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Using the tab control feature

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Using the tab control feature

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- [Instructor] The tabbed user interface is a popular design feature for many applications, as a matter of fact even the starter apps that you see in FileMaker 17, they pretty much all have a tab interface. You'll notice that here for example in the Meetings detail layout, on the Meeting Starter App, that we've got a Notes, Topics, and Action Items tab. And what this allows us to do is compartmentalize the layouts, save the screen real estate, and use that same area on-screen for multiple different pieces of information. Now how do we add that to our layouts? Let's take a look at our Exercise File, and if we go into Layout Mode, let's say we've determined we want to do a better job of utilizing the space on screen, as a matter of fact, I'm want to turn off our guides to give us a little bit of left-right room here. So we notice that we have groups of fields that kind of break into different categories like for…

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