Understanding the If script step

Creating scripts in FileMaker is an essential part of developing a FileMaker database that's…going to be easy for your users to work with. And making scripts as intelligent as possible…will take much of the guesswork out of using your database. A great way to add intelligence…to your script is by adding conditions to the scripts. If you recall in the calculations…chapter, we discussed a group of functions called logical functions. These allow you…to perform a test or ask a question and then provide multiple results depending on whether…or not the test provided true answer or a false. You can do the same thing in a script…using a set of script steps that are based on the same if principle. They'll allow you…to ask a question during your script and then perform different actions based on whether…or not the condition was met or whether it was false. Let's take a look at a set of scripts…under our Manage scripts, and we see we've got this Print Welcome Letter. Let's duplicate…this--I am going to hit Duplicate button right there, and we are going to create a new one,…