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Managing layouts and layout folders

Managing layouts and layout folders - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Managing layouts and layout folders

- A single FileMaker Pro file could have dozens or even hundreds of different layouts. Therefore it's useful to organize these layouts in such a way that both you and your users can easily find what they're looking for. The feature in FileMaker Pro that helps you accomplish this is the Manage Layouts dialog. File, Manage, and Layouts will bring up the Manage Layouts dialog. Now what you see here are all the different layouts that we currently have defined in our file. We've got Customers, Products, Invoices, InvoiceLineItems, and then our corresponding list views and we've got a couple extras here as well. Now first of all, this window allows us to search for different layouts. If we've got hundreds of them this can be very helpful. So we say Customers, and we see that it gives us all four that just have the words c-u-s in it. We also see that we can reorder them. So for example I can take these handles and move all the customer ones, cluster them together. And what I like doing is…

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