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Popovers in your layouts

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- [Instructor] One of my favorite layout features is a layout object called popovers. A popover is a button that's actually a layout object that allows you to work with fields, text and other objects on a layout. We've got some good examples inside the starter app, which is the invoices starter app. It's got some great uses of popovers. As a matter of fact, as you'll see here, instead of having users pick from a dropdown to assign the customer to an invoice, instead you'll hit this Popover button and get to pick them from a portal. Or down here when you're adding a line item, you've got that cool effect of the popover growing. Here I might want to see a payment status, which is giving me information about the payment so I don't have to take up all that space on screen. And even on the dashboard, the popover is used as an administrative tool that allows users to edit the name of the company so that that can be information…

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