Custom Menus

Hi, new member here - I'm wondering, I've created more than 10 scripts and I'd love to be able to assign custom keyboard commands to each one. Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance!

My head is spinning trying to grasp the implication of creating and installing various menu sets. I have a pretty simple situation, with a 'Staff' menu set that severely restricts menu accesss in all layouts. I have the Staff menu defined to display when Get(AccountPrivilegeSetName) = "Staff". That seems to work okay. All other logins enjoy "Full Access" privileges and the standard Filemaker menu set, which is set as the default for the file. This is all working okay. The thing is, I have two layouts a 'home page' and a 'preferences' settings page where i don't want to allow record creation or deletion. I thought I could create a custom menu set, called say "Re…

I have a table that I want to use for preference settings and another I want to use as a 'Home' page. These should both be '1-record' layouts. Is there any simpler way of preventing record creation (and deletion) other than creating custom menus with the 'New Record' / Delete record commands turned off? I'd guess probably not, but sometimes I discover I do things the hard way, so would appreciate a little confirmation!

Hello, I have a database with a custom menu as default, it works when I open the database but when I change the layout the standard menu appears. can I setup the default menu in all the database layouts? please let me know thanks

I'm creating a user log-in with minimal access to menus. I've created a custom menu based on the 'File' menu for some essential functions, adding a few commands like "New Window" that I want staffers to be able to use. I've created a Custom Menu Set called 'Staff' and have a script step setting it as the default menu set when a person logs in on an account with 'Staff' privileges. Everything seems to work okay with all that. EXCEPT . . . the 'TOOLS' menu shows up along with the File and Help menus. How come? It seems really peculiar to have the Script debugger and Data viewer and Developer Utilities on offer there for people who aren't even allowed to create…

Hello I am experiencing a strange issue with custom menu and CTRL+F keyboard shortcut when changing keyboard layout to albanian. The custom menu is basically a copy of the default menu with some items left out, not the view mode though. But when I press CTRL+F nothing happens. If instead I go to the view menu and click on find mode it switches to it and I can see the CTRL+F shortcut on the side of the menu. Also, if I first go to layout mode by pressing CTRL+L then it works by pressing CTRL+F but will not work back again. If instead I switch to the default menu, all works fine. Issue is verified on two PC, both with Windows 7 and FM11

Hi, Any assistance here I would be grateful ... I can not get my formatting bar to "Un-Gray" itself when my users log in and the custom menu loads. I've set my "Formatting Bar ( ON )" in my script ?? And when I'm logged in as "Full Access" I have no problems ?? The formatting bar is available clicking into the field. I've attached my customer menu, where I've even added the "Formatting Bar" but all it does is "Hides and Un-Hides" ... but the "Formatting Bar" remains grayed out, unavailable. I can not allow full access with users and I must have access to the "Formatting Bar" ?? when my custom menu set loads. What is going on ?? Thank you.

Hi, Any assistance here I would be grateful ... I can not get my formatting bar to "Un-Gray" itself when my users log in and the custom menu loads. I've set my "Formatting Bar ( ON )" in my script ?? And when I'm logged in as "Full Access" I have no problems ?? The formatting bar is available clicking into the field. I've attached my customer menu, where I've even added the "Formatting Bar" but all it does is "Hides and Un-Hides" ... but the "Formatting Bar" remains grayed out, unavailable. I can not allow full access with users and I must have access to the "Formatting Bar" ?? when my custom menu set loads. What is going on ?? Thank you.

