Interface Design Discussions

Hi, I have a database of music tracks. Each record has a container field which points to an mp3. I just upgraded from Filemaker Pro 12 to FMP15, and now when I play audio in Filemaker, I can no longer see the progress bar. The only options that I get are Play/Pause and go-back-30-secs. I need to see the progress bar for my mp3s so that I can jump to the middle of an mp3 quickly. Has anyone found any workarounds or plugins that will show progress bars for container fields with audio ? (Mp3 quicktime?) Thank you so much in advance!!

Hello Friend , Is there any way to make folders in work space scripts of different colours likely in table relationship there is an colour option. Thanking

I have a portal with a list of dates and I would like a horizontal line to appear on just one row, the record with the closest to Get ( CurrentDate ). I was trying some get Nth options but no luck. divider.fmp12.zip

Hi All After instaling Filemaker Pro Advanced 14 in Windows i notice that inside Script work space if you have a script step like Import Records (with ODBC configuration and a Sql Query ) There is no way to go directly edit the Sql query (Short Cut Key or double click) to change only the query Example : you always have to - Specify data Source (Drop down Menu) - Select ODBC Source - Confirm User Password Edit Menu - Then Edit Sql Query.... Is there any easier way ???? Thanks

Is there a means to tell which iPhone is running FM Go? I have created a Solution that I use to track my Disney Collection. It basically on my PC/Mac with screens for an iPad and iPhone 6plus. [I copy it to my iPhone 6Plus and it is not the primary input source] I have several friends in the Orlando Disneyana Club who may be interested. If I developed a less robust iPhone screens how could I distinguish between iPhone 5 and a 6plus. I am in the process creating system for a Toy Collector friend and I would have the same issue; unless I dumb the iPhone screen down to the lowest common dominator. I was hoping the Get(Device) would do the trick.. but It does not appear to …

Hello Mavens, I have a container field into which images can be pasted. I want to create a popout window run by a script, that displays the image in its full size. How do I get the size of the image that has been pasted into a container field? Muchas gracias.

Wondering if anyone has a creative solution for getting records to appear like the attached sample where the record only appears for the length of text based on a certain field. Basically to have records that are variable height (not fixed). The trick is to do this in browse mode so that records can be interacted with. This is similar to threads in mac mail. Thanks

I upgraded my computer from Windows 7 to Windows 10. FM 12 Adv no longer fits properly on the screen. At 100% zoom the image is too large and I have to reduce to 75% zoom. This is too small and fonts are very poor. I have the screen resolution set to the maximum monitor resolution of 1920x1080. Is this a scaling issue with Windows 10 ?

I remember a while ago looking into creating a desktop shortcut to a file hosted on a server machine and it was a little more complex than I expected it to be. Has anyone had luck in creating a desktop shortcut that opens a FMP file over the network? I'd also like to use the icon I created rather than use the FileMaker default. I would need to create a shortcut on Macs and Windows computers.

So i was cleaning up some user data entry and noticed some fields had errant returns in them - which of course is bad when the field is used in a relationship or value list. Managed to clean up the set of records - and thought the easiest way to prevent this is at the point of entry by making the return and enter keys also go to the next field. However today I discovered users were getting a bit frustrated because when they perform a FIND and enter a value and hit return, it advances and doesn't perform the Find they have to click the button in the toolbar. I could have a separate set of fields ones that HIDE in browse and ones that HIDE in fin…

just curious what people prefer when developing a multi device / platform design for Desktop / iPad / iPhone / WD Do you prefer to essentially create different versions of the solution inside one file and treat each target device as an independent solution? Duplicate scripts for each device, so that navigation is targeted only to layouts for that device. On startup establish the device solution is open on and navigate to that portion of the database. - or - Create separate layouts for device dependent context - but reuse common layouts between various devices. Maintain one set of scripts for function and navigation but always testing for device / platform to target …

FM 12. When I click in a portal, all the fields (in all the rows) are outlined with light dotted lines. I have the field graphic line set to none (in inspector) and Text and Field boundaries set to off. What causes this and how can I turn off the dotted lines?

