Tab and Slide Control Panels

I have done my best to search for a definitive answer, but I just can't find one. My Situation: I have many types of ITEMs that have very different attributes that describe each ITEM. For example: A "wheel" ITEM has attributes such as: Wheel Diameter; Bore Size; Lug Count; Offset Size; etc. A "paper" ITEM has attributes such as: Grain Direction; Material Thickness; Opacity; Recycled Content Percentage; etc. In other words, the attributes needed to describe different types of ITEMs vary considerably. My Current Direction: I have one table called ITEM that will contain all attributes needed to fully describe each ITEM - of any IT…

Although this could be already been solved, worked out in a better way or what ever... With the help of other people and a bit of my knowledge, I have come with a solution that works for me. I'm pretty sure it can be very much improved, but by now, I think works fine and does the work I need. This lets you navigate through slide panels, showing the total number of panels and in the partial count, the actual panel you are in (been independent each panel count). Thanks to all the help I have received in this great forum. I hope this can help others. NavigatingSlides.fmp12

When I created a Tab set in layout I expected there would be some simple option in the tab setup panel that says (on click) go to Layout. No such thing. Where do I go from here? I just want to click a tab to go to another layout. FMPro 15. Without much knowledge I created a transparent button overlay, the first tab works fine, the second one on the target layout I have to click hard or twice for it to work (no idea why) but in the rollover state it goes opaque which seems to be related to its default theme.

using fm 21 in samsung book 4 pro ultra 5 have set tab control on a layout when clicking field in layout mode taking few seconds to select the field any1 else having the issue or any reason ????

Hi all, I'm trying to use the above mentioned functions to hide/show my search bar when switching between certain panels, but the functions don't return what they are supposed to. I attached a script to OnPanelSwitch that flips a hide variable between 0 and 1, which works, but Get functions just show 0 in my Data Viewer. What could I be missing? Thanks.

Hi there, I'm curious how I can adjust the height of a the tab portion of the tab control? I don't see a way to do it natively in FMP, but using BaseElements or MonkeyBread, I can copy the tab control and get the XML. I've played around with it, but don't see anything readily apparent? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I've created a sample file (attached) as I'm getting a flicker when triggering a slide. I broke down one of my layouts to try and find what's causing it, but when I got down to only the basics, the flicker still existed. In the sample file you'll see that I've added margins as a test and instead of resolving anything, the rectangle on slide 2 shifts position after opening. Maybe this is expected behavior as I don't customarily use margins in slides, but I'd appreciate comments on both (flicker and margin shift) if anyone knows. Thanka Test_Slide_Flicker.fmp12

I'd like to have a button (bottom right) always visible but I don't see a way to have it be independent from the slide beneath it. Because of the position of the button, FM assumes it to be part of the slide. As an experiment, I grouped if with a rectangle with the top, left corner being outside the slide, but as you'll see in the attached video, the slide initially conceals the button even though the group is to the Front. Any way to accomplish this? Thanks Slide_Button_Vid.mp4

As you'll see in the attached video, when an OnTimer script runs, the hover point of my mouse is affected. As a test, I put EXIT SCRIPT on the first line of the script, then a HALT SCRIPT. The simple running of the script is causing the oddity as no script steps (other than the EXIT and HALT) occur. I need to periodically check for remote data change to trigger a portal refresh, therefore the onTimer script. Adding a FREEZE command changes nothing. Is there an alternate way to refresh a portal/layout upon data change from another location without the use of an onTimer script AND/OR is there to eliminate the mouse hover change whenever the script runs? …

The original UI had 7 individual tabs functioning and located similar to a website navigation menu The main Contacts screen included individual portals to Phone, Address, Email, URL and Notes tables Those portals had links to their lists not to the above listed tabs. Updating to conform to FM upgrades through the years and better accommodate multiple devices My goal is to eliminate the tab navigation structure while keeping all the same info on the Contacts page. I tried using a tab structure with portals, but that doesn’t seem viable. What would be? Some combination of Button Bars, Sliders, Portals and/or Tabs? Any input would be much appreciated.

