Chapter 7. Calculation Primer
The Calculation dialog in FileMaker serves as a fundamental element in nearly all development activities. Beyond simply defining calculation fields, you also work with the dialog within scripts, for setting some auto-enter field options, for field validation, for ToolTips, for conditional field formatting, and even within a file’s security settings. We encourage all developers to become deeply familiar with calculation functions and to that end have assembled here a concise reference of how the dialog works.
The Calculation Function Interface
The Specify Calculation dialog allows developers easy access to the data fields in their solutions and to a complete function list (see Figure 7.1).
Figure 7.1. Both field names ...
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