Before I make several design changes that impact end users data entry methods I am trying to decide the best approach to accommodate the changes that are being made: Currently: The user enters a Date in a date field and a time like 8AM-6PM into a text field. One set of fields for an Event and another set of fields for Setup. Development: I have normalized this event data into a separate table and parsed the time field into a its key parts mostly the start time and then also introduced a duration field so the intent is the user just enters the date and start time and a duration (from a pick list) I have a calculation that will resolve to two timest…

This post is simply to make others aware of a usage of placeholder text that I haven't seen mentioned before. We have situation where, when opening a popover to create a new record, the new record isn't created until the User enters data. However, there are a few auto-enter fields which are defaults and they do not display. This is confusing to Users since, from their perspective, that data should already be there - they don't fill it in unless they want to change the value.! I always keep a field (global) called PLACEHOLDER. It is set to auto-enter ( replace ) with: If ( not IsEmpty ( Self ) ; "" ) and I use it for displaying calculation results on layouts when…

Over the years—and particularly for FM14—has anyone come up with a user-convenient way to toggle spellcheck on/off for a particular entry field? Spellcheck is so simplistic in Filemaker that it flags partial words that are being typed ... plus all urls ... and occasional supporting references like "libeay32.dll". Ideally, there would be a toggle button somewhere on the GUI. But how can you achieve that effect? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Hi, I think what I'm trying to do is similar to the post here : http://fmforums.com/topic/43137-creating-html-templates-using-data-fields/#comment-201362 but expanding the idea quite a bit. I'm adding products to ecommerce site Volusion. Eventually, I'm moving the site to the Magento platform. I've been using Excel and the concatenate function, however, I'm seeing the time saving benefits of using FM12Pro but hung up on adding fields that contain html tags and populating them with attributes. I've attached a text file that more fully explains. Thank you for your assistance. We lost a member of our team and We're just trying to get all the work done. I'm also attaching,…

Hi there I have a use case where it's necessary for FM to run a script which updates records - the script takes around 10 seconds to complete. I want to run this on an occasion when a user edits or adds to a portal set of records. I could just use a script trigger, but as I say, this would fire the user into a 10 second update quite frequently and get annoying very quickly. Instead, I want to run the script just once and update all records which are changed in one go. In order to do this, the user will click a button labelled 'Commit Changes' and it's this I want to draw their attention to. When the user edits or adds a record, I want a flashing box to appear around …

Hello Gurus, I have a tables which I called Dashboard Table; Materials Table and I have a related table Which I called Expiring Next Month & Retest Next Month. I want to save all my Expiring Materials for the Next Month and Retest Materials for the Next Month in one Excel sheet. Please find attached file that Im working. Thank you so much. Warehouse Management.fp7

Hi All, I Have 4 tables 1. Button Menus Field Names Type Comments Button_Name Text Button_Highlight Calculation Unstored,=If( Dashboard::MenuKey = Button_Name; Globals::Menu_Graphics[1] ) Button_Display Calculation Unstored,=If( Dashboard::MenuKey = Button_Name; TextStyleAdd ( Button_Name ; Bold ); Button_Name ) 2. Dashboard Field Names Type Comments ButtonKey Text Global Username Text Global 3. Warehouse Field Names Type Comments constant Calculation 1 MATERIALS ID MATCH FIELD Text Indexed, Auto Enter-serial ; Cant Modify Material Receiving Number Number Auto Enter-serial Material Name Text Indexed Material Lot…

I have a pop up menu with the following choices: Premium Taxes Fees Other When I click on Premium, I'm trying to create another pop-up menu that lists 1-4 aircraft that I can select. Is this at all possible or better served by creating a hidden popover window?

I have several reports which I'd like the user to be able to select from a list and then have FM print overall upon one button press, rather than the current set up I have which is a button on each report which fires the relevant print script. To add a little layer of complexity to the process, the reports need a letter index added to them prior to printing. This is because, depending on the circumstances, in one instance Report XYZ could have an index position of say, 'D', but the next time, due to an additional report being required, Report XYZ would have the index position of 'E'. This index position needs to be visible on the report. The reason I'm posting is beca…

Hi, I've been using .png icons for a while on FM layouts and they look great, however via WebDirect, my icons blur, hmm ...? I've looked at the svg link and downloaded it for future use, but my customer are not on FM14 ( svg link says FM14 ) they are all on FM13 and below. I thought FM was OK with png files ? I had to stop using gif due to the transparencies not being applied. Any assistance I would be grateful. My goal here are crisp, clean, sharp icons with transparencies. I by icon that are pixel perfect ( I believe ) but when I look at them via WebDirect, they blur ?? Thank you. Tom

Hi Guys, Looking for some opinions and ideas. Attached screenshot is the interface I am designing. The idea is that I have a menu bar on each layout that contains all the content I need in the menu for every layout. Some content may not be displayed (ie a print button) but should nevertheless be available in the design. As the screenshot shows, I have a menu on the left, which is intended to provide quick access to main modules (ie customers, reports, etc). The menu on the right is a "my accounts" kinda thing where the logged on user will be able to do things specific to that user, ie timesheets, kpi's, change password, etc. My problem is that while I can make the menu…

I seem to recall finding a suggestion on this issue before, but cannot figure out what to search for! I have a very brief script that updates today's schedule for my inspectors. If there is no change in their schedule, there's no way to know for sure the script ran. I'd like to flash the screen, or in some manner indicate the script has run. Ideas?