In the attached video, you'll see a portal at the back, then 2 independent slide panels. As I hover over one, the portal in the back is not effected. As I hover over the slide panel to the right, you'll see the portal rows reach to the mouse hover. Any thoughts why this happens over one slide panel but not the other? The panel in question contains a rectangle at full opacity. FM 19 Thanks! 09-58-58.mp4

If one has a tab control panel showing the relevant fields from a record and one of those fields is a container field with say a passport image e.g. jpeg file, the User can see that the field has data in but cannot see the picture as the image (Field size on screen) is too small. How does one enable the container field to be clicked or double clicked so that the image is displayed in another floating window - so User can see the image completely and then escape or click it again to close the window/image? NB These images are referenced to where they are physically stored, so as to minimise the storage requirement on the main database

Hi there. I am using slide panels and very occasionally I find that when I place a field or object on one of the panels that it appears on all of them - not just the single panel. I have checked that the object does not exceed the edge of the panel, and as many attributes of both panel and object that I can, but not found the problem. I usually fluke the fix. Is anybody able to tell me please what conditions cause an object to display on all panels rather than just one? Thank you. Greg

Hello, I have a layout with about a dozen tab controls, each dealing with a different FileMaker subject matter. In each tab, there is a text field intended to store notes about FM. I’d like to be able to do a search for specific words in each of these text fields and, if the word is found, I’d like it to be highlighted. Is this feasible? Or should I take a different approach for storing these notes and being able to search them? Thanks.

Hi all, I have a problem similar to the one discussed in this thread. It was suggested that the active tab could be captured using a normal script step with a script trigger on exiting the layout, but I can't find the proper script step. I messed around with OnPanelSwitch and GetLayoutObjectAttribute, but whatever I tried, didn't work. At least, going back to the proper tab with Go to Object is easy. Thanks for any help,

So right now I want to hide my Parts Purchased tab if there are no invoices. a customer has tab bar with their history, accounts, invoices and other stuff. I want them all to show. but if customer does not yet have an invoice I want to hide their parts. Can I do this? if not, what would you do so staff knows not to go to that tab? I tried changing the color but failed and it is not clear to staff even if i succeeded. thank you for thinking about my need.

Hi Wondering whether this is one of Filemakers limitation and/or there are any ways round it. i have a portal which displays my related records to a customer . These records are split down to two sections (Two options) i had created a slider that on slide 1 it displays option 1 and on slide two option two. However the slider only seams to show up on the top portal row. i would appreciate if anyone could explain me if this is not possible or something was just set out wrong.

Hi i have a tab control with a couple of bars , is there a way i can hide some tabs when they are still empty and only allow to see with a button script to add another tab?

Hi, I have a line inside my tab control in filemaker 16. Do you know what it is for? I have trouble figuring it out... Thanks. Kent

Hello Forum. I thought this would be easy, but maybe it's not possible, practical, or recommended. I basically have 3 tables related Customers--->Equipment--->Service (which is service on each piece of equipment. I thought I could do the following On a Customer layout, I have a customer info on the left, and 2/3 on the right a slide panel. The panels are other related tables with portals-Deliveries, Interactions, Equipment. On the Equipment Slide Panel, I thought I could make a large 1 row portal (on the top) with all the Equipment attributes (looks like a regular layout), and a multi row portal on the bottom with all the Service info for …

I have a database that keeps track of computer system information. I have a record for each system (one per room). Within this system there are a number of different computer devices and I want to track settings such as IP addresses subnet masks and other network type information. I have a table called “Systems” and I’m using tabs to separate the different devices within a system. Within each separate tab do I need to create a unique field for each piece of information or is there a more efficient way to do this? For example: the first field would be device one IP address the second field would be device one subnet mask The third field would be device …

