That "evaluate" as a practice function is a brilliant idea. Just an anecdote: since I work with an Italian FM program, I had to find (and it was easy) "Valutazione". There are times when FM will accept the English function command, and when it won't, but that is a long story.
Nice video Matt! A quick note about PatternCount and Position (around 45:00) for starters watching the video. In this example Position returns '1' just like PatternCount does. Just to make sure that you get it right: the purpose of Position is 'Returns the starting position of the specified occurrence of searchString in text'. In the video example the result happens to be '1' so just be aware that it could have been any number depending on the search string, start and occurence. Example: Position( "This is the best text in the world"; "s"; 1; 1) would return 4
Thanks for pointing that out Lowie. Yes, in Boolean logic within FileMaker anything OTHER THAN zero (0) is considered True. So, by the mere fact that you find the position of anything within the string you get a positive Boolean result.
great video. I would literally watch every second of you going through every single function if you did it. HAHA Can anyone link the devcon video that discusses optimizing your code mentioned at 43:08 in this video?
That "evaluate" as a practice function is a brilliant idea. Just an anecdote: since I work with an Italian FM program, I had to find (and it was easy) "Valutazione". There are times when FM will accept the English function command, and when it won't, but that is a long story.
Nice video Matt!
A quick note about PatternCount and Position (around 45:00) for starters watching the video. In this example Position returns '1' just like PatternCount does.
Just to make sure that you get it right: the purpose of Position is 'Returns the starting position of the specified occurrence of searchString in text'.
In the video example the result happens to be '1' so just be aware that it could have been any number depending on the search string, start and occurence.
Example:
Position( "This is the best text in the world"; "s"; 1; 1) would return 4
Thanks for pointing that out Lowie. Yes, in Boolean logic within FileMaker anything OTHER THAN zero (0) is considered True. So, by the mere fact that you find the position of anything within the string you get a positive Boolean result.
How can I prevent a layout from being printed? Not objects within the layout but the layout as a whole.
Thank you!
Always interesting.
great video. I would literally watch every second of you going through every single function if you did it. HAHA Can anyone link the devcon video that discusses optimizing your code mentioned at 43:08 in this video?
It's this one ruclips.net/video/rYGxuxg0K78/видео.html
great Matt, just learn just a little bit more of FM.