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Reviewing the If and Case functions

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Reviewing the If and Case functions

Thus far in this course I've used the If calculation function. And if you've not yet worked with either the If or Case functions, you'll probably want to review those and you can do so by going to the online training library and reviewing the FileMaker 12 Essential Training title for more details. Several of the logical functions, including If and Case, are used for performing what are referred to as conditional operations. In other words, the value returned by these functions depends on whether one or more of those conditions that you specify are true or not. For example, if such and such is true then return X, if not, return Y. The basic concept behind conditional function is that you provide a test and if that test is true, then you get one result, otherwise if it's false, you get another. So in plain English I like to say, it's raining, I bring an umbrella, otherwise bring sunglasses. So if it's raining is the test, umbrella is true, sunglasses would be false. So the case…

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