In an effort to make FileMaker Pro 10 even easier to use than before, that's a
difficult task, believe me. FileMaker has implemented some user interface
changes in the script maker or now the Manage Scripts Dialogue. So that's the
first change instead of script maker it says manage scripts. And this
corresponds to what you see over here under manage. You'll also have that option
here but they wanted to leave it available to where people are used to it. So
that's one change and now you're going to see also a default report script, now
this is available a long, long time ago in FileMaker and they removed it. They
brought it back, if you click on here, instead of an empty script, which is what
you're used to, you can now choose a default script. This is a script that
attempts to make a button for you or you're going to attach a script to a button
that will display a report for you. So it looks at what you've done, it looks at
the layout you're on which should be report layout when you create this script.
It looks what the find was and in this case we had shown all records and it looks
at what the sort was. And it puts that all into a script for you so you can
literally just say save this script after you've named it and that'll be a
button that you can put anywhere else that will come to this layout, this report
layout that you've created and display it for you. So it's really a great
feature for beginners I think. So we'll delete that out of there and you'll also
notice that we have instead of group, we have now folder. And that was just
easier to understand for most users. You'll also notice that instead of all
scripts, we now have Show All here. And now when we come in and we edit a
script, you notice that we have more options for how we display our scripts.
Before we had web compatibility, now you can display all, client, server or web
publishing. So they really had to add this and you notice when I choose web
publishing, obviously the script is not going to be with instant web publishing
and you can see that all the unavailable script steps are dimmed out. Same with
server, they had to add this because they had this new feature, they couldn't
put a bunch of check boxes in there, they might as well make a pop-up menu, it's
a better user interface. So, we'll close that and then last thing you'll notice
is outside of the script maker dialogue, you'll see this inside custom menu's
and inside but definitions, we'll go into layout mode, double click on a button,
you notice that this is simply in bold here. Just makes it stand out more so you
can more readily view what this button does. So we'll go back here to Browse
Mode, go to the next slide and here's a wonderful feature, set field by name.
But remember it's a very complicated feature. We're not going to show how to use it
right now because it require very complicated example. I just wanted to give you
an overview and an idea of what it can do. So essentially it's the same as
existing set field script step. The difference is you can now attach a
calculation to the target. Before you had to specify a field and you had no choice.
Now you can say decide what that target field is by a calculation so you can
calculate what you put in it and now you can calculate where it goes. So you
could take a looping script that had 10 set fields in it and make it 1 set field.
Essentially making it more efficient and making it easier to make conditional scripts.
It'll be easier to modify it later on, just makes sense but again this is for more
complicated examples, there's no real good simple example to show you. So you'll
see examples of this scattered throughout the tutorial.
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