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Sorting with one criterion

Sorting with one criterion - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Sorting with one criterion

In each of the exercises in this title, we've been working with multiple records. But you will notice as you open up each file that the records are in order that really doesn't kind of have any relevance. It's not alphabetical order, not by contact name, or not by state or anything like that. But what's happening is when you first open up a file, and you look at these, you're seeing that they're actually being sorted in the order in which they were created in the database. That's not always meaningful to users though. So in this movie, I am going to show you how you can sort records in FileMaker, and you can sort in any layout using what's called the Sort dialog window. You can invoke that window by going into the Status toolbar and Browse mode and clicking this button right here or under Records there is a Sort option there, but what's most common is that you are going to use Command+S or on Windows the Ctrl+S option to preset the Sort dialog window. And inside the Sort dialog…

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