The question is this: Is the alpha layer set on the PNG file? It is possible for something to appear to have an alpha layer simply because it has a background that matches the color. Using the GIMP, you can create the alpha layer yourself, however, by selecting it and specifying it as the alpha color.

Creating a dropdown in the header area that uses a trigger to run search scripts based on value selected. Got it working with one small issue... immediately after running the script, the first record in the found set is selected and because of the tab order, the first field is selected. I don't want to get rid of the tab order, but I really don't want anything selected after my script runs. Seems like I used to be able to use the commit records script step to essentially exit the record...but it's not working like I remembered. How can I deselect the record or bypass the tab order...so that nothing is selected after my script runs?

I have encountered two issues changing to FM 13 from 11: Vertically centred text and buttons don't align properly with vertically centred data fields of the same height and font. They signed properly in FM 11. The choices of grey fill or text from FM 11 do not match up with the choices offered in FM 13. This creates many challenges in modifying old layouts and adding new ones. Suggestions about how best to resolve these two issues? Thanks.

There is no longer a font tab in the preferences (as there was in FMP13). So where/how to I select what font I want new databases to use?

I'm attempting to use conditional object display to display a set of buttons for only the active portal row. However, so far I've run into a limitation that was present in FM12 when using a data separation model, namely {{ActivePortalRowNumber}} and {{RecordNumber}} do not calculate from the same context. For example, if I have a 3 portal rows and I click into the first portal row, I can easily see that {RecordNumber}} displays the correct number of the record in relation to the portal row on my interface file. But when I try to add conditional formatting using: Get ( ActivePortalRowNumber ) = Get ( RecordNumber ) The result returns false for everything other than…

Just an FYI - not sure I seen this posted before. In the past on Mac you could use the eyedropper to pickup the color of an object regardless if it is on the layout or off the side of the layout. With 14 and the new color picker that is x platform the color picker will also inherit the color of the object including the same percentage of screening that objects on the left of layout. (or what you see is what you get ) This tool is using probably standard OS level resources to pick colors vs FMP picking from the objects css, as does the format painter would. Here is too screen shots ( sorry screen capture didn't grab the mouse pointer )

Hi, I am having a weird glitch with the 'sample a color from the screen' tool. Whenever I use it to select a color it shows a close up of the pointer and only allows me to choose 414141, the colour of the pointer, as a selection? I have included an image to show what I mean. Any ideas? Thanks.

Hello everyone, I am looking for a solution to execute a script of the kind of function: Get (ActiveHotKey) or how to make a keyboard shortcut without keyboard shortcuts. I actually looking for a way to align a text selection. Fm can do, for example on mac: - To center the text = Cmd + Shift + C - To align text left = Cmd + Shift + V - To align text to the right = Cmd + Shift + ù The goal is to do it by clicking a button to ease the life of the user. So I look for the way to transpose it by script. With thanks, regards, Gerard Desvoignes

I have not seen this mentioned anywhere - it's not listed in new features for 14 but I noticed that there is now a new popup Inspections > Text, right under the font. If I select Tacoma and then 'B' to bold it, this new popup changes to Negreta. If I unclick 'B' the popup changes back to plain. Many of the fonts have several variations listed, such as Arial. I wondered why it had been added. This 'font variation' popup works in tandem with the B, I, U icons so a guess ... I know some fonts COME already styled, such as Arial Bold. Maybe since FMI removed the fonts option, they've moved all 'available' fonts to this new variation popup. Another guess ... maybe i…

I have been playing around with Popovers the past couple weeks. I really, really want to get 14 running, if for no other reason than Popovers. Encountered some strange behavior in Portal Rows, but I haven't documented that yet. What I noticed most, though, was the ability to put Popovers on Popovers. Seemed a little too good to be true. As such, I have never been able to add any functionality to the second level Popover. It allows me to create it, but I can't even put a single script step on it. I can understand not allowing multi-level at this point. Odd that we can create the second level & not be able to do anything with it. Quite possible that I am …

Hello: Â I have a script that creates a PDF and places it on the desktop ( see attached screen shot ). Â I then go to a container field set to interactive mode and try to insert the PDF BUT I keep getting an error : Â "The file 128.pdf could not be found and is required to complete this operation." Â The Insert PDF script generates a 100 error : file is missing BUT I can see it on my desktop. Â What am I missing here? Â Dom Â

I am using an Interactive Container to display a preview of the PDF file, and it all works as expected, but I want to make it a bit more user friendly. In particular, automatically hiding the two side bars, zooming to stretch page, and the 'full screen' option. Is it possible to set this so the container always displays in this way first?

