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Adding find criteria to a script: User specified finds

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Adding find criteria to a script: User specified finds

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- [Instructor] When you're deciding to add find functionality into your scripts you can really hard-code in static find criteria much like we have here in this print welcome letter. You'll notice that we've got to perform find and in brackets it says restore and that's because we've gone in and said to do a specific type of search. Go into the Customer Status field and type in the criteria Pending. But sometimes you might want your users to perform their own find or actually at least enter in their own find criteria. So in that case, doing something like this where you're restoring the find criteria might not work. So instead, you might delete that criteria. You see that it no longer says restore. And in this case what we might want to do is add in some other criteria. So very often when you're creating your scripts you're actually mimicking what the manual steps would be that a user would perform. And the manual steps for a user are to enter find mode first. So enter find mode. We'll…

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