The Separation Model – Part 24 – QuickFind Power
Hey, just "Google" that...
Yeah, that's right, Google is the Kleenex of single field searching. It's not just on Google's own home page. It's the little search box in Safari, Chrome, IE, Firefox and whatever other piece of software provides some search feature.
True, there will always be other ways to search for things and FileMaker has always provided its familiar query-by-form method of searching for data.
The cool thing about FileMaker's relatively new feature of QuickFind is that - well - it's there!
Yet, I hear from many a developer who has not adopted this wonderful feature. Whether you're showing the status area or not, you can certainly take advantage of QuickFind.
Better than that, you can really capitalize on QuickFind by combining the Constrain and Extend functionality of found sets. So, if you've found yourself simply bypassing the QuickFind feature of FileMaker then be prepared to get excited!
Comments
Can you place the cursor there?
One shortcoming with the normal toolbar QuickFind is that I cannot find a keyboard shortcut to put the cursor there. As such, you need to mouse to jump to it.
Anyone found a solution to this that is cross-platform?
Cheers,
Justin