Custom Menus

I'm pretty new to Custom Menus and well I made a mistake now I'm trying to rebuild some menus in a solution. I've gotten them 90% back to normal but one item I can't find is Records>"Saved Finds" It looks like a submenu but when I go into there I see nothing about Saved Finds. It got to be easy and I'm just over looking it please point it out to me. TIA

i have a script like this " If [ Get ( PrivilegeSetName ) = "Admin" ] Install Menu Set [ "Admin Menus" ] Else If [ Get ( PrivilegeSetName ) = "Secretary" ] Install Menu Set [ "Secretary Menus" ] Else If [ Get ( PrivilegeSetName ) = "Outside" ] Install Menu Set [ "Read Only Menus" ] End If " And I have A problem that if i go to a different layout the menu change . why does it happen ?

I've created a custom menu that contains calls to run scripts—my way of providing users with keyboard shortcuts to on-screen buttons. However, strangely the menu contents are always greyed out. I've tried setting the Script privilege to All Executable and All Modifiable. No change. I've left the Command at its default setting of . Couldn't spot an appropriate command for this situation. See attachment. What am I missing? GoTo_Menu.pdf

I have quite a few calculation fields displayed on a layout. I want to leave field behaviour set to not allow the field to be entered in Browse mode so as not to confuse the user into thinking the field can be edited. However, I would also like access to the Ctrl-Click functions like Find Matching Records. I can script each separate button as If( Get(ActiveModifierKeys)=4; Go to Field.... then specify each field for each button, but one single script entering the field 'Self' would be way smarter. Is this possible? Phil Sorry, probablt should have posted this in scriptmaker?

Hi - I am new to Custom Menus and am trying to make mine context sensitive but having trouble with getting the required calculations for the menu item names to be up to date. I have a simple global field (g_context) which defines the context I want shown in the menu. I have defined a menu item which uses that global field for the override title. It works on first use - but does not seem to keep up to date as the field g_context changes. I have tried to ensure records are correctly committed and that the window is refreshed and joins updated - but nothing seems to reliably change the menu item correctly. Can anyone shed light on what I am missing. …

Hello all: I'm setting up my application to run in kiosk/runtime mode and I'm getting the error "Your access privleges do not allow you to perform this action". What is the minimum privleges needed for an account to run in kiosk mode. I've created an account named kiosk (for lack of a better name) and set the privlege set to the documentation below: a. In the Edit Privilege Set dialog box, give the privilege set a name and description. b. For Layouts, Value Lists, and Scripts, select either All view only or All no access. c. Clear the Manage extended privileges checkbox. What am I missing? Thanks.

Can I remove second Help or Edit it in Custom Menu Set? As i would like to offer my clients help i do not want to confuse them with an empty Help menu but seem unable to remove it.

In my experimentation with custom menus, I created a new menu set and then added some custom menu items. It seems that once you create an item, you can not delete it without deleting the whole menu set and starting over. I created a menu set for a particular layout and added a custom menu "Job Scripts". When I discovered that you CAN indeed delete the [scripts] menu from your set and create your own custom Scripts menu with no naming conflict, I did just that. Now I want to delete the original "Job Scripts" but there is no delete option - only Create, Edit or Duplicate. Seems like a real faux pas on Filemaker's part. I realize that I could rename the menu and c…

Hi guys! In order to protect my database and to force users to use the buttons on the interface to close a window (as there are scripts behind it of course), I would like to restrict user access to the default Windows or MacOS buttons to close a certain window. However, my main concern is, when I restrict access to menus from the priviligesets: 1. the default OS buttons are still accessible and 2. the copy/paste function is no longer available (they should be able to copy text from other applications if necessary) Any suggestions on how to resolve this? Isabelle

Hello Everybody, In Filemaker 9 Advanced I want to customize a menu item that add to the shortcut menu item. Shortcut menus display when right-clicks (Windows) an object or an area, and customize the behavior performed by the shortcut menu item. Is there a way to do this?

