Button, Popovers, Button Bars, SVG Icons

I am experimenting with the use of popovers on a coin database I keep. Refer to Image 1: I have added 2 popover buttons, one in the bottom right-hand corner of the first coin and the second on the bottom left-hand corner of the second coin shown in the database. The first button, when clicked, is designed show an enlarged picture of Bluey while the second button, when clicked, is designed to show an enlarged picture of King Charles III. At the moment, when I click either button, I do get a popover with the enlarged image – but not the size/location I want (See Database). Here is my wish: when either button is clicked, I want the popover to cover exactly the…

I have a small database called RECIPES. On each record is a container field called IMAGE where I upload a small image of the created recipe. I would like to show a larger image of the one in this field. I downloaded a file called popoveContainerDEMO (attached) to show me how to do it. I installed a popover button on the RECIPES database and named it "Enlarge Image" as seen on the attached RECIPES database. HOWEVER, when I click on the Enlarge Image button to display the popover and then try to drag an image to the popover, the image does not load. It works for the demo file I downloaded - but not on my database. Can someone please help me with this. Frank popoveC…

I know that you can double all the segments, and then hide them accordingly to the wished. But the issue I have with it, is that you might hide the "active" by doing so. Exists a scriptstep that actively changes the state of the now appearing segment? I guess on the other hand - that the CSS behind the button bar, can be hacked to perform this little feature. Only I'm not aware of how to do so? I attach the template I trying this teqnique on, and the idea was that the icon changed when double-clicking on the desired segment buttonbar sort.fmp12

Hi. (Being an interface matter, I assume this is the correct forum to place it into.) I am looking to setup 'toastr'-style notification boxes as found in this link by CodeSeven. I have seen a few mentions of people having done it but been unable to contact them or see any working examples. It's the implementation of JS into Filemaker that has eluded me. Has anybody got any working examples of doing this please? Greg

I use radio buttons vertically (0, 1, 2, 3...), and another field (a merge one) with the choose function to show the "tag". Is there a way to do the same but horizontally? The problem is that horizontally it shows the values from the value list. I make the text color match the the color of the background, and I does the trick. Is there a better way?

The button in the video (Add Alert Trigger) is grouped with the plus sign. Both are svg's and neither is set to display a background (square/gray) on press, hover, etc.. Anything I can do to keep the ugly gray square from showing behind the icon(s) when pressed? I've tried "Freeze" as well with no luck. Click_Background.mp4

In the attached video you'll see a popover flicker upon opening (via popover button). There's no script trigger set nor any other reason I can identify for the flicker. I created a standard button (second click) which only does a Go To Object (opening the same popover window) yet this time the popover does not flicker. Thoughts? Popover_Flicker.mp4

This must be listed in a million places, but I can't find it. I know in the new Filemaker you have to hit tab to edit a button. What if you wanted to edit the graphics and styles on a whole bunch of buttons? You can't use tab and shift or command. If you do, it doesn't select all the buttons for editing. What's the trick? Let's say I have five buttons and they're all grey with black text. How do I make them all green with white text? Thank you fritz

Now when I add .SVG icons, the preview in the picker is tiny, versus in the past, the preview would be full frame. See attached examples to illustrate what I mean. I'm (knowingly) doing nothing different, been making custom .svg icons for many years, never had this issue. This only changed when I upgraded my computer, also Adobe Illustrator has been updated... I've checked the code, and I do not see anything different between the two files. Somehow the thumbnail is effected during creation, and not represented in the lines of code? The icon works perfectly, just the preview in the picker is off, and its is more of an OCD pet peeve at the moment. Thanks for any h…

I don't know what the feature is called so I don't know where to look for help. I created a new database using FileMaker's template, Contacts. After leaving the cursor on the field "State" a label pops up. I don't know what this feature is called so I don't know where to go to change it. I changed the name of the field to "Province" and also changed the place holder to Province, but the label still pops up saying "State." How do I change this to say "Province" - Thanks!

I am not sure if this is possible and I cannot find information on it. I have several records and I want to flip between form view and list view which I can do. Is it possible to have two buttons (form and list) and place them on top of each other? When I press 'list' it will show list view but the form button. Then when I press the form button it will display the form view and the 'list' button. Thanks.

Is there any way to have a script trigger on a checkbox that allows the X to show in the box before the trigger activates please? I have tried the following on 'OnObjectEnter' and all the others, but the dialogue comes up before the X appears in the box. Thanks.