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Anyone seen this? My lovely styled fields for iPhone that certain perfectly served from FileMaker Pro 13 and accessed by FM Go 13, look great. But when I run them from my test FM Server 14 or from FMP 14 and access via FMP Go 14 on any size iPhones, the padding is wrong and hard to correct too. Anyone? We are writing up a fancy post at the filemaker.com forum and may have further information from that source which we will post here if not resolved by then.

Anyone have a good approach for creating "ghost text" on a layout? Example: User enters find mode and all of the field bodies have the field name in them until the user enters the field or adds text to the field. I need to figure out a way of adding this helper text to fields (mainly in Find mode but I can see other Browse mode uses for it as well) on layouts with limited space where field labels have been omitted. I have tried adding text over a field that has a conditional hide so that if Get ( ActiveFieldName ) reports that field the text hides. I haven't moved on to expanding the hide logic to cover when the field has content but not in focus but that's the next s…

We have one computer that is not opening a snapshot link correctly. It only happens when logged in as a Standard user and does not occur when we log in as an administrator. When we double click on the Snapshot Link (which is a link to a remote database), we get the window attached. Â Any ideas? Â Thanks, Ryan

I'm using FMP advanced 13.0v1 and I was wondering if there was a way to use a web viewer to display (and interact) with html files located on my computer rather than the web. I'm sort of new to some of this but it seems that when setting a custom web address that I'm unable to just set a path to an html file located in a folder on my computer. I've tried using this as a path (/Users/ComputerName/Desktop/folder/file.html) but the page just comes up blank. I'm sure this is a super basic question and I just need to be pointed in the right direction. Any ideas?

Is there any advantage (from a caching standpoint) to making a background image part of a custom theme element compared to repeatedly assigning the same image to multiple layout elements? What I am really trying to understand is if I use the same image on multiple layouts if FileMaker will treat them as different images and cache them separately.

I think this is a simple question but I haven't been able to find an answer. When I am growing the entries in a drop-down list, the highlight colour is a deep blue making it difficult to read the text on the list. How can you change this? I've checked the Inspector options and researched on the web but can't find an answer. Thanks in advance. Tony

Hello - I just noticed portals (and empty containers) don't slide if inside a Tab or Sliding panel control. Are there any workarounds? Thanks Kindly

I'm having difficulty replicating some of the features provided by the supplied themes, particularly the Enlightened theme and drop down lists. Each state of the drop down (normal, hover, pressed, in focus) can of course have an independent set of display characteristics, however I notice that the enlightened theme drop downs also show the arrow background as a different colour to the field entry area. It's very subtle, but the drop down arrow goes white in hover mode, whereas all other modes are a very pale grey. When I chose a graphic as a fill object then it highlighted this even more. What I cannot understand is: 1. Why I cannot create the same effect with…

We have a matter table and a correspondence table. Each matter record can be associated with multiple correspondence records, related by matter number. Each correspondence record has a correspondence name and a date. On the main layout for the matter table, I would like to show the most recent correspondence record for the currently viewed matter, in uneditable fashion. What I'm doing now is putting a portal on the layout, with a single row and without scroll arrows. The portal is defined to show related records from the correspondence table, sorted in descending order by date (such that the most recent related record is displayed). This does indeed work gr…

Hi Everyone, I have an animated GIF (spinner icon) in a web viewer that I display while running a script to show the system is busy. One of the script steps inserts a file as a reference. This step takes about 5 to 10 seconds to complete. I have noticed that if the file path uses an address with a mapped drive it is much quicker than a UNC address, unfortunately I need to use a UNC file path. When the script gets to the insert file as reference it stops the animated gif and causes the web viewer to go blank until the insert file step completes. Any ideas on a fix to keep the GIF animated while the insert file as reference completes or any other solutions? Thanks f…

I know that I can control whether or not a popover instantly appears or "pops" up by using the script step "set script animation" on or off. This works great when the popover is being triggered by a script but is it possible to turn off the animation when it's being opened by a popover button?