Happy VD everybody! Wait, that didn't come out right... In the solution I'm working on I've assigned a custom menu for each account name, but I'm stuck in trying to create a custom menu for one group where I don't want them to have access to any menu, navigation or otherwise. (What functions they'll need will be driven by scripts.) When I created an empty custom menu in the Edit Menu Set windoid and tried it, FileMaker had its way by presenting a default set of menus. The nerve! Any suggestions for outfoxing FileMaker in this regard will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi I want user to navigate through basic icons to access different databases. I am wondering how to hide the "Show Window" from the menu commands by customizing the menu bar.

I can't seem to get the 'Undo Formatting' menu item to work correctly in my custom edit menu. Let's say I copy a block of formatted text from a browser and paste it into a text field on my database. In a 'regular' edit menu, immediately after the paste the 'Undo Formatting' command would appear at the top of the edit menu, which I could then select to clean up the pasted text. The Undo Formatting command would then change to 'Undo Paste', which could be used to...um...undo the paste. When my custom edit menu is loaded, the 'Undo Formatting' works as expected, but instead of seeing 'Undo Paste' next, I actually see 'Redo Formatting' instead. Hope that makes sense…

I'm adding custom menu sets as an afterthought. As I understand it, here's what FM gives us to manage menu sets: 1. I define a "Default Menu Set" for the file in the Define>Custom Menu Sets dialog. 2. For each layout, I select a Menu Set; either the Default Menu Set or one of my custom ones. 3. I can programatically change menu sets with the Install Menu Set script step. For the solution I'm retrofitting this to, I want there to be two user modes: basic, and expert. For Basic, I want a single, highly restricted menu set to be in place. For the Expert, I want the complete Filemaker set. (There's an authentication script that establishes which cat…

I have a pdf guide that I would like to place on the help menu as an option. I have looked, but cannot find a way to lauch a file from a new menu entry. Can someone walk this newbie through step by step? I would appreciate it very much. Thanks all!

A couple of Questions. When Custom Menus are on, my Copy and Paste commands cease to function properly. When either one is used, a "square" character is inserted that replaces the text being copied or pasted. Question 2 - What are the Black dots that now appear to the left of the customized Menu options that are displayed? Thanks for the replies

Hi my dear repliers!!! You always have an answer for all the things I can't find... I learn a lot with you and then I "teach" my friends : ... all thanks to you guys (and girls). Here I have a question: Can I set a button to "undo changes"? I mean: I accidentally change some information and I don't know what I changed... is there any way to undo changes? to restore the information which accidentally has been changed? I can't realize the way... thankssssss for reading! Jogito : PS: I don't really know if this post is well-situated,

There has to be a simple answer to this question, though I've looked and looked. Basically, I don't want the option to add a new record through the menu item. I only want to add a new record via a script because of the nature of what needs to be entered into that new record. It appears that my only option is to use a plugin called secureFM but that's really overkill for me and I can't justify the $155 cost to disable one menu item. I'm not distributing any solutions to anyone. This is only for my use and those who access my machine to use the file. Is there any way to do this without shelling out big bucks? If it were a $10-20 investment I could handle that, but no way ca…

I understand that in FM9 pro you can make custom menus. If you create a custom menu in an applicaiton in FM 9 Pro, can you have a workstation running regular FM 9 Pro access that application with the custom menu?

I've got a user on a PC that uses her mouse's scroll wheel to go from record to record. For various reasons this is a problem. Is there a way to disable that?

I have a container field that my clients scan a document into. On the same form I have 8 other container fields. Is there a way to have "right click" add a print option or some way to print only one of the container documents instead of the entire form?

Does anyone know if there is a way of opening the Manage > Custom Menus menu via a script? For example there is a script step: 'Open Manage Database' which opens the Manage database window without the use of the File menu. I would like to do the same with Manage > Custom Menus.

