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Work with popovers in your layouts - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 15 Essential Training
Work with popovers in your layouts
- [Voiceover] One of my favorite layout objects in FileMaker is an object called a popover. I think it's a really cool, subtle UI effect and it was introduced in some recent versions of FileMaker. Popover is actually a style of a button that allows you to add a layout object to one of your layouts and allows you to work with fields, text, and other objects inside of the popover as it appears on screen. Now a popover button expands to display a popover object that floats over a window, thus obscuring the content behind it. Now it's a panel similar to Tab Control panels or Slide Control panels that can display any type of layout object. So really, when popovers are used correctly, they can be useful to allow you to add detailed information on a field or object where you might not have space on the layout to be able to place that information, or you could put them on a line item of a portal where you can show more detail about an object that doesn't fit on a portal row. I like putting…
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Use guides, arrange, align, group, and lock layout objects11m 9s
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Apply themes to layouts2m 11s
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Work with shapes in your layouts6m 18s
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Apply screen stencils6m 13s
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Work with images and icons on your layouts7m 31s
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Apply gradients2m 3s
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Format fields and apply field attributes6m 9s
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Understand states7m 1s
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Set field behaviors2m 3s
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Use the tab control feature7m 26s
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Use slide controls in your layouts5m 44s
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Work with popovers in your layouts7m 24s
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Set the tab order3m 29s
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Learn how to conditionally hide layout objects4m 8s
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