I am showing a layout in Preview prior to printing. However once one this layout (in Preview mode) I can not figure out a way for the user to actually print it. 1. I have set the Available Menu Commands to Editing, as I do not want the users to accidentally delete all records. However this greys out the Print and Save as PDF options. This also seems to remove the ability to select File > Print. 2. Additionally because I am in Preview mode I can not add any buttons to the layout without having them appear on the print out. I am want to avoid the work of creating custom menus as there are a lot of files. Printing from Preview mode would seem to be a relat…

In Table view, if the user's Privilege set has "Available Menu Commands" set to "Editing Only" then they can not sort fields by clicking the table column header (the "Sort Ascending" and "Sort Descending" popup menu items are missing). I've tried installing a custom menu set that has the "Sort" menu item available, but "Editing Only" seems to override this. If I use a Custom Menu Set and also set Available Menu Commands to "All" then the Sort Ascending and Sort Descending popups are available in Table View, but the user also gets access to a bunch of confusing / dangerous options such as "Add Leading Grand Summary" and others. Is there way to …

I've been reading up on the Saved Finds. I knew it was an available feature, but it was disabled. I did find that Custom Menus, pre-FM10, would have this case. We are on 14.0.4. Converted from 11. Files were built in 5 or before. FM Server is up to date. Using Windows. I have full Admin privileges. It is available for the Standard Menu Set. My problem is that, when I try to Edit or Create an Custom Menu, Saved Finds is not an available option. I can even try to build a new Custom Menu from scratch. No luck. Any suggestions?

Hi, I've created a custom menu that shows only the Help Menu (streamlined) to users. The navigation is carried out within the layouts themselves. When I've tested it and logged in as a user, I am also getting the Tools menu appear. How can I get rid of this? In custom menus I've defaulted it to use my new menu. TIA Ann

I'm trying to set one of my custom menus' label to be the Account Name, however I want this to appear in Uppercase, or possibly even title case if I decide. I've tried using TextStyleAdd ( get ( accountname ) ; Uppercase ) however it doesn't do anything, leading me to believe custom menus can't have styles added to them, which I suppose makes sense. I've also tried creating a new global field and applying the style to that field and using that field as the title override for the menu - nada. Any ideas on making this work?

Hello,  The file I'm working on has a Custom Menu set that takes over the entire file for all users (all privileges). However, as in the attached screenshot, some menu items have been disabled. Some of these functions are critically necessary. I am aware that developers cannot disable items except through privilege sets and I have check all privilege sets. This is not the issue.  I tried overriding specific items with scripts/ duplicated FM menus and this hasn't helped either.  The FM documentation doesn't readily indicate what would cause menu items to be disabled. Any pointers or solutions that could help re-instate those items would be greatly appreci…

While I have some limited experience with custom menus, I can't seem to find a way to affect the "Save as Excel" button that FileMaker places on the toolbar. I want it (in certain cases) to call a script rather than the standard export. Is there a way to do this? Can some kind soul point me in the right direction?

Hi: Is it possible to dissable the shortcut to duplicate records (Ctrl+D). The D is beside the F (for Ctrl+F = Find) and I duplicate records by mistake from time to time. Thanks Carlos

I'm at a complete loss. Â Really simple... custom menu set, custom 'edit' menu - see attached. Â If I insert the Paste command, or Paste without style command into the menu, it's dimmed... can not be used. Â Cut and Copy work fine... can't paste. Â I can't see any reason why this is the case... it's gotta be something simple? Â To test... I put the "Omit Record" command in the menu - that works fine. Â So it's just paste commands.

I can locate and edit the submenu name but how do I edit the items that are in the submenu? For example, how could I remove the keyboard shortcut for "Find Again" which is in the Find/Replace submenu?

Can you copy a custom menu set between files? This would save me a lot of work.

Hi,  I would like to know if I can remove the "Filemaker Preferences" in my custom menu.  I've created a menu set with no actions � completely blank.  However, I still get the "Preferences" and the "Help" ??  Is there anyway I can remove them.  Please see pic.  Thank you.  Tom

We had been experiencing issues with users who use short-cut key sequences where they were duplicating records using ctrl-D when trying to put Filemaker into Find mode using ctrl-F.  Our simple solution was to establish a custom menu set where the Duplicate Record option was removed from the Records menu, and set this as the default Menu Set for the file. Shortly after this change, one of our users reported that she could no longer save or edit Saved Finds as these options were now greyed out. Returning to the particular menu set, we found that there was an option to add [saved Finds] as a menu item, and the Saved Finds icon on the Status Bar worked as it does…

