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Using calculations to hide objects

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Using calculations to hide objects

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- [Instructor] FileMaker's object visibility feature allows you to hide any layout object by specifying a hide object when condition. This condition is defined by a calculation formula whose result must be Boolean. That means that any non-zero numeric result will cause the object to be hidden when the record is displayed. So basically you end up with a true or false statement that when true will actually hide the object, and when false will display it. So first of all what are we talking about here? Well if you look at this exercise file which is actually just one of the sample apps, or the inventory sample app specifically, it's got a great example of this already in place. Notice that we've got this radio button here on each product that indicates whether this is actually a product, a hard good, or if it's service. If it's a product we have things like how many units were sold and then some inventory order…

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