Simplified Search Queries
As a software/database developer, one of your primary goals is making your solutions easy to use. This means users should be able to perform common queries by simply clicking buttons which run the queries automatically.
This is probably something you already do. But, the big question is this, “Do you make it easy on yourself for creating those simple queries?” Many developers will create a unique script for each of the various queries, and in some cases this is just fine. It’s when you start feeling the overwhelm of a growing list of scripts when you start to ask the really important questions.
Is it really possible to compose most of your scripted Finds using one single script? You’d better believe it is! In fact, if you abstract the searching part of your solution, it becomes very easy to create all kinds of queries, on demand, right there within the user interface.
When you abstract your search queries, you reduce the number of scripts within your solution and make it both quick and easy to automate the searching functionality of your solution.
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Thanks
With the level of my FileMaker knowledge, this was I think the first Video Tutorial I could follow from begin to end while understanding all and the usefulness of it in other situations, in particular for the database(s) I am working on for a non-profit organisation. Thank you very much.
No video download link here?
Hi Matt,
There is no video download links for this lesson?
Hope you can fix it,
Thank you.
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Eduardo Croissier
Datus LABS (ASTRA Solutions)
No Scripts to Study
Love the videos and the knowledge. However, it seems the last few examples that I've downloaded the scripting is turned off or not available. it's nice to see how things work on the video, but I like to study the scripts so I can learn why and how you are doing things. It's just difficult to get this from the video without the script to study. Am I doing something wrong? Scripts were available previously.