Hi all, I'm using a single CSS theme for all layouts in a given file. I'd like to know if there's a quick way to identify any styles in that theme that aren't being used anywhere in the file. Thanks in advance! -Kent

I have three checkboxes (may add more later on) describing tasks performed on a regular basis Stopped Processes Ran EV Updates Batch Compressed I also have a Work Completed text field. I would like to check a box and have its text automatically entered into a new line in the Work Completed text field. Any help please?

I am inputting Windows Product Keys which contain 25 alphanumeric characters in blocks of 5 characters seperated by hypens " - " I wish to type the product key without the hypens and have a calculation on the field to add the hyphens every five characters For example I type 123AB456CD789EF012GH345IJ FM replaces the text with 123AB-456CD-789EF-012GH-345IJ I have seen this calculation for phone numbers, but does not work directly with the addition of letters Replace ( Replace ( Filter ( Self ; 1234567890 ) ; 7 ; 0 ; "-" ) ; 10 ; 0 ; "-" ) The output would be 123AB456CD789EF012GH345IJ123456-78-9012345 Any help would be great!

I need to have access to FileMaker pro's regular icons. Are those available to us to when designing new layouts. I am not interested in getting free icons but use the FMP ones. However, if accessible I do not know how to get to them. Could someone help me? I am using MAC's. Thanks again. Daniel

I am running Filemaker Server11 (standard) with Filemaker 11 Pro and Filemaker 11 Pro Advance. My company has asked to create a dashboard that will display information from with multiple databases. Some possible information: How many orders/value of orders that are still in house How many quotes were created and open (not booked) How many orders have problems Each one of those would come from a different database, however they are all linked together, Quotes->Orders->Problems. Any ideas how this might be accomplished? I'm at a loss on how I would do this. if there's a 3rd party software that can be customized I can research into that too. …

Hello all: I was wondering if someone can shed some light on the SnapShotLink script step. I was able to create a SnapShotLink to the Temporary Path and send it in an email. All fine and good. Now the problem. When I open up the SnapShot file it opens up to a very small window which just happens to be the same size as the floating menu pallette I created when a user first logs into the database. Question : Is there any way to preserve the original window size of the SnapShotLink when it was created? Hope that make sense. Dom

On a customer layout we have a portal displaying the names related contacts. Each portal row has a popover button on it that when popped will give the operator more detail about the contact. The addition of a new related contact is scripted. It sets the customer id in a variable, flips to a contacts utility table, creates the new contact record, sets the customer id from the variable and then flips back to the main customer record. Using the go to object step I'd like it to pop the popover from the newly created record. Instead it always pops the popover from the first record in the portal. I've tried Go To Last Portal Record and then pop. I can't seem to …

I’m working in a database that needs to be moved to the top of the display when a certain layout is entered. Obviously I’m using a OnLayoutEnter trigger to call a script including the step Move/Resize Window [Current Window; Top: 0]. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work reliably because almost every user has a multi-display setup and places the database on the larger (not necessarily primary) display. So, when it sets the window top to 0, it uses 0 from the primary display, which is only very rarely identical to 0 on the display where the window actually resides. Anyone have any bright ideas for moving the window to 0 on the relevant display? (Note: cross-platform, FM…

Looking for the proper syntax for a script for button that I have created with a Popover. Once they click on the button it will create the records that they have entered in the field, but first I would like it to check if that record currently exists. I'm just trying to figure out the proper way to reference the fields along with the lookup and return error if the record exists. Also I would like to create error checking to see if they click off from the popover the popover will ask do you wish to cancel this record or create and then clear the proper variables or fields when they go in again. Thanks Paul

Hello everyone, I am familiar with using Popovers, and have implemented them into many solutions so far. I am experiencing some strange behaviour in that the popover buttons do not display on iPad... they work fine on Mac, PC, and iPhone, but are completely missing from iPad... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Just wondering if someone can tell me -- is there an easy way to locate "Named Objects"? I know you can show buttons, popover buttons and fields with script triggers etc BUT I can't seem to find an easy way to locate a named object without clicking into each object on the layout. Anyone? Thanks. Dom

Hi Maybe this is a bug, or just an undocumented feature... I set up a popover but it won't display the whole popover when there is a container below it that is within the space required for the popover - but only in BROWSE mode AND when the container is configured for interactive content. The popover gets a scroll bar instead. When the container is configured for IMAGE content it works It works in FIND mode, with either container configuration It works in WebDirect, with either container configuration It DOES NOT work in FMPro 13.0v3 Any ideas? Thanks

I have a layout that you enter data in. As you enter the layout a script triggers to create a new record. Two buttons on the top "save" and "do not save" have scripts attached to them. "Save" takes you to the main layout and "do not save" deletes the newly created recorded and takes you to the main layout. Is there a better way to handle this? This layout is a form and the idea is not to see the other records created. Cheers.

