Auto Formatting FileMaker 7 Fields
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How do you turn 1234567890 into (123) 456-7890? Well, in FileMaker 6 and earlier, you used a Modification Trigger. But now you don't have to. FileMaker 7 now offers auto-enter calculations that will re-trigger any time any of its referenced fields are updated. This is useful for features such as auto-timestamping notes.
Watch this week's video to learn how to use a number of FileMaker 7 functions to not only timestamp notes, but to determine what the selected text is within a text field!