Understanding object states

In previous movies we looked to how you can apply formatting to objects in your Layout.…In this movie I'm going to show you a pretty cool new feature in FileMaker 12 that allows…the object on your Layout to have different States. And in each one of those States, you…can apply different formatting. So you can specify attributes indicating the state of…an object when they're viewed in Browse mode, which gives a database user some kind of visual…feedback for the actions that they are making on screen. So I can format field, for example,…in Layout mode. I select the CompanyLogo field, for example, and I go under the Inspector…to the Appearance tab. And you'll notice in the very top here we've got this dropdown…and by default it's going to say Normal State. We've got 2 point lines here applied, and let's…say no other features, that's what it's going to look like in Browse mode in its Normal…State. We let's look at what some of the other States are that available to us Normal State…means it's not been interacted with, it's just the default state of the object when…