Hello, I am fairly new to FileMaker and I have designed an Inventory Management DB. In one of my layouts, I have a list of the current inventory. The layout is configured as a List View layout. I have 2 Groups of multiple tabs which show details of the item being viewed. One thing I have noticed is when I switch tabs on the selected record, ALL of the tabs in the list also switch. e.g. If I have 3 Tabs: Info, Details, and Notes If I switch to the Details Tab, the rest of the records in the list view also switch to the Details Tab. Is there a way to make sure that only the record I am viewing in the List View switches tabs? Than…

Hello, I have a tab control panel with four tabs, and I would like to achieve that when I change tabs a script is triggered and would set the value of a global field called "zzz_g_collection_type" according to the tab name which is active. I need this field to dynamically filter the products that are shown on 1_row portals that I have put into each tab panel space. I have followed Elishree Dey tip on http://burnignorance.com/filemaker-pro-tips/trigger-a-script-when-user-changes-the-tabs-in-filemaker/ but I cant make it work, it only changes the value of "collection_type" field once and only to show that the first condition is not met. I have attached t…

Hello, It always go to "Default segment button bar", set on the button bar setting, when reenter to layout. I need to go to same segment when user was working on before he left the layout. I know how to get back to last tab panel used, and I wonder if there would be similar for this. Thanks a lot! Luis.

I made a file can someone help me please ,I made field with 3 quotations I want those quotations to scroll in slide control after mentioned seconds please someone help me QUOTES.fmp12

Hi, I am working with a customer where their "Tab" panel is missing ?? I've attached both screen shots. Any ideas what might cause this ?? Thank you. :-)

Aloha All, DISCLAMER I'm not a programmer nor a technical writer and also is ESL. So my writing is tailored to me or someone like me aka noobie as F* (toward me not you). Detail and step by step and as clear as possible. Please let me know if i’d missed something or grammar correction. System: As of 04-20-2016 (not potting around) macOS 10.11.4 (yeah I’m using macOS name form now on instead of OS X), iOS 9.3.1, Filemaker Pro Advance 14.0.5 and GO 14.0.4 OBJECTIVE Make merge variable to show the slide control panel's object name (the name of the front most slide panel). So when the file is open the merge variable will show the name of the from mos…

I was thinking of setting up 6 tabs to display 6 main categories, then 9 slides in each tab, with portals related to 9 tables requiring data entry. Will this work? So far I have not been able enter data in the portal/s. This could be my own lack of experience with portals though.

I am building a layout with a tab control. I would like to have a visual indication to the user if a tab has data in it, even if the tab is not selected. For example, if a comments field on a comments tab is not empty, I would like to give the user an indicator that the comment exists when the tab is unselected. I know I can change the style of the tab individually, but can it be made conditional?

Greetings all! I'm admittedly quite "green" when it comes to FileMaker, but I do have 15 years in application development in a variety of different languages, primarily geared towards web application development. That said, I have what I would consider a fairly common scenario and I'm struggling a bit with the best way to implement a solution in FM. Basically I have a "file" table and a "file_type" table. The two tables are related by the file type relationship. Currently I have two file types, "documents" and "files". Now, within my layout I have a tabbed interface. Included are tabs for "Documents" and "Images". Each of these tabs contain a portal to our "files" ta…

I have a simple list view with about 5 fields in each record. I would like to use a slide control to change the fields to ONLY that single record while in list view. I realize I could use a popup menu, but the interaction is not the same. Anyway to do this with a slide control? Thanks

I know that I can simply create a script that takes the user to the targeted object in a popover, then assign the script to a standard button. But this requires two buttons, a standard button and the popover button. How can I trigger the script from the popover button?

Hello everyone, I have two questions:1/ How to display all records of a TO after a filter; 2/ How to update the field “Number of sanctions” according to the filter dates. Thank you

I'm trying to duplicate a record displayed in a tab control. The script has two steps: Duplicate Record/Request and Go to Field. The duplicate is created ok, but the Go to field step switches panes making the default tab the top most. Without the Go to field step the switch stays on the pane. What gives?

This is my first time really working with tab controls. A certain script I'm developing needs to know what tab the user is viewing in order to continue. In addition, there are some buttons (outside of the tab layout object) on the layout I wish to hide when tab x is being viewed. Is there a way to make FileMaker "intelligently know" what tab is being viewed by the user?