Hello All: Â I'm really perplexed on how this might have happened but my Filemaker 13 Pro Advanced menu bar has the label "Night Wing" where the label "Scripts" should be ( see enclosed png file ). Â If I click on the "Night Wing" it shows all my scripts BUT I was wondering what I may have done to change the application Menu Bar. Â I'm happen to be a big fan of Ray Cologon but I have no idea how I might have done this. Â ( lol ) Â I'm truly stumped. Â No offense to Ray but I'd like to change it back. Â Anyone? Â DomÂ

I have looked and I want to duplicate the default menu set and then change just a few things on it. But it will not let me. Do I really have to create a new menu set and copy all the menu items again into it?

My application generates a report to a new floating document window, enters Preview mode and displays the status bar. The status bar has buttons for navigating through the report, printing, saving to Excel or PDF, etc. All that's just what I need. But below the button the status area includes controls to change the layout, switch the view, or exit preview mode. I don't want any of those capabilities available to the user. How can I eliminate this portion of the status bar? Or is there some other approach I need to take? And, is there a way to add a "close window" button to this status bar?

In my solution I am applying custom menus based on a calculation, using the 'specify' option for 'Install menu when' The basis of the calc is Install menu set when [isEmpty (GlobalField)] My GlobalField is definitely a global FIELD (not $$var) and I use this to track whether a script is running or not. If a script is running then I want the custom menu to be removed, so I set the GlobalField during the script execution. Unfortunately the menu does not disappear as intended, however the calculation is correct. I tried manually entering data into GlobalField and still the menu does not remove. If I change window mode then the menu responds and is removed…

I have set up 3 very simple security accounts. 1 - Full access and 2 - Data Entry only. These are the stock security accounts that are included in FM12. They have not been modified. If I log in with a Data Entry privilege when I go to a layout and enter Preview mode with the Status Toolbar showing the PDF and Print Icons are greyed out. With a Full Access privilege they are available.

I'm not sure this is the proper forum group to post this . . but here it is anyway. I'm creating a custom menu set for my application and need to 'disable' or 'hide' the TOOLS menu feature. I don't see anyway to remove this, consequently the ability to reset the custom menu to the standard menu is available as well as the DDR information. Any suggestions related to removing this feature would be welcome.

In Filemaker 13: The help says go to FILE > MANAGE > CUSTOM MENUS er.... CUSTOM MENUS not found Wendy

Hi,  I have two privilege sets; Admin and Staff.  All I'm trying to do is, when a user logs in as "STAFF" i install a menu set called "STAFF" real simple.  And it works :-)  However, I need this menu set to stay put until I runs a script to do otherwise.  But for some strange reason, after my script sets the menu to "STAFF" everything is perfect until I click a button to goto another layout and all of a sudden Filemaker standard menu set load  WHY!!!  Can't the menu set stay put until I runs another script setting it back to Filemaker standard set.  What is the point if you have to psychoanalyze the process for 47 hours.  I mean come on!!! …

Can anyone think of the pro's / con's between: a) Custom script attached to "close window" (set in a custom menu) Custom script attached to OnWindowClose (set in File Options, script triggers)

I have created a custom menu set that swaps the shortcuts for "paste" and "paste without formatting" (command+v now becomes "Paste Without Formatting" and command+shift+alt+v now becomes "Paste"). This works fine except for when a dialog box is presented to the user. For some reason, the "Paste Without Formatting" function is disabled and the only option available to the user is the normal paste command, so in essence the paste shortcut (command+v) is now disabled. A quick search of Google returns no results, but is this an issue with Filemaker or is there a known limitation of shortcuts and dialog boxes?

