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Touring the Calculation Dialog window

Touring the Calculation Dialog window - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Touring the Calculation Dialog window

- [Narrator] Before you can start writing calculations you're going to want to get familiar with the calculation dialog window. There's a few different places where this can pop up, I'm going to show you what these different windows look like so that you know what the workspace looks like that you have at your disposal. The first and most obvious place to start is to look at the calculation field dialog. You can invoke that by creating a new field, choosing calculation, and hitting create. You'll see that the calculation dialog window now appears and it's got three different panes, the fields pane over on the left hand side is where all the different fields are at your disposal. This icon to the right tells you what type of field it is. We've got text fields, we got summary fields, and the image that you see there is container, dates, time, numbers, and so on. Over on the right hand side is What's called the functions pane. Here are all the different calculation functions. You're…

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