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Using the Layout Setup dialog

Using the Layout Setup dialog - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Using the Layout Setup dialog

- Once layouts are created, you have various different ways to configure them. This chapter will discuss the different options available for modifying and managing existing layouts. So for example, let's take a look at the customer layout in Layout Mode. Although we've already decided on the name of the layout and the context, if we ever need to edit this in the future, we can hit this little pencil button right here. This is what's called the Layout Setup dialogue. So you see here that we can change our Layout Name if we need to and this checkbox for Include in layout menus allows us to pick whether or not we want to see the layout in the Browse Mode when users click on the layout dropdown. This is also where we choose the context of they layout, although what I would strongly caution you not to ever change the context of a layout once it's already been established, because FileMaker can get really confused. Plus the amount of work that you would have to do to relink all the fields…

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