I am using FM Advanced 12 03 on Windows and Mac.   If I attach a custom menu to a script that creates a Preview Window, the ability to page through the found set is grayed out!  Here is the script:   If I don't have a Custom Menu, the user has full access to the Filemaker Menu.  Is there a way to have both the 'record scroll' icon in the Status bar AND have a custom menu?  Thanks for your thoughts.  Â

Hi all! Admittedly, I am just now starting to work more fervently with FileMaker 12. I was doing just that yesterday when I ran into an odd behavior that may or may not be a bug, but I wanted to get some feedback from the forum members on. ie, has anyone else seen it and how did you deal with it. The scenario: FileMaker Pro 12 Advanced. I used custom menus to script the Close menu item. For the sake of testing, I made the script that the Close menu item calls a single step: Close Window[Current Window]. Two windows open and visible by the user, Window A and Window B. The symptom: If the active window is Window A and the user clicks…

I've used FM10 for years but just recently (finally) got FM12. With custom menus, I can attach my own script, easy. So I attach to the "close window" command my own "close window check" script. Easy. And I attach to the "find mode" command my own "enter find mode" script. Easy. Now, within any other scripts, if there's a "close window" script step, the "close window check" script is triggered because it's set to do that within my custom menu. This is a pain but you can get around that in various ways. I used global variables to turn on and off "script triggers". But what I don't get is: Within any other scripts, if there's a "enter find mode" scrip…

Is there any way via custom menus to disable hitting Return to perform a find from Find Mode? I'm trying to allow Find Mode access to a certain group of users but I want to keep them within the found set, so I thought disabling Perform Find and Extend Found Set in the Requests menu (leaving only Constrain Found Set) would do it. Perform Find is greyed out in the toolbar, but hitting Return still invokes it. The Perform Find menu command doesn't list anything as a keyboard shortcut in custom menus, either. I know that I could create a script and attach it to the Find Mode menu command, but I was hoping this would be a quick-and-dirty way to give them what they wa…

I have a six file solution with hundreds, maybe a thousand or more layouts. When a full-privilege user opens the solution I want the standard FM menus to display. When any other user opens the solution I want a set of Custom Menus to display. Can I do that? How?

Is it possible to have a custom menu appear once the user right-clicks a portal row?

I am running 12. 03 Advanced on Mac and Windows On my Mac, I created a custom menu which has, as it's last option under File... the menu item "CLose Application". When I save the app to a flashdrive and then open it on my WIndows 7 computer there, under File... is 'Close Application" AND under it EXIT. Question: "Where did this EXIT command come from? It is not part of my Custom Menu set. And, "Is there some way to get rid of it?" "Is it part of Windows?" Thanks Perplexed Ron

Matt Petrowski produced this excellent video. I thought I would pass it along. http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/87415-easy-custom-menus/

I just discovered that I can customize my toolbar in FM11. It's been a great discovery! As I was playing around in the customize window, I noticed that the toolbar screen has four buttons - New, Rename, Delete, Reset. Does this mean I can create new toolbars? The button seems to be greyed out, but why else would they have a button labeled "New"? Really, my ultimate goal is to have a toolbar that either has scripts on it, has a button that will open a new file, or both. If there is no way to create a second toolbar for this, is there a way to do either of those on the main status toolbar? Thanks, Joe

I am using FM 12 adv v01 Is it possible to design a menu and then 'group' some menu items by separating them from other menu items by using a special menu character like '-' ?? ( I tried "-" but FM took that as descriptive text and produced an error) thanks Found it. There is a 'separator' choice in menu creation. I over looked it. As usual, after I post a question, I find an answer....

Working in FileMaker 12, Win. We have set up custom menus with limited choices and made it the default for all files. There are 9 files in the solution, hundreds of layouts and there are two accounts that I want to use the full menu set. I have created a script that checks the account name and runs a script with the install menu step as needed. Each file has a copy of this script. I have set the script to trigger on OnFirstWindowOpen and OnWindowOpen in the File Options menu. The change seems to stick for awhile. Entering find mode and performing a search seems to be one event that will cause it to switch back to the file default limited custom menu. I don'…

I basically have a very wordy legend. It lists over 31 locations and descriptions of the location. With both the location and the description the legend takes up 2 inches of my screen (in the footer part). I want to reduce the size of the legend by having the description text appear only when I roll the mouse over the location text. The legend is simply a text box in the footer, it is not a field or anything special. Does anyone know if there is a rollover function or maybe a better idea of how to have a legend that takes up less room?

