Filemaker Pro 8.5 Educational Maintenance T3 TJ083LL/A User Manual

Chapter 4

  

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GetNextSerialValue(fileName;fieldName)

fileName - the name of an open 

 (local or remote).

fieldName - the name of the 

 whose next 

 you want to determine.

See “Design functions” on page 41 for information about literal text parameters.

text

Returns the next serial number of fieldName in fileName. Field names must be fully 

qualified in the form tablename::fieldname to specify a field that exists in a table 

different from the current table.

GetNextSerialValue(“Customers”;”CustID”) returns the next serial number for 

the CustID field.

LayoutIDs(fileName)

fileName - the name of an open 

 (local or remote).

See “Design functions” on page 41 for information about literal text parameters.

text

 IDs in fileName, separated by carriage returns.

LayoutIDs(“Customers”) returns a list of all the layout IDs in the Customers 

database file.