I'm working on a Ordering system. Orders must have a Type of "Sale", "Purchase", or "Transfer". I originally thought about going with three separate tables, one for each type, but there's a lot of overlap, so I think one is the answer. The three are different however, and I have a different entry layout for each. What I want to happen is for only the respective type to appear in the respective layout. So I'm scripting the navigation and got the Find process nailed down, but can't replicate Show All. Everything I've tried (scripts that involve the Find process: Find, Constrain, Extend, GTRR), gets me the proper found set, but the focus has changed from the …

I want to create a custom menu for a Runtime App. But I want to see some of the stuff I take out when I'm editing or using the database in Filemaker? For example, I want to take away the Scripts Menu and the possibility of people looking at or using scripts outside of their database functions in the Runtime. BUT....I obviously want to see the Script Menu when I'm using FM, updating the Runtime, and all that. Is it possible to do such a thing?

Clearly since FM introduced custom menus, there is a bit of a clash between the options in Privilege sets, (to allow users to have "All", "Editing only" or "Minimum" available menu commands), and then providing proper custom menus for your solution. Custom menus won't function fully unless users have "All" set in the available menu commands of their associated privilege set (i.e. custom menus are heavily disabled, and any new non-Filemaker related menus/menu items are completely unavailable.) I assume everyone who is using custom menus, is now allowing users with custom menu access, "Full" menus in the privilege settings. Is there any danger to this approac…

Relative newbie here. I am trying to customize a context menu in a FMP8.5 solution - for a user custom menu set. Specifically, when I use the custom menu set, the context options on a container field do not allow insertion of a picture like it does when the Standard Filemaker Menus are used. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Richard

Hi Everyone, I've recently acquired Filemaker Pro 9 Advanced and I'm setting up my first database on this version. Right away I've hit this very frustrating snag with the New Record and Duplicate Record commands. I've set up several tables and I noticed that on most of them, when I'd call up either of the above commands (using any of the means possible: Ctrl-N, from the menu, the icon, etc.) they'd work, BUT I'd get this annoying pop up error saying: "The menu item you have choosed (their spelling, not mine) can't be found in the menu table OR this menu item is not unique. Reference of your menuitem is " I did a runaround this problem by creating script…

I'm adding some custom menus to a large system in FMP v8.5 (Windows) Is there any quick way of associating a default custom menu set to a privilege set, or account, in v8.5 (if you can in v9 I would migrate the system). I'm either missing something or everyone else approaches it differently... At the moment I'm setting a restricted set of custom menus on various files, and overriding it to the standard set, when I'm logged and need full access, by using an Install Menu Set step in an "open" script which checks the account name (none of the client PCs have Advanced installed).

Hi, Is there a keyboard shortcut in FMPro 8.5 Advanced (Mac) to activate the standard Filemaker menus? Thanks, ft.

Can I disable the apple-D command in 8.0 v.3? I'm having trouble with workers duplicating records accidentally, not being aware they have done it, and then we find redundant records later, with info added on both records. I just want to disable the command and don't know if I can do it without advanced fmp. Any help is appreciated. Mitzi

Hi, all: I'm feeling unusually dense today so hopefully you can get my head wrapped around a custom menu problem. Background: In the aviation world there's a list we call an ATA list that references different components on an aircraft, like so: 12 Servicing 1210 Fuel Servicing 1220 Oil Servicing 1230 Hydraulic Fluid Servicing 1240 Coolant Servicing 18 Helicopter Vibration 1800 Helicopter Vibration/Noise Analysis 1810 Helicopter Vibration Analysis 1820 Helicopter Noise Analysis In my solution, rather than send someone off to a layout and have him or her search through all of codes for the one they want (we're talking hundre…

I have created a custom menu with ONLY the features I want, however, one feature continues to show up even tho I never added it, "Tools" and this is a problem, as I do not want the customer to have the option to change the menu features. How do I remove the "tools" from my custom menu? Thanks :P