Is there any way to Restore Custom Menu Set 1 to a database? I duplicated the Custom Menu Set 1 and then modified some of the commands, such as File Copy, not realizing that I was modifying the command both in my new Custom Menu Set and in the default Custom Menu Set 1. Now I need to get back a menu command and I can't figure out how to do it. Help please. Thanks

Dear All - Please Help. I have a file with four Custom Menu Sets. In the Custom Menus dialog, at the bottom, I have [standard Filemaker Menus] specified as the default for the file. On my layouts, I have [File Default] specified as the Menu Set. But Filemaker STILL keeps switching the menus when I move from one layout to another. Is there any way round this bug? I am in FM Pro Advanced 11.0v1. Many many thanks in advance, W.

Hi. If I create a custom menu in fm pro advance. Will it display / work in filemaker pro as well? thanks.

I would like to add my custom icons to the stats toolbar in FM 11 Advanced. Is this possible?

Under Custom Menus, I've added a Menu Item to the File Menu that runs a Script. From Mac or PC, you can select this Menu Item, and it will successfully run the Script. But I added a Keyboard Shortcut ( Control + I, that's the letter i) and the Keyboard Shortcut only works from a Mac not a PC. Any ideas why? Under "Include on Platform", both Mac and PC are checked. Using Script Debugger, I can see the script does run activate at all.

Dear FM community, I am a new FM user so please be patient if my question seems obvious or if the thing I want to do is impossible. Let me explain what I need. I need to set up a database for my company. We organize activities and I want to track what activities users participate in. Therefore, I would like to create a drop down list where the activities that my companies are listed. Since a person might participate in several activities, I need to save several activities. This is how I imagine the page: Activity: (Drop-down list) (Save Button) List of activities that X attended: ------- Underneath the List of Activities that X attended, I wo…

Hello all, Is it not possible to suppress/disable the FileMaker Pro>Quit FileMaker Pro command in a particular layout? I'm developing a solution that has several modal/popup data entry layouts and it would be bad if the user quit FileMaker before the data entry was properly committed and certain housekeeping tasks could run. Do you suggest I install an OnLayoutExit trigger that could intervene (assuming it would execute before the app quits)? Thanks very much for your suggestions and/or workarounds.

Hi! This is my first post, I'll try not to bother u with stupid questions! (I hope this is the place for this question) I m developing my very first FM application! It s going quite slow but I m making some progress. My question is the following: I m hiding status bar so I have no way to navigate between layers. Therefore, I m decided to create my own navigator menu (kind of custom menu). 1) I would like to make it dynamic (just in case I need to add a new layer). For this purpose, I m quite sure I have to create my menu using the DB, so that, I'd be able to modify the menu by adding a new record in my table. (Please, correct me If I am wrong). 2) I'm …

Mmmm, just wondering if we have the same possibility to customize the Status bar for the end user as we do with the Menu? Thanks so much and a Happy New Year!

When creating custom menus the "copy" versions of all of the main menus that filemaker provides makes it easy to modify the existing main menus. Is there any way to get copy versions (or some other solution) of the sub-menus? For example, I'd like to slightly modify the Manage sub-menu (under the file menu). thx

I have a set of custom menus installed where I wanted to use the three layout view buttons to switch between three different layouts, one form view and two list views. I've added a script to each button change to the appropriate layout, so that form view is on the form button, list1 is on the list button and list2 is on the table button I had to leave the Based on Existing Command checkbox active on each of the items, so that the buttons remain active. However this means that they also assume their default layout switching behaviour, so when I have selected list2 by clicking the table button, list1 can't be selected because list2 is a list layout so inactivates the …

Hi All, I'm trying to work out if this is possible at all, so any tips or points would be great! I have a task table as part of a bigger procurement system. Within this tast table, tasks are assigned to usernames of the various logins to the system so Admin, Dan, Rachel etc. I have used my own custom menu set, which has a item called 'Tasks' which when clicked pops up the task manager layout in a new window. What I now want to do is change the item's label from 'Tasks' to 'Tasks (5)' where the 5 figure is actually a count of how many matching records for that loged in user are found in the tasks table. So firstly is this possible (and how)? A…

FMPro 11 FMServer 11 Advanced running on Windows server r2 Platforms used: PC & Mac I'm a newbie when it comes to custom menus. I have created a custom menu for a layout in one of our databases. We have several priv. sets. If we log in with full access, the custom menu works. If we log in without full access, the menu items are grayed out. This is true regardless of platform. Any suggestions? Thanks.

