Pro
- Chapter 1 Using databases
- About database fields and records
- Opening files
- Opening multiple windows per file
- Closing windows and files
- Saving files
- About modes
- Viewing records
- Adding and duplicating records
- Deleting records
- Entering data
- Finding records
- Making a find request
- Performing quick finds based on data in one field
- Finding text and characters
- Finding numbers, dates, times, and timestamps
- Finding ranges of information
- Finding data in related fields
- Finding empty or non-empty fields
- Finding duplicate values
- Finding records that match multiple criteria
- Finding records except those matching criteria
- Deleting and reverting requests
- Viewing, repeating, or changing the last find
- Hiding records from a found set and viewing hidden records
- Finding and replacing data
- Sorting records
- Previewing and printing databases
- Automating tasks with scripts
- Backing up database files
- Setting preferences
- Chapter 2 Creating databases
- Chapter 3 Working with related tables and files
- Chapter 4 Sharing and exchanging data
- Sharing databases on a network
- Importing and exporting data
- Saving and sending data in other formats
- Sending email messages based on record data
- Supported import/export file formats
- ODBC and JDBC
- Methods of importing data into an existing file
- About adding records
- About updating existing records
- About updating matching records
- About the importing process
- Converting a data file to a new FileMaker Pro file
- About the exporting process
- Publishing databases on the web
- Chapter 5 Protecting databases with accounts and privilege sets
- Chapter 6 Converting FileMaker databases from previous versions
- Index
24 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
Making a find request
To make a find request:
1. Go to a layout that has fields you want to enter criteria in.
You can change layouts and enter criteria on more than one layout.
2. Choose View menu > Find Mode.
3. In the find request, select a text, number, date, time, timestamp, or
calculation field to use for finding, then type a value in the field.
You can use the Symbols pop-up menu to help you enter criteria that
include operators.
4. Click Find in the status area, or choose Requests menu > Perform
Find
.
You can do one or more of the following during or after performing a
find request:
Choose a layout
with fields you want
to search on
Type Find criteria
in fields
Click the arrow to
see the operators
Click to begin
searching
To Do this
Cancel a find operation before it
is finished and leave the
previous found set unchanged
Press Esc (Windows) or 2-period (Mac OS).
Change or refine criteria after
performing a find request
See “Viewing, repeating, or changing the last
find” on page 32.
Narrow an existing found set See “Constraining (narrowing) a found set” on
page 29.
Broaden an existing found set See “Extending (broadening) a found set” on
page 30.
Show all records again In Browse mode, choose Records menu >
Show All Records.
In Find mode, choose Requests menu > Show
All Records.
You don’t need to choose Show All Records
before performing finds. FileMaker Pro
always searches all records in the tables you
specify unless you have narrowed the existing
found set.
Open another window in order
to perform different find
requests on the same data
Choose Window menu > New Window.