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Generating functions play an important role in Hamiltonian mechanics and provide a natural setting for the study of symplectic invariants of Lagrangian submanifolds of \(T^*M\) with the canonical symplectic structure (\(M\) being a Riemannian manifold). Observations relating the Hamiltonian action functional with generating functions of Lagrangian submanifolds have been crucial for functorial construction of the dynamical Floer theory of Lagrangian submanifolds and of some quantum theoretic symplectic invariants, providing a framework for some other aspects of symplectic topology. This highly specialized paper clarifies the above viewpoint to some extent and establishes a setting allowing to show that some symplectic invariants defined by the second author coincide with those previously introduced by C. Viterbo (these invariants are recalled in the present work). The setting enables the authors to show the existence of an isomorphism between the Morse homology theory of generating functions and the Floer homology theory defined for an arbitrary submanifold \(N\subset M\). This isomorphism preserves filtrations in both homology theories. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0892.00044].