This maybe out of the question but I was wondering if there is a way to use a field's contents as a custom menu list. The idea I had in mind was to have in my database a custom menu called "web links" - I have a table with a list of website URLs and when a new website address is added in the "websites" table , it would automatically appear under the web links menu, then switch to a layout with a webview in it. Any ideas would be welcome. thanks

We recently upgraded to Filemaker 8.5. Before the upgrade when you went to "Window" in the menu it would list the files you currently have open. Now you get some files showing at the bottom and some are over in the "Show Window". Hope that makes sense. Question is: Is there a way to just make all the files open show in the main "Window" area annd not in the Show Window" area? There really doesn't even seem to be any logic as to what files show under "Window" or under "Show Window". Or am I missing something?

When i right click into a text field 3 options appear... Find Matching Records Constrain Found Set Extend Found Set Find Matching Records does what it says ... but i cant work out what the other 2 do as nothing happens when i click them and my only thought is to switch to find mode ... but it does not effect the search... Can someone give me an example of what these are for?

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There is no way to apply privileges to Custom Menus is there? Would love to make items disappear in relation to Account Privileges... A way would be great ... a No would be good to know too...

I am currently use secure fm on developer 7 to manage what my users can do through the menus and am considering upgrading to 8.5. I have had a little hands-on with 8.5 to see how the custom menu feature works, and it looks like I wouldn't need secure fm on 8.5 for what I do if I upgraded. One thing I didn't remember seeing was whether I could manage what Secure fm calls the 'Sytem Menu'. In particular, I don't want users to be able to 'quit' or 'exit' my software any way but through my 'quit' script (I realize they can always do a 'Force Quit' or 'ctl-alt-delete'. But I want to be sure to be able to disable the exit and 'big red x' on my Windows applications and the…

I need to help our Filemaker designer with some new function in Filemaker 8. He's designing the database on a Macintosh computer, and it is using custom menus. However... The ability to cut, copy, and paste by using the keys Shift-Delete, Ctrl-Insert, and Shift-Insert don't work with custom menu's when the database is accessed from a PC. Since he design's everything from a Mac, he does not know how to program in any feature that uses the Insert key. Can anyone give him some hints on how to program this from his Mac? So far he's just given up and doesn't think it can be done. (Hence why I am posting here)

I'm attemping to disable Exposé in Tiger but only for Filemaker (diabling it in the OS caused a near riot) so that the navigation between the 10 databases has to done through Filemaker. Has anyone had success doing this? Thanks!

This is a temp solution. I want to give access to the Account & Privileges off the menu line in a custom menu but I only seam to be able to give for all Define not just the Account & Privileges. I know they would need to have full access and could then change thier access. But like I said this is just a temp solution. Is there a way isolate Account & Privileges? Thanks in advance

Hi, I have finally created a Custom Menu that I like…is it possible to copy this menu so that it can be used on other DBs I create? Or, do I have to recreate it on each db? I can’t find any copy or import function . Thanks, James

I use FM Adv 8.0 to modify my app. The clients all have custom menus without access to any layout functions. Anyone know of a way to edit the "tool" menu which is only in Dev/Advanced so I can put some of the functions I need in it?

Hi! I want to remove the filemaker menus in FM6. Is this possible? Normally I work in FM8.5 Advanced, where the solution is a walk in the park. In FM6 I am somewhat more disoriented... Thanks!

Can Find Matching Records be customized like other menu items? I have customized my Find functions to filter out certain records. I need to do the same for Find Matching Records. I get the sneaky suspicion this cannot be done....