Hello Newbie questions here. I am working with tabs and, when in Layout mode, the entire tab moves as I am arranging my fields in it. Is there a way to lock down the tab so that it doesn't move as I edit the other fields? Thanks Eric

I have placed a sliding panel on my users dashboard screen and I'm trying to get FM to remember what panel the user was on whenever they leave the dashboard layout. When the user returns to the dashboard they are presented with the panel they were originally viewing. Is there a way to get FileMaker to remember the active panel or must the panels be labeled as objects?

Hello all, I'm totally new to Filemaker, so I hope you'll bear with me as I try to explain what I'm doing and where I need a little help! As best I can tell, nobody seems to have had a question similar enough to mine for me to apply their solution to my problem. I am trying to script a behavior to automatically change the active Tab on a record, but with a slight twist. I currently have 4 tabs setup that are dynamically generated based on a user's selection of checkboxes (e.g., if 2 boxes are checked then two of the tabs take that text for their labels and the remaining two tabs are hidden -- solely for the sake of aesthetic design) The problem arises in that, o…

Hi, I have a field which is sometimes populated with 3 lines of text and other times just one line. For printing his field resizes using the sliding feature. But is there a way to have fields resize to their content size in browse mode, so not only when printing? Thanks!

is it possible to move to a new tab panel without without the data entered in the first panel being commited.

Hi all. What I want is to hide some text I placed in the footer unless I'm in a certain tab. I see a "hide control" property , but I can't figure out how to construct the command or script to put into it... Any hints? best, Andre

Hi,  I have created an interface with a tab control panel. On my computer it looks like the DeveloperPC image. However, if my customers opens the file on his computer he sees the customerPC image. In other words he does not see the tabs on his screen. When he changes the zoom level to 150% the tabs appear. Any idea what can cause this behaviour??  Thanks,  Joost Kingma Â

I'd like to keep the user on the currently selected tab even when the user leaves for another record. I have a script that identifies the currently active tab and another that restores that tab state. I can trigger the latter via layout script trigger "OnRecordLoad" but how do I trigger the "memorizer" - even when no changes have been made to the record? I am on FM11 so I don't have access to the new Tab-script behaviours.

Greetings, I am needing help with a problem I have been working on for the past few days. I have a Layout with a Tab Control (Main_Tab_Control) having 5 tab panels. The first tab panel is used to determine what informaiton is displayed on the following tab panels, based on several drop-down menus. On the last tab panel I want to nest an additional Tab Control (Sub_Tab_Control). Based on the information from the the first tab panel, I want this Tab Control to display only tabs that are needed. Ex: on the first tab panel a drop-down menu displays how many floors the building has "1, 2, 3, 4, and so on". Sub_Tab_Control has 10 tabs for 10 floors. If 3 is selected, th…

I have set 3 tabs: Detail, Main Course and Other. I have set a simple script to go to Main Course and nothing happens on screen when I run it? Detail is the default tab. Script: Go to Object / Object Name: "Main Course" Please advice

I just grouped a lot of fields together in one tab and copied them as a formatted group. I then pasted the group into all of my other tabs within my tab control. When I click onto browse mode and actually enter in data, the data is transferred to all of the fields in my other tabs, not just the one tab I'm entering data into. How do I fix this? Do I need separate fields for every single tab??? Â Thanks!! Â

I cannot figure out how navigate between tabs in Browse mode. I set up two fields in each tab (they are the same fields), and when I click on Browse, I can switch between tabs, and more, if I click on the front tab panel,a field from another tab nested behind it shows up! What am I doing wrong?? Â Â

I would like to use a tabbed panel to hold portal records. I do know about replicating the portal in each panel and using a different starting record number. This looks viable, but I don't know how to implement some other features I also need: I want the name of the tab to be a field from the record in the portal. One possibility seems to be a custom function or calculated field in the parent record to provide that field. Or what other way might be better? I want the number of tabs to be variable, depending on how many portal records there are (there will be less than 10). I don't see how to do that. Do I have to predefine the maximum number of tabs and copy the …

