RE: Stepping through a found set in FileMaker Pro
RE: Stepping through a found set in FileMaker Pro
- Subject: RE: Stepping through a found set in FileMaker Pro
- From: Eric Schult <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:16:03 -0500
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I have a basic script that steps through every record in a FileMaker Pro
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database, but this gets rather slow with a database that has thousands
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of records. Is there a way to address records in a found set?
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I currently use this in a loop: go to record x of database dbname. Then
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reference the current record to do what I need to do. Is there a similar
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go to found record x of database dbname?
Yes. Change "go to record x of database dbname" to "go to record x of
document dbname" and you will only loop through the found records. In
Filemaker, a document is a child of a database which includes only the found
records.
wes