I've placed a popover button in a portal row. For some reason the popover is only visible in the first record of the portal. The button is correctly sized and placed within the portal boundaries properly. In a number of other portals I have this working but for this one portal it fails. Suggestions? There is also a portal on the popover. It seems like that's the issue.

I'm a newbie and would like to use a a popover in the same way that I have been using windows in the past. I'm confused as to how to do this if the data I need is from a related table/record. Here is an example of a window that I would rather turn into a popover: In this the window is a new layout from a related table (That's actually a related table from an "external data source"). It would create a new record based on information from the originating record: New Window[] Go to Layout ["Event Details Admin Sui" (SampleEvents)] Show/Hide Status Area [Hide] Adjust Window [Resize to Fit] Enter Find Mode[] Set Field [sampleEvents::Event ID; Get(ScriptParameter…

Hi. Is there a way to open a database so that automatically opens in its own window and not within the main (fmp13) application window. A bit like kiosk mode but in it's own resizable window. The reason being so that it would (look like it) launches like a independent application and not within fmp. I understand that the user would need a copy of filmaker pro on their system. Creating a runtime is not really an option as it needs to be multiuser. Can any one help. Or even suggest a different way to acheive the same effect. Thanks.

Could someone please tell me why my portal isn't printing correctly on the Print_Itinerary layout? Â Â Even though there are two flights listed in the portal on the Trips layout, it insists on printing the first record twice. Â The file is located here for download. Â Â

I'm trying implement a feature on a list view using FileMaker Go that works similar to the iOS Mail app. When you swipe to the left, a Delete button shows. It's nothing super fancy, but what I've noticed is that when I swipe, the control slides for all records rather than just the one I want to see the delete button for. Is this normal behavior? A bug? Is there a way to force the slide control to only slide for the active record?

Hello Everyone, Just registered to the forum and this is my first post and very new to Filemaker. I was watching a video on the youtube about popover as data entry by Martha Zink, but theres no sample file on that video so what I did while watching Im also taking note the scripts steps she used, but as Im implementing its been a challenge to me because I cant make it work. Any help that you can extend is highly appreciated. Please find attached sample file. Please also move my post if I posted it on the wrong section of the forum. Thank you so much. Popover.zip

I frequently create contracts for customers that are signable on Go, then convert them to PDF's. Frequently these contracts have bullets and/or numbering. Is it just me, or is there no way to add bullets and numbering when directly writing text on a layout? Or is there maybe some work-around? I would appreciate any help. Thank you!

In Filemaker 13 I thought there was going to be an easier way to determine screen resolution and automatically resize accordingly. I have layouts that are designed for different resolutions. I suppose I can use a Get function to see what resolution is used on startup & point to a specific layout for that device (i.e. desktop, iPhone, iPad, laptop). BUT I thought in 13 there was an easier way so the layout auto resizes. Any help or explanation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hi I would like to know if there is anyway to disable the highlight function when I click on a button? I don't want to see that highlight whenever I click. Is there a way to remove the highlight somehow? Thanks

I'm trying to make a UI element that would mimic a search field with dynamic results being displayed in a popover button below the field, sort of like http://www.seedcode.com/fm-search-results/ However, I'm unable to get the popover button to display if anything outside of the popover has focus. I assume this is a feature of the way that popovers work, but is anybody aware of a workaround that would enable me to have an active field outside of the popover while maintaining the active popover state?

Before FM 13, we have to display close to 100 fields on the layout. With FM 13, we can now 'hide' most of the fields either in Popover or slider. I called this "display-on-demand ".. Questions: Does 'hiding' fields in FM 13 improves the performance against having to visibly display all the fields in the layout ?

I have a slide control and I'm trying to recreate the button effect of the starter solution Contacts. In that solution, the buttons Business Address and Personal Address when clicked (go to objects) either slide 1 or slide 2. I got this working great, but I'm trying to have 1 button fade/change when 1 object/slide is selected and vice versa. It wasn't really clear to me how to do this, I looked at conditional formatting, etc, not sure what to do. Any ideas?