I have a popover with two panels. Both have container fields for images stored external. I'd like to capture the filename saved as and thought this would work. I'm not getting expected results. I've put this into my IMAGE NAME field as auto enter calculation assuming it'll populate when I add the full size image to container.

I am a newbie and trying to use the standard email script with a button. It works once and then when I try again it will not open a new email window in Mac Mail. I am using FMP19. I note that there are options in the button set up and mine seems to default to "Pause current Script". Is this the issue or something else? This is a screenshot of the basic script I am using and it only opens my mail folder and not a new email. Using GMail on FireFox I have opened my Mac Mail to use with FileMaker Pro 19. Any assistance will be appreciated. Thank you.

Here is a navigational button bar menu: Log | Billing | Accounts | Resources Log opens a new layout, Billing opens a new layout, Accounts opens a new window, resources opens a new layout. The 'active' button segment works fine for all of these except Accounts, which upon opening a new window the Accounts button segment remains the active segment. I would like it to be the Log segment, since once the new window is closed the menu is now incorrectly identifying the environment of the previous window. I am assuming a script trigger could reset this, but I'm not sure what should trigger it; and my main question is 'What is the best way to handle this?'

Hi all. I'm working on a project that utilizes touch screen monitors and I am wanting to find the most efficient way of scripting an on-screen keyboard for users to enter data when prompted. The typical QWERTY keyboard with backspace, left/right arrows, Enter, etc. If possible, if someone could direct me on how to script a single letter (say, "Q"), spacebar and Backspace I should be able to figure out the rest. Many thanks.

Curious if there is a solution to this problem I'm having.... I would prefer to use a Button Bar over a standard Button. But, a Button Bar has an Active State that holds hierarchy over Hover State, which makes the Dial Up/Down Button in the attached sample file "appear" to not work correctly. Is is possible to somehow override the Active State so Hover State works properly? Thank you for any help! 😃 sample_button_bar.fmp12

I am a newbee. I installed the inventory platform to place my household inventory should I ever have a homeowners fire insurance claim. I have a field called "Location" where it produces a dropdown where one of the items is called "Office." See photo attached. I retired and have no further need of an office and would like change its name to "Hobby Room." I tried going into Fields>File>Manage Database and Manage Fields both in the regular and edit fields without success. See photo. I appreciate the help and thank you in advance.

I'm trying to add a popover onto a popover on an iOS layout. On the original popover, the user has buttons they can choose from. Some users, especially new ones, may need an explanation as to what a button does. I want to avoid clutter for experienced users, so instead of providing an explanation directly on the original popover, I want to add a "?" button that opens a 2nd a popover that provides an explanation. The 2nd popover that I have added onto the original one does not open, but does open when I move it off of the popover. Is it just not possible to do this? If so, does anyone have a better idea? Thank you! I am using FileMaker Pro 18 Advanced I have…

Hi there, I'm a FM beginner and would like to know how I can show a searchable dropdown. When I create a product, I need to select a supplier from a large list. I would like to tyoe some characters, from where I find a value in the dropdown. As far as I see now, that isn't possible and the only way to do this is through a popover. But my question is then, how to show a full table in the popover, from which I can select a value, which is filled in my form.

Hi All, Need help with a basic button bar to navigate between layouts : 3 buttons, single step is Go To Layout A or B or C. The navigation to each layout is OK. What I can't figure out is why the blue wording is the button bar does not always stay highlighted. When I return to the layout (after having closed a card window) I include a Refresh Window step and that seems to help for that specific issue. I would love your advice on a better method to make sure the layout that I am in stays highlighted in the button bar. Thanks

Hello, Is it possible to make a slider bar field control like the attached image in filemaker 18? I only found a request feature 5 years back https://community.claris.com/en/s/idea/0870H000000fy9IQAQ/detail Thanks,

When adding a "button setup" to a text label, how can one control the different states (pressed, hover) styling. FMP creates a group item that includes the text label, but there is no 'button' item to modify, just the 'group' item which has no states. When clicking the label, a 'greyed out' overlay is added to the group including the label text color. This is what I would like to remove. Hover Pressed (mouse click)

