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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
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- Subject: Re: FMPro 2.0 date search question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.195620.10279@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:56:20 GMT
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- rswanson@zeus (Roger Swanson) writes:
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- >I want to perform a search initially by a given name in a field, but I want
- >the search to finish so that it only gives the last five records entered under
- >this name. I have every record automatically time stamped when it is created.
- >Is there an easy way I can have a script search out the last five records
- >added based on the name from the current record being browsed, so that a
- >report could be printed out with only these five entries? Any help someone
- >could give me on this would be greatly appreciated.
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- I don't think this is possible. What you need is the ability to have
- conditional statements in your find request, and that capability is out
- of FileMaker Pro's range.
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