Thought I would query this astute forum with regard to whether “Custom Menus” can be associated with a specific user? In other words, when a user logs in can a specific “Custom Menu” related to their username be presented to them? Any help would be much appreciated…………….Ray

I need to determine if a user entered the DB thru IWP or Remote. I've tried Get(NetworkProtocol)but both return TCP/IP Thanks in advance. Steve

Hi I want my database to run in full screen kiosk mode, however i cant run it as a runtime solution because its is a database shared over network. is there any way to set database to full screen kiosk mode in normal filemaker 8.5. cheers

I have created a custom menu that allows a user to navigate to different layouts. I have a script on one layout that puts the user in find mode when entering the layout. if the user then chooses a menu item, they switch layouts but remain in find mode. is there a way to exit the find mode script when the user selects a menu item (like the option given to buttons and objects "Exit current script")?

Hi, I've been lurking in the forum for a bit now and have found quite a bit of great information. I guess before I ask for help, I should let you know who I am. I'm relatively new to the FileMaker world and am trying to build my first DB designed possibly to distribute as a runtime. In the very near future, I hope to build a client datebase for the pet hotel I work at. Over the last 9 months or so, I've taken an Intro, Intermediate, and Advanced FM class. OK, now my question. How common is it to use Custom Menus? The teacher I had for my classes-a FM7 Certified Developer-did teach it but I got the idea that either he didn't care as much for it or maybe it …

Hi, I'm real new to this. I made a database from scratch that contains employee data and contains a portal to list employee training. I managed to figure out the tab thing in the body and have three tabs for three levels of training. The sheet is unfinished but I know how to do everything I want to do with one exception. I cannot figure out how to get a "List View" of the employees that I can click to a form view. I know I need to do it with scriptmaker but because it's a clean sheet there are no scripts defined. Attempts to import scripts from other sheets always fall short and I always get errors in the import. Help. I can post the sheet or ema…

Hi, We have a User privilege set, for whom we want to deny access to certain menu options, for example: Records, Duplicate Record. We also have an Admin privilege set, for whom we want to have access to all menu options. The default menu set in the file, and the default menu set for all layouts is the Standard FileMaker Menus. We have a script setup in a file, like so: If [Get ( PrivilegeSetName ) = "User"] Install Menu Set ["Custom Menu Set"] End If This works really well, until we use: Go to Layout [x] As this effectively brings back all the menu options... Doing it the other way around is not really an option either (by settin…

I am a newbie to FM 8. I would like to change the title in the menu bar. I did it previously and forgot to write down how. Any Ideas? Dave

In my application, I removed all the menu items. This works fine as long as the users are using FM Pro. But if the users install a copy of FM Adv, the 'Tool' command show up at the menu bar. This is no good as users can run some of the developer utilities. I cannot find a way to remove this. Please help.

I just started playing with custom menus and I can't seem to do what I want which is create menus and sub menus that can run scripts. I wanted to create a whole menu structure to replace many of the buttons on my layotus. Am I correct that this cannot be done?

Hello everyone, i have seen that in the bps 1.0 instead of the menu option insert new record it said insert new contact Where can i change this? Also in the first main menu the menu bars are changed with other dropdown menu's instead of the standard filemaker menu's where can i do this? thx in advance

Can custom menus be assigned across an entire file based on the privilege set? I would like the full menu as an administrator BUT abbreviated custom menu for the end-user based on their privilege set.

A slip in good development practices forced me to go to resort to my FM7 runtime file as continuing point for development. It had custom About, Scripts and Help menu items. Is there any way to restore the Filemaker defaults? Also, does the fact that these were modified at one point rule out renaming them in a new Custom Menu Set?

Just wondering if anyone can direct me to a publication which explains how to design a web site using Filemaker 7 - something which someone with mid-level rather than maestro experience of FMP could follow; and does FMP 8 have features which make it easier to publish a web site than FMP 7. Suggestions very welcome as always.