I'm trying to find a way to create a field with a value range of 100-200 (that's the easy part) and I want to use a sliding volume-control type method for the user so they can click on the slider knob or button and drag the slider either left or right to pick the value. I'd like for the user to still be able to enter the value manually as well. FMPro 13's slider doesn't do what I need, so I'm looking for a slider type button or such. Any suggestions or plugin ideas are appreciated. Thanks. I'm using FMP 13 advanced. ~Rich

I have - somehow - created a situation where non-active tabs are greyed out as shown in the attached image. I don't know how I did it - but I like the effect and would like to experiment further (different colours, etc) with it. Â Any ideas on how to get the effect? Â Frank

Hello, Is someone used / tested the calculations tab label as calculating layout? I use them for calculations layout, independent of context while waiting for the labels calculated. no field and copy paste, a layout to another. Here are 2 "techniques", the tab label as a calc and the window's UnicVariable for pass text for each windows Part of the demo can be complicated(?) but you can simplify and adapt the way. I do not know if this is the right forum or good technique, do not hesitate ! Best regards Agnès WindowVar_TabPanel.fmp12.zip

Hello, all-- Â When switching tabs, any text that had been selected in the original tab is no longer selected in the second tab. Â original tab: subsequent tab: An OnTabSwitch trigger, calling this simple script, didn't solve the problem; it seems like the conclusion of the script causes a jump back to tab1: Â Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks very much! Â Â

I'm trying to simply script tab navigation using the commonly-recommended method of naming the tabs as objects, and the using a GoToObject script step. While this certainly works with script buttons placed outside each tab on the tab panel, it doesn't seem to work when placing buttons on the tabs themselves. I.E., I have button on tab 2. It's displayed properly from Tab 1, but when attempt to click on it (from Tab 1) I'm navigated to Tab 2 first. Only then can I actually click on Tab 2's button. If this is standard operating procedure for Tab Panels, then scripted navigation is useless, imo. I mean, I'm scripting the navigation to OVERRIDE the existing tab …

In FM 12 Advanced I cannot get the Tab Panel Script Trigger script to return a Tab Panel Object Name using either of the Get functions: Get(TriggerCurrentTabPanel) or Get(TriggerTargetTabPanel) I have used the GetValue(Get(TriggerCurrentTabPanel);2) but it returns nothing. Using the same function GetValue(Get(TriggerCurrentTabPanel);1) returns the Panel Tab Number. I've watched videos of people doing this and I've copied examples but cannot get it to work. Anyone have a suggestion? Thanks, Jesse Filemaker Pro 12 Advanced Mac OS X 10.8

I'm having difficulty creating a simple line chart for related data in a tab panel. Currently, I have a "grid" of related fields (spreadsheet style, rows/columns) in multiple tab panels. Each tab panel needs to show a single related record. This is done by displaying the related fields in a portal on each tab panel, with each portal set to show only 1 row (row1 = record1, row2 = record2, etc). Thus, tabbing through will show one related record at a time. All of this works fine until I want to use a line chart to display the same data. I believe the issue is here: The chart will allow me to display a) the current record, b ) the current found set, or …

I have set a button up on a field to go to object and specified "photos" in my case but it doesn't work. I have named a field on the tab I want to go to "photos" in the inspector. Don't know if this is relevant but where I want to go to/from are on different layouts and tables. Am I missing something simple?