I'm trying to import SVG icons from FontAwesome for use as button bar icons in FileMaker, but I can't get them to work. I'm using FM 16 Advanced. When I try to add them to the FM button bar icon screen, they show up as empty. Here's the SVG text. Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 640 512"> <g class="fm_fill"> <path d="M448,224a32,32,0,1,0,32,32A32.03667,32.03667,0,0,0,448,224ZM240,128a31.99908,31.99908,0,0,0-32-32H24A23.99993,23.99993,0,0,0,0,120v16a24.00118,24.00118,0,0,0,24,24H86.23828l55.32227,56.94922-10.79493.98047a38.22631,38.22631,0,0,0,0,76.13867l10.79688.98…

Can anyone advise to put me in the right direction. I will try to explain what I am trying to do. I have attached a screenshot of a projects i'm trying to build as you can see from the image attached I have buttons they are in rows red gold yellow blue ect. if I choose the row morphology I would need to choose one of the option in the top row and so on until I reach the bottom. Each row I have created a table and a field I am trying to get it so that when I click on the buttons data will be entered into the field IE: if I do The Morphology Row the data entered on what button I have chosen. How would I go about this I am a bit new to this any help would…

Please can you help? I am trying to use a button to enter data into a field. I have a field name survey type I have three buttons survey 1, survey 2, survey 3, if I press survey 3 then I want that to be the data entered into the field. How can this be done any help would be grateful.

Hello, An SVG newbie here. I would like to use animated SVG icons, but I am having trouble using them. From what I can tell, they can only be imported onto a button - not directly on a layout - and whilst it displays on the button, it does not animate. On that point, is it possible to place it on a layout through the likes of a web viewer perhaps? I'm on a Mac (OS is High Sierra 10.13.6) running FMPA 18.0.3 and wondering if this platform may be the issue. I've seen mention about IE and Edge being a problem, but not Mac. I've not found anything through Google on how these are used in Filemaker. Can I get a hand please? Greg

I'm trying to capture the action of a user clicking outside a popover to dismiss it instead of using escape or a close button. I have a field in the popover that has a onObjectExit script trigger to perform a find. I have it setup to exit the script if they type Escape, or to show a custom dialog if nothing is entered into the find field and they type the enter key. My problem is that I want to subvert the dialog if they just click out of the field onto the layout (slide Panel), but I see no way to capture this action. "Get ( ActiveLayoutObjectName )" doesn't work because they're not clicking into anything that would trigger that.

Hi all, I have a pretty simple navigation scheme with six buttons that are attached to this script: Go to Layout (Get (ScriptParameter)) I pass the name of the layout as the script parameter and it takes me to the corresponding layout. This works for five buttons, but one refuses to do anything. I've been tearing my hair out and squinting at the screen, trying to find a typo in the script parameter or the layout name, even deleted and carefully retyped, but it all looks good to me. The only thing that was different is the fact that I've added that particular layout after the button was already on the other layouts, but I can't see how tha…

I may be chasing rainbows, but is it possible to change the label/name inside a popover button using a variable (local or global)? I tried and failed, and was just wondering whether it's ignorance on my part of an available technique or it's just the way they are, i.e., statically assigned. Thanks! Rich

Greets, all: I have a popover in a filtered portal (same child table but filtered on Court Number) where, when clicked, appears so a user can edit that child record's info. The problem is, the popover button only appears in the first portal row; I looked in FileMaker Pro's Help entry online but it doesn't make mention of this. Am I missing something or this is normal behavior? If it is normal, is there a quick-'n'-dirty workaround? TIA for your help, Rich

I have a couple of layouts (dialogs) that are invoked through a script with any number of button bars on them. One button would cancel the script/layout dialog, another would OK it and then there's buttons that change settings. In order for this to work I pause the script indefinitely, in a loop and check which button gets pressed. I then take action accordingly (ie, if the cancel button is pressed I exit the loop). To do this each button on the button bar needs to have the option "Resume Current Script" enabled. So I've checked this was so by opening the Button Bar Setup dialog and walking through the various buttons to check the setting is enabled. It didn't work …

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Hi Everyone Can someone tell me if this is possible? I have a dashboard which displays services due, services outstanding, completed services and faults outstanding. What I want to do is put a little "badge" on the buttons displaying the amount of records showing in the portal related. I have no idea where to start. I have attached some images and also my relationship view. Thanks in advanced!

I have a list (not in a portal) and a button at the end of each row. The button is to delete the entry if required. The button shows up on every list entry and clutters up the look. How can I get the button to only show for the selected record in the list please? Thanks.