Button, Popovers, Button Bars, SVG Icons

Would anyone happen to know how to set the background color of a popup? I understand that it might be defined as part of the theme. But the theme my project was assigned during its FM11 to FM14 upgrade is Classic ... and I've read that Classic can't—or shouldn't be—changed. A picture of what I'm after is shown below ... and thanks for any help on this.

Ok dumb question. I have looked and looked. I can not make a popover show that little round x which shows when in layout mode. I have seen some solutions which have it when in browse mode but I cannot find how to make it show. It must be looking right at me the answer I mean but I can not find the setting for it. I can not find a 'show round x on popover' anywhere. please help out an ignoramus.

Is it possible to dynamically set a FM .svg icon? ex. case value = 0; svgIconStarWHITE; svgIconStarBLACK Looking to take advantage of the new .svg feature. I'm currently just using character "charms" to accomplish this. Using the data formatting "boolean" option, show zero ☆ ; non zero ★ But this is limited to a small group of silly characters and most don't have a comparable black vs. white version. For example, I would like to use a heart icon but can't using charms. Any ideas on this? Thanks

Helpful information for adding your own SGV icons https://fmhelp.filemaker.com/docs/14/en/svg/

Hi there, Is there a way to determine the name of an object from within conditional formatting and or script parameters? Example: I have a number of buttons that all have object names. When I click on the button I just want to pass the object name as a script parameter. All the best,

So I am mocking up vertical navigation bar to the left and have a slide panel to the right ( kind of like a left tab panel ) So each button is static text & icon, and each button targets one script and passes a parameter, to go to the desired slide panel. Some times I have to switch layouts and on return script I target the correct slide panel but now trying to target the corresponding active segment - but it appears that it it requires each segment to be named too? I feel like I am repeating myself to many times button is named the ( no point in making it 'dynamic' since the text has to correspond to the icon ) script parameter is named - buried one level deep i…

Doing some particular actions in my DB will bring up a dialog box with an instruction or warning. Now I want to create such a box with one of the clickable buttons being programmed so it opens to a specific record, and always that specific record. Preferably this opens in a new window in the same DB. FYI the record will be in the same layout that is already open. I can however, not find how to do this. Any help would be appreciated.

I don't know about you, but when I first saw the Button Bar demoed, I figured it was just a quick, handy way to add a group of individual, potentially but not necessarily related, buttons, and keep them conveniently grouped. Nice, but nothing special; I was a bit underwhelmed! In fact, believing it to be only a convenience thing, I figured that I might even get in the habit of adding "single-segment" button bars in lieu of traditional buttons (with the added bonuses of calculated labels, available only for button bars, as well as being able to switch between action and popover buttons). Turns out the button bar is a somewhat different animal, in ways that make it ideal…

Simple question, is there a way to export the icon files to be used on FM13? Thanks.

You can also style a single segment button bar as a button that does nothing with a calculation for the label, then style it to match a field or text on the layout and use it for layout level calculations with out the need to add a calculation to the schema.

Anyone tried popovers yet? Mine seem a bit buggy on win 64.... Pressing the popover button sometimes doesnt work or there is a delay showing the popover Also a button in the popover to close the popover does not appear to work either.

Hi, How to create new record from the popover button? I have customer layout which has City field with drop down selection, I want to create a popover button beside so that user can instantly add city incase the city is not listed on the dropdown list. It has table relationship as well. One to many relationship with One for City Table ( CityID - Primary Key) and Many for Customer Table ( CityID - foreign key). Please advice, Thank you.

I'm writing a database to control quotes, the main related tables are... Customers Quotes [join table] Jobs I have also created one more table called "DASHBOARD" with one record and one ID field which is locked, i.e. you can't create anymore records. On the DASHBOARD layout I have a TAB CONTROL, each tab has a portal showing my quotes [pulled from join table] filtered by a statues field such as... Waiting to quote Chasing Lost Won Dead The Status of each quote is qualified by a drop-down, pulling from a defined list, additionally there is a date field informing me when to chase the customer again, which has another calculating days up to and passed the chase date. …

Hello there, I am trying to setup a notification system using slider controls that when I add a new record on my internal "notification/warnings" table it will show up on one specific user window, to show or not the slider I am using a field inside a portal, if it is set to yes it will show the notification slider, otherwise it will go to an empty slider, ok there. When I change that field on my side, how do I force the window on that other side to refresh so it pops the notification "instantly" there saying that the new record is added? Is there a way to for user window refresh server side? Usualy it will only refresh when the user does something that asks for the re…

