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What is a layout? - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: Learning FileMaker 16
What is a layout?
- [Instructor] FileMaker Pro developers spend a significant amount of time working with layouts, and that's because layouts are the primary way of presenting and organizing data in FileMaker. Layouts serve both as user interface and areas for design and development. I wanted to give you a quick tour of a couple of the terms and concepts behind layouts in FileMaker before we dive right into some of the tools and creating our own layouts. So first of all, I wanted to show you a layout that we're looking at here. This happens to be the contact starter solution with a little bit of data in it. And what I wanted to show you that there's a technique that's kind of common in FileMaker where you'll create two different types of layouts for each table that you have in your database. This isn't a rule by any means. You'll see that the starter solutions are set up this way. And the various other database applications that you see built in FileMaker are built this way as well. First, you'll…
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Contents
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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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What are scripts and script steps?2m 43s
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Assigning script steps to buttons4m 2s
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Touring the Script workspace4m 11s
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Creating multiline scripts6m 58s
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Adding find criteria to a script7m 27s
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Using new window script step8m
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Understanding the "If" script step5m 41s
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Using script parameters, set field, and error capture5m 10s
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Sending emails in your scripts6m 4s
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Importing scripts from other files3m 7s
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