A range of information differs according to the data type:
•Numbers: least to greatest
•Dates, times, and timestamps: earliest to latest
•Text: first to last word, based on the index order of words (not the sort order). A word can be a single character; for example, a find on a field for <M would return every record that contains a word less than M in the field’s index order.
1. Start a find request.
To find values that are | Use this operator | Examples |
Less than a specified value | < |
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Less than or equal to a specified value | <= or ≤ |
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Greater than a specified value | > |
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Greater than or equal to a specified value | >= or ≥ |
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Within the range you specify | .. or ... |
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Within the sub-range you specify | {..} or {...} |
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Based only on certain date or time components such as month, year, or minutes (see more examples below) | * or type nothing for each component you don’t want to specify |
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2. Click Perform Find in the status toolbar.
•When searching for ranges of information in date, time, and timestamp fields, you don’t have to specify all date or time components. For example, you can type 5/2019 instead of 5/1/2019...5/31/2019 to find all dates in May 2019.
•You can combine operators to simplify range searches. For example, type */{10..15}/2019 to search for all dates in 2019, but only for days from the 10th through the 15th.
•For information on writing scripts to find a range of dates, search the FileMaker Knowledge Base.
•Refer to the following tables for examples of different ways to search for dates, times, and timestamps.
To find dates | Type this in the field |
In June 2019 |
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From July 2019 through October 2020 |
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That occur on a Friday |
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From the 10th through the 16th of October or November 2019 |
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That occur on March 1st between 1868 and 1912 in the Japanese Emperor Year era of Meiji |
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That occur on December 31st between 1930 and 1940 in the Japanese Emperor Year era of Showa |
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To find times | Type this in the field |
In the 3 o’clock hour, not including 4:00 PM |
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Between 8:00 AM and 8:59:59 PM |
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In the morning |
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Any of the times 4:30, 5:30, and 6:30 PM |
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To find timestamps | Type this in the field |
In the 3 o’clock hour today |
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In the 7 o’clock hour in May 2019 |
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That occur on a Monday in 2020 |
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From the 10th through the 16th of November 2020 and from 3:00 PM to less than 6:00 PM |
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