Hello, I made a button to set field with getNth. Is there a way to make this button perform the same function for another field? edit: actually, I made a script that performs all of this, just trying to get the button to perform the script :)

Greetings FM community and thank you for your time  Here's a newbie question from someone who really wants to learn!  On a "sales" layout, that's associated with a "sales" table, I'd like to have a portal on the left that displays the "types" (table) of "products" (table) available. For instance, "shakes", "bars", or "items".  Each product has a type, and depending on the selected button in the first portal of the sales layout, I'd like to display the products of this type in a second portal, located beside the first portal. For now, not much success, but I suspect it's the relationships that are wrong.  Any help helps!  Thanks in advance Â

Is there a way to make a popover open with a script? I see a "Close Popover" script step, but I don't see one for opening a popover. I'm trying to make a window pop up for creating a new record when someone clicks on a link in the Virtual List Sidebar Menu I've got going. Maybe I'm supposed to just use a floating window for that? I want a window where someone clicks in the menu, the window pops up, and they have to deal with it – either filling out the form, or cancelling – before they can move on with anything else. I'm thinking maybe it can't be done because...where you going to stick the popover in layout mode? But if I can't do that, what's next? Floating window? M…

I am working on a patient record DB. Â To simplify text entry, I have a related Template table with fields displayed by a portal. Â This relationship is global with: Â Pt Record::key('1') ---->Template::key('1') Â I want to provide the ability to quickly move blocks of text from a history text field to the Template text field to create a new template. Â To do this, I have a popover that contains a portal to the Template table. Â I hoped to be able to simply copy text, open the popover to a new Template record in the portal, Â paste text, close and move on, Â but I could not get this to work. Â Thinking that it was a problem with the relationship, I created a s…

HI all, I have a table called "locations". That table has an (int) ID (string) Location Name and (int) valid. I am using that table as the basis for a couple of popup menu "values from" lists. I can't see anywhere in FM the option to create a custom value list. What I need to do is for one of the popup menus, only include values where the valid field = 1. in SQL terms it would be select * from locations where valid = 1. Other popup lists on there will need all of the rows, regardless of their valid setting. As far as I can see, there is only the ability to include ALL rows of a table or a custom list of hard-typed values. Many thanks

I have a pesky problem with trying to implement popovers to replace some older picker popups. I have created a popover, and attached an OnObjectEnter script trigger and an OnObjectExit script trigger (to the popover itself, not the button). The OnObjectEnter script sets some variables to prepare the popover for portal data selection. This works fine. The OnObjectExit script trigger clears the variables. I have a Cancel button on the popover that executes Close Popover command, which triggers the OnObjectExit script trigger to clear variables. This works fine. The problem is when you click the popover button itself again. I've noted the default behavior…

I'm using a "does nothing" button as a status indicator. Basically, if the value of a given related record field is zero, the button is hidden, and if the value is one, the button is not hidden. I specify this under "Hide object when" under the button's behavior. I noticed that when I browse to a particular record in the layout, the button displays OK. However, if I change the value of the related record field, the button does not automatically change state. I.e., if the value is 0, and I change it to 1, the button does not display automatically, and similarly, if the value is 1 and I change it to 0, the button does not hide automatically. If I browse to a dif…

I think I'm constructing a Rube Goldberg-esque solution to my problem. Here's the application domain. I have a table of records that correspond to patent applications, which are commonly referred to as matters. A matter can claim (but does not have to) immediate priority to one and only one other matter. However, more than one matter can claim priority to the same matter, and a matter that has matter(s) which claim priority to it can itself claim priority to a matter. When a matter claims priority to another matter, this means that the former matter is of lower priority than the latter matter. I realize this is confusing, so here's a concrete example that I've be…

hello everyone, in my format I have set a popover through which you can create new records, and in this case, enter the identity of new contacts (name, surname). my problem is when I want to see the new contact in the portal of the format ... portal remains empty even though the records are properly stored in the related table. you will find the file attached in order to have a clearer overview. popover data entry.fmp12.zip

Hi There, I need some help with performing a calculation on a field in a table based on the contents of another field in the same table. The field I want base my calculation on is call Status whose content comes from a radio button set in a layout. The radio button set has three options Outstanding, Won and Lost. So I created a field called Outstanding set Type to Calculation and inserted the calculation: Case(Status = "Outstanding";1;0). When I display the field in a report all the rows show the value as 0 when at least 50% of the should display 1 and the Status field displays one of the three options. Then when I modified the calculation to use a di…

