Think of it as an overview of what's possible or a tour of the scripting environment, aimed at getting you ready to write your first script. No actual scripts are discussed as this is just a primer. Later, discussions about how to activate scripts, shortcuts, comments, the Script Debugger and the Data Viewer are discussed to further assist you in understanding additional areas of scripting for which you should focus your learning efforts. Scripts will be divided into three groups so you know which steps should be ignored, which are the most important and which ones are useful but easy to learn. The first part of this guide aims to pare down this list in order to make the learning process easier. Nonetheless, learning 150 plus script steps and how they interact with each other is a daunting task. The FileMaker Pro Script Workspace is a beautifully designed environment that enables you to create a solution as good as any commercial product on the market. Yet, it is so much more! With logical branching, it can even be considered a programming language. Since it repeats most of the items under the menus, it can also be considered a macro language. The original purpose of scripting was to automate the mundane task of printing a report. FileMaker Pro scripting has elements of all these definitions. What is FileMaker Pro scripting? It can be defined as automation, a macro and even a programming language. The Philosophy of FileMaker recommends PCI! In order to avoid this problem, search with two equal signs (=). While the field contains valid characters, the field is technically empty. It can fail if a user has fat fingered a field by entering a space, a return or some other invisible character. Search for Empty Searching for records with an empty field works most of the time using a single equal sign (=). Email John Mark Osborne or call John Mark at (909) 393-4664 to find out more about this service. Over programming hurdles via GoToMeeting. Meta-consulting is a service Database Pros offers to help other developers Support this site by clicking on a sponsor below or becoming a patron! The Philosophy of FileMaker - Scripting Primer
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