In Filemaker 8.5, I had a custom Record menu with a "Go To" submenu with items First, Previous, Next and Last. This still works in FMP 11, but at the cost of disabling the navigation items on the status toolbar. That is, if you want the navigation items enabled, you must have FileMaker's own "Go to Record" submenu installed somewhere in your menus. Or am I missing something?

0 down vote favorite I have a system that I've built that makes heavy use of custom menus in FileMaker. When I log in as full access, and install the menu set with these custom menus, they appear fine. However, when a non-full access user logs in, they're disabled. This includes most of the custom menus, but not all. For example, I have left the File>Change Password option in and the user I'm logging in as has the permission to change their password, but the Change Password menu item is disabled. Other disabled menus include those I've placed in the View menu to navigate to different sections of the system, such as Home, People, Companies, etc. The f…

I hope this is in the right topic area. Rather than setting custom menus, I just want to toggle some of the basic preference choices that FilemakerPro gives to the user. For example, I'd like to disable the database browser pane, the "Notify me when an update is available" option and the "Notify me when a new version is available" option. Are these available to programmatic control? Thanks, Gary

Hi all, Is there any way to remove the Status Bar but still keep the Quikfind facility. I don't want people creating new records or deleting records from the Status toolbar but keeping Quickfind would be really usefull.

How hide tools menu in custom menu option, while apply the custom menu.. Please suggest me to hide the tools menu

I am new to FM and I have been reading tutorials and trying to learn how to build a database. I understand databases and the general workings of FileMaker, but I have a few questions. Attached is an image of the very basic layout that I am trying to create. I want to be able to organize all my clients, and to be able to access the different groupings of clients from a navigation menu. What I do not understand is how to create this menu. As I understand it I will need to create a different layout for 'Active Clients', 'Potential New Clients', 'Archived Clients', 'Wholesale Clients', and 'Media Contacts'. These layouts will display only records that fit that client sta…

Dear All, I dont know whether it is very easy task but i am not aware about this fact so sorry if it is common and easy task. My query is when we create the custom menu how can we disable or grayed the submenu option. for more clarification please see attached screen shot. Here in picture i want to disable "Admin" submenu from file menu in certain condition like according to user type it should be disable or enable. Lots of Thanks,

In My Fm 11 version having no option to create a custom menu set. Please any one can share your experience to show this option. please refer the attach file.

Hi, When a user enter as guest (with data entering priv') all of the custom menu items that refer to a script are grayed out. All of these scripts are with "run script with full priv..." What can be the problem?

It's been a while since I've worked with custom menus and I can't recall (or find) the way to add the Unformat Text entry to the user's right-click menu in a runtime application. I have it in the Edit Menu on the Top Menu Bar (File ... Edit ... View ... ) and it works. But it would be so much more convenient as a right-click option. Thanks in advance for any help.

Why can't I exclude the Help menu in a custom menu set from appearing both in a "real" FMP file and a runtime? (See attached) Is there a trick I don't know? Thanks, Rich

In previous versions of Filemaker, you could use the ctrl and up-arrow and crtl and down-arrow keys to go to the previous or next records. These keys worked whether or not the status area is visible on both Mac and PC. In FMP 11 it seems that these keystroke combinations only work if the status bar is visible. Hide the status bar and they no longer work. Is anyone else seeing this? FWIW I'm using FMP 11.0v2 Advanced on Windows 7 Professional, 32-bit version Thanks Brian

In Photoshop there is a keyboard shortcut "Shft + Ctl + E" which merges all visible layers. In Filemaker as we discovered quite by accident, this same shortcut deletes the current record. Users in our office often work in Photoshop with the database open. Now when they use this shortcut and the focus is on Filemmaker rather than Photoshop, well you can see the problem. Is there a way to disable keyboard shortcuts in Filemaker, and how would I accomplish this? Thanks Ron

I'm quite a newbie with Custom Menus, is it possible to automatically set custom menus to a given privilege set under certain layouts? All that without scripting? If scripting is needed what is the best practice?