Hi All, I am trying to hide a button unless a certain privilege set is used, however, when I try to enter a calculation ( I tried to use Get ( AccountPrivilegeSetName ) ≠ [Full Access] ) it comes up with errors. Clearly I am doing this wrong, but I cannot find anything that gives me a guide as to what I am expected to do. Can anyone tell me how I can achieve this? Cheers

I have a script I would like to execute with a button click. The script works fine, but I would like to pass two variables into the script. I'm not sure how to do this, but I've been trying to use the Specify Calculation to do this. The following is the script: I would like to replace the fun and the 000000 with information from the database. Could anyone point me in the correct direction, or provide a hint for me. do shell script "osascript NewFromTemplatePlaceImage.scpt fun 000000" Regards,

Hello, thank you for your help. I'm new to FileMaker, after only recently learning Excel, so please bear with me. I'm working on building a database for my eBay inventory (many different items), which I will be uploading to eBay's bulk uploading system called File Exchange in .csv format. I'm pretty far along, but I'm stumped on this issue I'm having... Many of the categories that eBay offers allows sellers to upload ads using a 'standard format' template of feilds that determine the content of the published ad. However, some categories, such as clothing, CDs, and DVDs, require 'category-specific' templates, which have added fields that examine specific details o…

I have a home screen which contains 11 buttons. The top button is visible to all. The top 7 buttons are visible to those users in a Priviledge Set called 'Office_Admin' All 11 buttons are visible to those users in a Priviledge Set called 'Sys_Admin' Can anyone please help me understand the logic for the 'Hide object when' property for each set of controls based on the user's priviledge set? Thanks Martin

I am looking for a way to avoid the user to close a popup without clicking a button in the popover (thereby running a script) so I can use the popover for data entry. My searching capabilities seem a bit lacking today, as I couldn't find any previous discussions on this topic. I've come up with a solution, but I thought I'd check here and see if anyone had any input or a better way to do this. My solution: I created a script "Abort Click-out" The script is simply: If [ Get ( ScriptParameter ) = ""] Exit Script [Result: False] End If Then, in the popover, I do a script trigger of: OnObjectExit: Abort Click-out; Parameter: Get(ScriptName) In this way,…

I have encountered a problem that I can't explain or work around.  I am using FileMaker Pro Advanced 13.  I have a global field on a table (glbClients). I also have a value list (Client Code and Name) that displays the Client Code as the first field and the Client name as the second field.  I have a layout based on the Client table. On this layout, I am displaying the glbClients Field with a Popup Menu that uses the "Client Code and Name" popup menu.  There is a On Modify script trigger on the glbClient field that runs a script that finds the appropriate client code.  The problem: The Global field with the Popup Menu is not always displaying c…

I have a set of 7 buttons - one for each day with an attached script. If I click a button, I want its background to change color. This works, but only when pressing it. It then goes back imediatly to previous appearance. I want it to keep the new background color to help remember the user what he choose. When he clicks any of the 6 other buttons, that button will then be the one with the new background color. Do you need a script to do that?

I just realized that I could put portals inside of popovers. I really like the idea of using this in a list view to show related records. I was thinking of using it as an expandable portion for each record sort of like a "+" used in other programs. One down side is that I could only keep one popover open at a time, but I think that would be alright. I'm curious what the filemaker community thinks of something like this. Would this be poor design? Has anyone else tried this out? Any other cons to popovers besides only one open at a time?

Filemaker 13 has a script step, "Close popover". Is there a way to open a popover using a script?

I've been digging around in FM13 trying to figure out how the field help balloons where done in the "Getting Started" guide. When a field is clicked in some areas of the guide a tip balloon pops up with a focus pointer pointing to the field and some info on the field function. I suppose it could be done with the new hide object config and a calc on Get (ActiveFieldName) on a graphic object but the balloons seem to be a function of FM13 since they appear semi-transparent and background content can still be seen. Have I missed something or did someone at FM use a graphic app to create a whole lotta balloon graphics? The "Getting Started" database isn't unlocked for m…

Request clarification: In FMP Advanced 13, when I set a different style for an object when it is in "hover" state, the style is only applied if the object is *enterable in browse mode.* (To be clear, I am not referring to OnHover script trigger or any other sort of script triggering, just FMP's native "hover" style state.) If "Field Entry" -- Browse Mode check box is not checked (i.e. the field is not enterable,) when I mouse-hover over the object nothing happens. Maybe this is how it's always been and I just didn't know it. It's problematic for me because I want to use a container field (with custom icon stored in it) as a button, and I want the button t…