Just started experimenting with the Troi dialog plugin, which allows for specifying the position of dialog boxes. I'm trying to decide whether the user experience is better when a) dialog boxes show up in the same position in relationship to the filemaker window, so that if the user moves the main filemaker window future dialog boxes also move accordingly, or dialog boxes show up in the same position in relationship to the computer screen regardless of where the filemaker window is. Filemaker's own dialog boxes follow the latter method, but the former makes sense, especially on larger screens. I'm curious if anyone has any experience with, or an opinion on, this. Tha…

I got a request by some people wanting other versions, so is anyone else interested in a special "dotfmp Edition" of those? http://www.herrfriedrich.com/lang-en/goodies Just drop us a note with the color (CMYK) you prefer!

I set up a repeating field in my layout with borders and vertical lines to separate each cell. They look fine in browse mode. However, all borders and vertical lines disappear when I switch to preview mode. Is it a bug, or is there anyway to show the border and vertical lines of a repeating field in preview mode? I use FMP 13 Adv. with the same behaviour in OSX Maverick and Windows 7.

One of my favorite features in 13 is by far the Hide objects feature so that you can hide an object when certain conditions are met. The results save hours of countless other workarounds that we've employed in the past, such as hidden tab panels. or making text 500 points or 1 point and try to get it to blend in to the background. It's taken me while to articulate an issue I have had when working with this feature. We know the string that you enter will be evaluated to a boolean result and TRUE or 1 will indeed hide the object FALSE or 0 (Zed for those outside the States ) will show the object. This is just fine for most objects, but I have found that many time…

I like the new popover button. But is it possible to have the same thing happen when something other than a button is clicked (eg making a label or field into a button)? Thanks, Fed

All buttons and icons are stored in the Interface layout in container fields. Then they are used in other layouts. In my iMac, they all appear with smooth and transparent corners. When I move the databases on Windows 7, I end up with white edges. Rectangle buttons were created with FileMaker tools and then pasted in the container fields. If I paste any buttons in a layout, they look fine. Where is the catch? Please advise

I am a bit disappointed by the implementation of the menus in the sliders. What is to my liking are the embossed buttons I've seen on some implementations from the starter solution. But I have yet to manage to keep the menu or should I say a button, a series of buttons, when one of them stays illuminated changes colour when you're in the appropriate slider pane. The best I have managed is to use a small different colour line underneath them, close to what OS X does with the dock. But this is less than ideal. Having said that I think it's quite possible that it can be done but I have not figured out how to do it.

Within the go application of the iPad there is a guide, an introduction of sorts to that application which includes a button that you press and you get a pop over with your current GPS location and your place on that map. Now for the life of me I can figure out where the pop over pops from? It calls two scripts, which I have read and I have understood, although I'm not so sure, if they are the ideal implementation. But I really can't tell what they are doing with the pop over.

I am trying to follow the implementation of the Invoices starter solution , but somehow I can't seem to get it to work. In addition I looked at the starter solution and I can't see the objects (the slider panes) named as they appear in the code (a simple case code like this eg for the previous button: Case ( GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "5" ; "IsFrontPanel" ) ; 4 ;Â GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "4" ; "IsFrontPanel" ) ; 3 ;Â GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "3" ; "IsFrontPanel" ) ; 2 ;Â GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "2" ; "IsFrontPanel" ) ; 1 )). Am I missing something out?

Heads up: Our users have found that value lists in popup menus that formerly ignored pre-pended characters for sorting, now respect them. For instance, in FileMaker 12, values that were pre-pended with an asterisk were displayed in Alpha-numeric order by default — and the pre-pended asterisk was ignored: Now, in FileMaker 13, these characters are included in the default sort order, so all of the pre-pended values are now together at the top of the list: If anyone has suggestions on how I can restore the previous behavior (short of reverting back to FileMaker 12!), I'm all "ears". Thanks in advance, - - Scott

Here is a sample file that has standard field labels Left of Field / Top of Field, Vertical data entry or horizontal data entry. I also added a few "custom styles" that inset the label in to the data entry field so that it is "one object". There are a few caveats regarding how to style the field or label so that the label doesn't disappear when the focus is in the field. OR when creating and editing a layout some options will resize the label container thus forcing you to resize the label to match the size of the field. I added a simple survey and curious how people prefer to view and interact with labels and fields based on their design of their solution. …

I have one layout with 3 'Tabs' - Client, Contacts, Achievements. For context, a client can have many contacts (portals used here) and likewise with Achievements. Each of these 3 'Tabs' has a separate layout to create a new record. This is all to be used on an iPad so if anyone has any better ideas I'd be really interested to know your thoughts. I would like to use one '+' button in the HEADER, as opposed to a button on each 'Tab', to add a new record which would go to a specific layout to create the new record. I can't seem to find a script that will give me the 'NAME' of the 'Tab' which I could then have a GoToLayout function. So if I were viewing the Client 'Ta…

I'm looking for a plugin that would allow image annotation. We store photos in container fields and I would like the enduser to be able to add text or arrows to the photos in Browse mode. We have a runtime solution and I thought by now in Filemaker 12 we would have the ability via some plugin. Or anyone have any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Caroline

I've finished a set of handcrafted icons to replace the current ones in FileMaker v11 and upwards. http://www.herrfriedrich.com/lang-en/goodies Enjoy!

