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Mimicking Bento Smart Collections in Filemaker Pro 12
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I have been a Bento user for years, and with its end, I am investigating Filemaker Pro.
How can one easily mimic Bento's Smart Collections, so thaty, like in Bento, you can ajust click on something and that collection shows up (which you can then display, search further, or whatever?)
The absence of this, and Bento's simple list fields are the main stumbing block with adopting Filemaker for me.
If your "collection" is a set of records, then you can click on a button in FileMaker and that button can perform a script that finds those records. You can also set up a value list in a field so that you can select a name from the value list and a script can perform a find to pull up the records with that name. There are also ways to get similar results using protals and a relationship between two tables.
Not being a Bento user, I don't know exactly what those are or how you use them, but there are any number of ways to produce and interact with a list in FileMaker--including producing such a list inside a single field though that is far from the only option.