Find from a List

[surfninja13]

Hello All,

This may have been addressed before and I am very new to scripting in filemaker.  Basically what I am trying to create is a script where I can find records from a carriage return separated list.  I have created a field and a button to execute the script.

For Example: If I have 50 records for every US State, in the field I could put:

California

Nevada

Oregon

Thus populating just the 3 records.  

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[comment]

Assuming you have entered the three states to find into a global field named gStates, you could have your script do:

Enter Find Mode []
Loop
  Set Field [ YourTable::State; GetValue ( AnyTable::gStates ; Get ( RecordNumber ) ) ]
  Exit Loop If [ Get ( RequestCount ) ≥ ValueCount ( AnyTable::gStates ) ]
  New Record/Request
End Loop
Perform Find []

 

[surfninja13]

Thank  you for your quick response.

I get an error that an operator is expected in the following portion:

Set Field [ YourTable::State; GetValue ( AnyTable::gStates ; Get ( RecordNumber ) ) ]

Thanks

[comment]

Do you know how to use the Set Field[] script step?

Edited March 29, 2016 by comment

[surfninja13]

I'd like to add it wouldn't be searching a global field, but all existing records.  If that helps?

[webko]

It's getting its list from the global field, to then search all records...

[surfninja13]

Ok looks like it searches successfully if I just have 1 "State" in my find field.  If I add any more it just errors out and finds zero.

I am probably using the Set Field portion incorrectly.

Thanks for the help

[comment]

20 minutes ago, surfninja13 said:

 If I add any more it just errors out and finds zero.

Does this work for you?

MultiFind.fp7

[surfninja13]

YES!  Thank you very much, I also figured out how to format the Set Field step correctly.

 

Best,