Is there a way to specify a Default Menu set based on a privalege set? I would like to a user to always get a menu set based on their original login. The only way I can see to to that is to include it in all the navigation scripts (ie, go to a layout, then change menu set). This seems burdensom. I would like to have something that would set a default menu set for each user type, then I can just assign the use file default menu set for each layout. I just don't see it. Is this possible in FM8 or do I have to manually change all my layout scripts? TIA jerry

For my runtime solution, I use a custom menu that consists of an absolute minimum set of functions, but that includes ALL spell check options: I included Correct Word, but it displays "grayed out" in the runtime. Likewise when a user right clicks to get spelling tools for a misspelled word, the Ignore-Learn-Spelling options are disabled. It appears I'm close, since they are in the runtime's menus; they're just not active. Does anyone know how to activate just these WITHOUT turning on a lot of other functions (that I don't want)? (I've attached a screen example, but I don't know how to cause it to display as part of my post.)

I have a login script that includes a Install Menu Set. The selected Menu Set does not include any menus. When I run it from a copy of FM Pro on Windows XP, the Install Menu Set script step does not change the menu. When I run this same script step on FMP 8 Advanced the menu set does change. The copy of FM Pro that this is occuring on was installed as an Assisted Install with the ability to create files disabled. I don't know if this matters. Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Hi all, I don't even know whether this is the right place to post this topic. Anyhow, the drop-down menu of Window on the menu bar has an item that says "Show window" along with a right pointing arrow which is supposed to trigger another submenu on FM Pro 8 Advanced, however, my copy of FM Pro 8 Advanced does not show anything at all, I am just wondering what is it for? Or am I the only one having this problem with FM Pro 8 Advanced Ver 2? Appreciate any feedback. Thanks a lot. NotPro

Hello, I must be overlooking something, but I'm about to distribute a solution that involves custom menus. If a user is currently using my solution, and then wishes to switch to another solution running on his/her computer, how can he/she do that? I just realized that I can add a [Window] custom menu, but I can't customize its contents. I'm hesitant to enable the Show Window menu item because I really don't want users aware of hidden files in my solution (the hidden files just have benign layouts, so they really can't mess with them, but I'd rather they didn't even know about them). Am I stuck using the [Window] custom menu? Regards, Sean Mills

I've just started my design of a custom menu set for my runtime application. There are a couple of important but seldom-used layouts that I'd like to have listed across the top as menu items to provide "one-click" direct access for the user (rather than having buried down in the application button sets). For example, have "Set Defaults" on the menu bar. When the user clicks on it, FMP executes a Go to Layout ["Set Defaults"] without any further action by the user. With so may options in FMP's Edit Custom Menu functions, I haven't found a way to set this up. Any suggestions? Is this possible to do?

i've been fooling around all too long and can't seem to get my custom menu items active (always dimmed) I am logged in as Admin {access all} and have tried entering new user with menu privileges what else dims menu items >>> after looking closer realize INSERT or FORMAT dynamically change relative to active field and / or mode setting

I would like to have a few custom menu items that will save my previous searches and also a better menu to get to different layouts. The literature for CNS says they can do this effectively, but, they have no questions or answers on their FAQs page which makes me believe there are not too many people using this plug-in. Will Dacons do this for me?

Hi all, I am a new member to the forums and this is my first post so here goes. I have been using filemaker 6 for a month or two in an office enviroment on a Mac platform and now have the need for custom menu's. Idealy I would like to remove/disable the "duplicate record" command in the Records menu. I see in the "access privilages" I can disable "Delete records", "Create records" and so on but no "Duplicate record"! I also tried changing the "Available menu commands" section to "editing only" but this does not have the desired affect. Could you please advise on the best solution to remove this command when using a certain password to access the file. Thanking…

Has anyone found a way to use the '&' sign as part of the custom menu name? i.e. Men & Women. Because the '&' symbol is designated as the access key to Menu shortcuts am I stuck? I have tried to escape out of it without any luck.

*Venting* Why cant you copy and paste Custom Menus.... grrrr...

I have submenus built into my custom menus with FM8 Advanced and I've found that they will not run the assigned scripts. Has anyone else come across this behavior and have a fix? Any assistance or direction would be appreciated! Thanks.