Opps, I was working on a custom menu set, and I must have changed something I shouldn't, now the only menu that is accessible is "records". I can't even get in in advanced to edit the menu sets. How can I get past this and put things back to normal?

I have created a custom menu set. When I attempt to use it, the book icon and slider bar in the task bar area are dimmed when in the custom menu mode. I thought these two things could work together. The manual and help topics say nothing about this subject. What am I doing wrong ?

is there anyway to import and exporting custom menu from database to other

Need to create a custom menu script. So I don't accidentially create a new invoice. For example if I want to create a new invoice i would like a box to come up and say something like: "create new invoice" [Yes] [No] if I click yes then creates a new record, if I choose no than it ends the script. Seems pretty simple just need a little help, Thanks everyone, Jay.

I developed a solution that is being used by others. On the top bar (tool bar? Menu? I'm not sure what its called) are default buttons. Show all, new record, delete record, Find etc, I want to deny the users via privileges or whatever, the ability to use these buttons, commands, tools, whatever they are called. I want to prevent all other users (except me) the right to delete records. How is this done? I have set up an account for each employee with a log in. so whats next? I'm clueless mostly because I don't know the nomenclature.

I'm switching over from Access. In Access there is a switchboard feature that lets you make buttons for people to access different parts of the database. You can have the switchboard start automatically upon opening the database. Is there a feature for this in FMP 11? If so, does it carry over to IWP? How can I change the default starting page in IWP? Thanks!

Hi everyone, I need to "force" the users to choose input options from drop-down calendars or lists. How can I do that? I know there is a validation tag in the field property set-up dialog where I can do some settings in the "require" section, but that is not exactly what I want.. I just wonder if there is a way for me to disable the free text input by the users. Please advice. Thank you!

Is there anyway that I can Show the status bar, but not show the Layout drop down menu, or the little buttons that change view ? In my db/app I typically have the the entire Status bar hidden and have the user navigate by buttons in the layout. However when previewing certain reports I would like to show the status bar but don't want the Layout drop down menu visible. Would also like to add.. I'm pretty new to Filemaker although I have over 15 years development experience with MySQL based solutions. These forums have been a great resource. Thanks to everyone who contributes.

I can't figure out why square boxes similar to this one, , appears instead of valid characters on Table Views editing whenever I use the 'Ctrl-C', 'Ctrl-V' (Copy & Paste), etc. The problem came out when I customized my own Menu. I don't have problem on the 'Standard Filemaker Menus' (Tools/Custom Menus) option. Did I missed or messed-up something or somewhere? thanks in advance.

I want to create a custom menu that will trigger a script when a window is closed, by whatever means, keyboard, mouse, and so on. I've been told the best way to do this is create a custom menu that will run a script when the window is closed. I can't seem to accomplish this. I create a menu with the script I want attached to the File>Close menu selection and set that menu to run with a specific layout. Instead of running the script the custom menu disables everything, including the ability to close the window by any means. I have to go into tools and reset the menu selection to regain control over the window. I know this is basic FileMaker, however, I've…

I am trying to sort out what setting would not allow a user account to use the "Go To Record" options? If I log in with Full Access The Go To Record options are available under the Records Menu and Contral + Arrow Key options, but with any other privilege set they are grayed out even though it is the same Custom Menu Set. I even tried the standard menu set and all other privilege sets have no access to the Go To Record or key commands. I have checked that their Available Menu Commands is set to ALL in their Privilege Set so have just about run out of ideas. This is happening in FileMaker 11 on both Mac and Windows.

