Chapter 13Creating New Records and Sorting

Now that you have a taste of how FileMaker web publishing works, it is time to continue discovering the many other ways to interact with FileMaker from the web. Here, we will discuss creating new records, which will allow you for the first time to have a two-way interaction with the FileMaker database. At the end of this chapter, sorting is also covered in order to help you properly display the records that you create.

Record Creation Process

Creating records within FileMaker using the FileMaker API is a very similar process to the find all command that was covered in the previous chapter. A new step is introduced into the process that involves setting the actual field values within the record before ...

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