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Applying object sliding and visibility - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 12 Essential Training
Applying object sliding and visibility
When you're thinking about allowing your users to be able to print layouts that you have created in your FileMaker database, there is a couple of things that you might want to take into consideration. First of all, you know that you can print any layout that you can see on screen, so you might want to prevent certain objects that are on the layout from printing. And also you want to create efficient layout so that when users go to try to print a layout you can minimize the amount of whitespace that gets printed. So in order to be able to control both of these, you will use what's called the Sliding & Visibility section of the Inspector Position tab. We'll go into Layout mode, and if you don't see the Inspector go under the View menu and choose it. And the Position Tab is the farthest left one. On the very bottom, we can go ahead and collapse these right now, you will see the Sliding & Visibility section. So first of all if we go over to the Customer List let's say we've got these…
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