Name
before
Syntax
tell app "Finder" to get folder before system folder
Synonyms
[in] front of
Description
Both Relative reference forms, before or
in front of allows the scripter to grab or refer
to items that are located just before a known object, such as a file,
folder, or database record. Similar to a binary operator,
before and in front of take
references both before and after it:
file before last file
To get the database-record id just before the currently active one, you could tell FileMaker Pro to do the following:
get (ID of record before current record)
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