The built in scripting engine for FilemakerPro is actually pretty decent, but people design some pretty clunky interfaces. What I wanted was a button that the user could click which would open a dialog box with some search field inputs. There are a few tricks to get this to work properly.

The first step is to open the scripting engine. This is found under “Scripts” > “ScriptMaker”. Click on “New” in the dialog window to create a new script. The dialog window allows you to use up to 3 fields. Why you can’t select more is beyond me, but that is fine for my purpose.

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