Can I get or set the preferences settings in FMP10/11? I'd like to disable the Automatically check for updates every 7 days setting because my users don't have admin access on their machines so can't install updates anyway. If I can't set this via script, can I modify a preferences setting file? Sorry if this is too off-topic here. I can't see a better forum than where people control what the users' menus are. Thanks, Gary

Why is the "New..." button is greyed when I want to create my own toolbar? I looked at the help file without success. I have never created a toolbar before and I would like to create my own buttons. Thanks

Is there a function or technique for capturing the Custom menu selection that a user makes? That is, if a user selects from my Reports custom menu the "Admissions Audit" item, can I somehow capture that menu title in a variable? I would then pass that variable into the script called by the menu. Such could then be used to navigate to the correct layout or whatever.

Hello I Built a script to force people to enter certain data before the script can execute. If they are missing I use the Show custom option dialog to ask for the data. Now my question is. In the Input field. Is there a way to give the user all the options by integrating a value list. Right now for certain fields, I have to tell them the field has not been filled and kick them out of the script and tell them to recalculate again. Not fun. Thank you Zab

Hi, Is it possible to install a menu set by name? The purpose of this is to refresh the menu set if the user change the language of the project interface. Here is what my script would look like scriptname menu_refresh Freeze window $menuName = Get (CustomMenuSetName) Install Menu Set ["Standard Filemaker menus"] Install Menu Set [$menuName] Thanks for anyhelp

how can i remove tools menu using custom menu in filemaker pro 10 advance?

Can I move the status toolbar to display on the left instead of on the top? I could really use the extra display that this now takes up. (I'm using Win 7, not Vista. Win 7's not a choice in the drop down Platform menu?)

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after loading custom menus menu item tools exists how to remove it help plz

Hi I would like to write a right click menu item so I can send a number to a small executable we use so that our phone system will phone that number…. How do I add a right click menu item ? I am on a mac so the click can activate an apple script which would be fine… Thanks….

I haven't established any custom menus in my file yet...however not all access levels are able to access the same commands! All access levels are currently using the same menu, but some commands are greyed out. I can't figure out why this is... The most important missing commands right now are Control+ArrowKeys (on Mac) to navigate to previous or next records. I can do that no problem with [Full Access] account; but the moment I log into the accounts with restricted access privilege sets these menu commands get greyed out. All privilege sets have "Available Menu Commands" set to All. What am I missing? Thanks!

I´m using like 20 scripts, all they appear in the menu script, I selected the check box for these scripts in order to use them via shortcut but they only let me use the first 10 scripts!!! I need to use all of them via shortcut, anyone knows how to make or assign a shortcut to all the rest??? thanks Sincerely BluiSh

Hi, When I compile a runtime.. incl, check 2nd box to Disable Admin items My runtimes still have the Top FM menu.. where as user if smart enough can click Records and start Deleting.. I played around.. with Set Custom Menu... Is this the pathe others use? ..that seems to help elimited those items... but I wasn't able to keep the 'Insert' for images into a containers.. ANy help or comments how others eliminate the FM top menu

Hi, I'm trying to disable the New Window menu item by creating a new custom menu, but I can't seem to add a Window Menu Item... Thanks, Michael

Hi all, Is there a way to change the Right mouse click items ?

When creating a custom menu, is there a way to toggle a check mark to appear beside a menu item? (Like how there's a check mark next to Browse in the View menu when you're in Browse mode.) Thanks.

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible for me to change the middle mouse funcion to instead of rolling trough records to just scrolling along the layout. the reason for this is that i dont want people scrolling trough quotes table they have to go back to clients table and search the new client to have acess to his quote! Any one know if this is possible. or if there is a way to lock it trough a script would help too.. thank you!

Is it possible to have my custom menu set be available while I am in layout mode? I have a few scripts that I have under a custom menu, it would be nice to view that custom menu under layout mode. I guess I can always check "include in menu" in Scriptmaker, but I would prefer not to show those script to ordinary users while in browse mode. Any suggestions?

Hi, I've never worked with custom menus before. How can I link a custom menu to a privilege set? Thanx