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Using Fast Match and Quick Find - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 14 Essential Training
Using Fast Match and Quick Find
- In all the other movies in this chapter, we've covered different ways that you can do searches or create found sets inside Find Mode. But I bet you didn't know that there's a couple ways that you can initiate a search and create a found set without ever leaving Browse Mode. They're pretty easy. One of them is called a Fast Match, and it's a pretty easy feature. It's all part of the contextual menu. Here I am in Browse Mode, you can see here, Browse. I'm gonna click inside one of these fields, let's say this State field. If you right click or control click, you can see that you have this Find Matching Records option in your contextual menu. This'll just find whatever matches the value that's in the field, so in this case, ME. So pretty easy way to right click in and find information within a certain field. But also while you've created these found sets, you can say let me constrain this found set by just any city that is Piedmont. We're just gonna get one record there. But now I can…
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