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Use guides, arrange, align, group, and lock layout objects - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 15 Essential Training
Use guides, arrange, align, group, and lock layout objects
- [Voiceover] When you're designing your layouts for your users, you want to make sure that you're not distracting them in any way. And that sometimes requires an obsessive level of attention to detail, but the good news is FileMaker has all sorts of tools to allow you to be able to do precision design when you're in layout mode. Now, layout objects are the building blocks of layouts. Everything you place on a layout, like a field, or a button, or a label, or a portal, any of these things are considered objects and all objects have particular attributes that you can manipulate. Now you must be in layout mode be able to do anything to a layout. So why don't we start there first? And in layout mode you can do things like group any combination of objects together so that you can edit or move them, you can change the stack in order of objects and get different effects when objects overlap. All of these tools are going to be found in your Inspector. You'll notice that we have four…
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Use guides, arrange, align, group, and lock layout objects11m 9s
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Apply themes to layouts2m 11s
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Work with shapes in your layouts6m 18s
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Apply screen stencils6m 13s
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Work with images and icons on your layouts7m 31s
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Apply gradients2m 3s
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Format fields and apply field attributes6m 9s
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Understand states7m 1s
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Set field behaviors2m 3s
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Use the tab control feature7m 26s
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Use slide controls in your layouts5m 44s
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Work with popovers in your layouts7m 24s
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Set the tab order3m 29s
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Learn how to conditionally hide layout objects4m 8s
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