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Using the layout objects window - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: Learning FileMaker 16
Using the layout objects window
- [Instructor] One of my favorite new features in FileMaker 16 is a new tool that's available to us while we're in Layout Mode. If we go into Layout mode... we will see under the View menu that there's a new option here for the Layout Objects window. This is something that I've been waiting for for a long time, and I'm excited to be able to talk to you about it here. So first of all, let's talk about the problem that it solves. If we look at the layout that we have in the background, you'll see that I have a ton of different layout objects on here, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that in recent versions of FileMaker, we now have the ability to hide certain objects conditionally. So the methodology that's been born out of that is to layer all sorts of different objects on top of each other, and then conditionally hide them based on different values or circumstances, and it's a cool technique, and I'm a big fan of it. But the problem is it creates a lot of clutter. So now we…
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Using guides, arranging, aligning, grouping and locking layout objects7m 12s
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Applying themes to layouts1m 28s
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Working with shapes in your layouts6m 14s
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Applying screen stencils6m 13s
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Working with images and icons on your layouts5m 57s
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Gradients2m 6s
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Formatting fields and applying field attributes5m 35s
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Layout object states6m 2s
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Access control behavior1m 59s
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Using the tab control feature6m 36s
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Using slide controls in your layouts4m 15s
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Popovers in your layouts6m 18s
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Setting the tab order3m 23s
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Learning how to conditionally hide layout objects4m 52s
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Using the layout objects window5m 28s
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