Hi all, If I recall, the custom menu feature does not allow the selective greying out of commands from the menu. I know that the choices under the insert command are greyed out unless a container is selected first. However, I want to disable any menu. I dont think FileMaker allows this. Has anyone figured out a way to do this without using Dacon's? We want to standardize the menus across the solution, and those submenus / scripts that are not needed for certain layouts, we would like to 'grey it out' Thanks. -John

According to new millenium menu magoc page you can disable the close widget button? How can you do this in v8? Or do you have to do it using scripts? Any one know of this???

I want to elminate the Menu Bar. Is there posible with Customs Menú? I know Dacons Menú do it, but i´m not interested to buy a lot of licences of Menu Control only for that.

In case anyone is interested, Dacons just released version 3.0, which is compatible with Filemaker 8.0. Steve

Hi, anyway to display a value list in a custom menu, where there selection runs a script based on the selection? Thanks, Andrew

Hi, The new new menu sets are nice, but I can't really use them unless I can specify different default menu sets for different user groups. For example, as a developer I need full access, but sales reps would get a limited access menu. Attempts to script menu sets are cumbersome because they return to the default as soon as you switch layouts. Has anyone found a better way? Thanks, Andrew

I've been messing about for the first time with the new Custom Menus. A great idea, but there's a few snags. The fundamental problem is the same as what we've been facing for years. That is the blanket nature of the menu access in a privilege set. Taking a basic idea of a custom menu: change the single New Record menu command into separate table-specific commands; "New Contact", "New Company", etc.. I attached these to scripts. If I set the user's menu privileges to "Editing only", then (of course) they could not use the "new" record commands that I'd created; because they weren't Edit commands. I found a work-around, but it's kind of weird. Almost all the Edit…

Hi everyone. i'm searching for a possibility to override the field menu (Right-click on text field Font,Size..Sort Ascending/Descending/Find Matching ...) I need to remove some items and rename/change others. I changed the Copy/Paste/Cut Item's names and it changed also in the filed menu. How can I do that ??

When I first started playing with Custom Menus, I found that Filemaker added an 'Exit Ctrl-Q' to the first menu and added 'Tools' to the end of the menu line (which couldn't be removed). I had been using Dacons Menu Control for the last 3 years, but its latest version won't run under v8, and Dacons can't give me a time frame for a version that will. New Millenium's version also won't run under 8. So I went back to playing, and here is what I've come up with: If you create a runtime (which I normally do) and remove Admin Privileges, the 'Tools' Menu disappears. I created the first menu with a single blank as a title that winds up creating a menu without text wh…

Yesterday, I started experimenting with custom menus. I created a menu that I wanted everyone but me to use and set it as the default menu for the file. I then set the open script to set the [standard filemaker menus] as the menu set if anyone with full access logs in. That works just fine, and I get the regular menus. The problem is that as soon as I navigate or run a scipt, the menu set reverts to the default menu set. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Does anyone know where or how to add the a list of open windows to the end of a menu, like the one in the window menu. Not the "Show Windows" sub menu that list all hidden windows. I need the list that is attached to the bottom of the window menu. I am trying to make my own window menu without the some the menus that are built into the standard FM Window menu.

Does anyone know a way to disable all menu sets that have been assigned to layouts? After I have gone through all my layouts and assigned their appropriate menu sets, I some times need to go back to the layouts and do some dev work on them. The problem is the standard FM menus are not accessible on my layouts. I can disable the menu set to a normal FM menu, but once I switch to another layout the menu set resets. Also I can only disalbe menu sets one at a time, not all at once. Hpw can any developer get his work done. There has to be a command that will allow the developer to disable all menu sets during his working session. Once the the solution is re-open…

I started playing with Filemaker's Menu Control, and so far as I can tell, it has a major default: It adds to the first menu that you create for the current file 2 entries...an Exit and a Help entry. The Exit stupidly causes FM to close, and I haven't found a way around this. That means a user could leave a solution inadventently, or in mid-task (say before validation). Stupid, genuinely stupid.