Hi there.. is it possible to change the colour of the "X" in a checkbox field? At the moment it is black and I would like the "X" to be a different colour. Cheers

One of the things that you need to do to take advantage of FileMaker 13 styles and custom themes is to apply styles to objects. It will go faster if you can select the objects you want quickly in a batch and then do something with that batch like assign the default style or another style. ​Cmd-Option-A will select all fields. That's nice but it would be so much more helpful if it was a little more precise like - select all the fields with drop-down menus. I was thinking that maybe a special keyboard shortcut with an extra key held down might do this. Hope springs eternal. I've tried Cmd-Shift-Option-A but no luck there. I tried Control as the extra key too. Anyone…

I just upgraded to FMpro 13. I was wondering if it is possible to use the Get(TriggerGestureInfo) function in a script to do some sort of function. For example performing a two finger tap on a portal record will delete the record or something like that. I am trying out ways to implement the Get (TriggerGestureInfo) into my database but I don't know how to work it.

I have a layout for my Contacts, in list view. Each row contains the Contact Name and a POPOVER to edit the Contact information. Â When the list is longer (beyond the iPhone 4s screen size), click the popover to edit, the title bar seems to slide up (see pics), and I see a single field fully, click 'next' and it scrolls to the next field... I am happy with that. Â Â However, when the list does not exceed the iPhone 4s screen size, click the popover to edit, the title bar does not seem to slide up (see pics), and I am only able to see a portion of the field (which makes it difficult to type information in), click 'next' and it scrolls to the next field (again onl…

a. A few elements simply refuse to stay put, to their anchoring to the border, the left on in this example. However when they are on the header their behaviour is the desired (and required) one. b. This isn’t a bug. I am implementing a slider pane with buttons on to that go to the slider pages via “go to object” commands. So far so good. These buttons have been formated for appearances when active, hovering and pressed. However how do I get them to change colour hue when the user is in their slider panel/page? FM has implemented it in the invoices starter solution, and I am soon having at loot at it, but I am aware fm starter solutions don’t always use appropriate or …

I wanted to refresh my db look by adding new oval buttons made from Photoshop but I cannot get rid of the white space. I imported them in Container fields. I did these steps: - Under File menu / Import Records / Folder ... - File Type = picture My buttons are saved in PNG format Any comments?

The new slide transition effects when switching between records and multi-panels brings us a giant step closer to producing a solution that looks and feels much closer to native apps. One thing that appears to still be missing is a sliding effect when switching between layouts. Has anyone figured out a way to achieve this? I am assuming that it's not currently possible because of performance issues?

I want to disable edit layout so that user cant edit it.But they can manage scripts.

I want to execute some files from cmd e.g i want to execute a file hello.php from C:xampphtdocs folder.So how to say cmd that u have go in C:xampphtdocs folder I mean how to go to specific folder in cmd. I try this "Send Event [ open document/application; "cmd.exe /C:xampphtdocs" ]" and Send Event [ open document/application; "cmd.exe C:xampphtdocs" ]. Bur its not working

I want to show vertical scroll bar in text box.This text box is ready only mean Enter browse mode is not mark.How to perform this . When I mark Include vertical scroll bar->if this text box is not read only then its shows scroll bar if I select it as ready only then nothing is happen.

I have used dialog plugin and previously used Troi. Is there a plugin that allows dropdown calendars in a custom dialog?

Hi, I'm not sure where I should place this post, to if I made a mistake then I do apologize. I develop on Mac and strangely enough all my customers have been Mac's which I've loved. Now, however, I have this new customer on a PC and when he opens his file, he gets two filemaker windows ... It looks similar to the Mac; meaning the main application window opens but it's movable ... huh?? and is extremely confusing to my use where the mac it is not. The main application window is stationary ... Then, within this main application window on the PC, my solution opens into my solution window but the layout doesn't fit and it has an additional frame which, when ha…

Greets, all: Â As the title says, I'm having trouble with the vertical rule separating two columns in a report--I just can't get it to rest on top of the horizontal rule in the footer, so there's a gap between the bottom of it and the horizontal rule. (See attached.) Any ideas? Â TIA for your help! Rich