ISO FileMaker Magazine

One of the more comfortable concepts within FileMaker is the pervasive calculation dialog box. Once you're familiar, you find it everywhere. It can be used with fields and your database schema, and it's used within the processing and logic of your scripts.

When it comes to schema, and what your fields can do, the calculation dialog box is right there with its handy Auto-Enter options.

This powerful feature allows you to do all kinds of magic with fields. A field can determine what it should become or change into when other fields are changed. It can tie into your whole solution and make evaluations based on a myriad of various conditions.

There are certainly some fundamentals to know about Auto-Enter options and how they work. Every FileMaker developer should know these. Also, knowing just a few of the helpful functions can take you a long way in accomplishing your desired goals with FileMaker.

This video provides information about using auto-enter to manage record duplications when using a UUID.