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Touring the Script Workspace and Script Debugger

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Touring the Script Workspace and Script Debugger

- [Instructor] Scripting is a very powerful tool in FileMaker and it allows you to specify a series of actions that can be triggered in a variety of different ways. Adding this type of automation to your apps makes them more powerful and significantly easier to use and cuts down on the training that you're going to have to do as you tell people how to use your app efficiently. Now often you're going to find out that just assigning a script step to a button is not going to be adequate enough. We talked in the previous movie about how any layout object can be a button and you can assign an action to it. That way if somebody interacts with that object the action occurs. But in most cases scripts require multiple different lines or multiple different actions to occur. So before you can create these multiline scripts, you're going to have to be familiar with the area where you create such things. And that's what I'm going to do in this movie is talk to you about the script workspace. If…

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