Hi everyone, thanks in advanced for your help. I want to go to a specific tab when the word "anticipo" is included in a field. I mean: I have the field "Name" and in the same record, I have two tabs called "anticipo" and "Date". I'd need that if the value of the field "name" is, for example, "John Anticipo Martinson", the "anticipo" tab be shown. If the name is "John Einstein" (and it hasn't any "anticipo" in it), the "Date" tab be shown. I set a scriptrigger on tabswitch: if [PatternCount(name; "anticipo")] go to object [object name: "anticipo"] else go to object [object name: "Date"] end if But when I click in the wrong tab, the wrong tab is …

I have Tab Control #1... and then I have Tab Control #2 embedded in the 4th tab of Tab Control #1 I have named the 4th tab of Control 1, WebTab4 On Tab Control #2 (embedded in Tab 4 of Tab Control #1), I have two tabs. I call them WebTab4a and WebTab4b, respectively. When I try to perform script step "Go To Object" to WebTab4, it works perfectly. When I try to perform script step "Go To Object: to WebTab4b, it fails with and Error 116 which is "Layout Object Missing". This happens regardless of whether or not I go to WebTab4 before, or not at all, prior to that script step. Any ideas? The environment is FM Server 12. Thanks,

Hello all, I am using the List View. Based on variables I want to display different groups of objects (buttons, text etc.) in different records (shown at the same time). My first attempt for a solution was to use tabs that I control via scripts. The problem is, that all records in the list view always display the same tab of a tab control. So if I go to one tab in a records all other records also go to this tab. Unfortunatly there is also no hide option that allows to hide groups of objects. Is there any solution? I have filemaker 11 and 12. Altough a solution for filemaker 11 would be prefered. Thank you!

All I want to do is send the user to a new layout upon clicking a tab. I can't seem to create a trigger with the value of the clicked tab name sent to the trigger as a parameter. I thought Get(LayoutObjectName) would do the trick but I get nothing. How to? D.

I have created a two tab control: 'Job' and 'History of Work' on a layout displaying the customer. The 'History of Work' uses a portal to display list of jobs done, whereas the 'Job' displays fields from a record in the job table. At present the 'Job' displays the last job entered which is ok but I would also like to select a job in the portal and have the 'Job' tab become active and display the selected job information. I can't seam to work out the last bit on displaying the selected job info.

Is there a way to put a list view of a table, or equivalent, in a tab panel control. I have a db that really needs this as opening a window on top of a window does not work, as far as I know, on FMGo. If a portal will work, terrific but I don't know if a portal can act like a list as I want to have a set of canned searches going into the list from which a user can drag and drop the selection into the view I have for the system. Any help on this would be terrific. FM12 is the rev I am using.

I have Tab Control with two tabs (Tab1 and Tab2). I set script trigger (OnTabSwitch). This script checks whether the user can change the tabs. How to prevent user from switching a tab. ( I have FMA12 )

When setting the Tab order in a Layout with a Tab Panel Control, I have discovered that Fields in table layers other than the front one cannot be included in the Tab sequence -- or, they can, but in practice those fields are ignored when the user tabs through the fields. Is there a best practice workaround for this, so that, for instance, a user may Tab from the last field on the 1st Tab Layer to the first field on the 2nd Tab layer, etc.? I'd think this is a common need . . .?

I have a field that is used on two different tab panels of a layout. My script needs to select the second occurrence and then do a Select All so the user can just type over the contents. I use Go To Object to display the correct panel, but how can I select the contents? A Select All doesn't work because a Go To Field hasn't been performed. But a Go To Field causes the first occurrence of the field to be selected. A Catch 22? From the FMP help: Thanks in advance for any help. UPDATE: I've solved my own problem. Select All does work. I had too many disabled elements in my test script and didn't notice an extra Go To Field [ ]. Sorry for the fals…

In Layout mode, when you select a single tab panel, you can see and edit its height (and other position data). I don't know how, but I now have a tab where one tab panel is a different height to the others in the same tab object. When I edit the height setting to make it the same as the others, the others automatically increase in tandem. So the difference in height remains the same. Can anyone tell me how to make all the tab panels have the same height? Many thanks in advance - W.

Just found a little bug related to the Tab Panel Control. If you've got a tab panel and you group a text box to it, then drop another text box on the panel, it automatically becomes part of that same group. I've tried this with text boxes and fields only, but it looks like grouping a tab panel with an item inside, makes that tab panel "sticky". David

I have just created my first data table, and am looking to start another tab with a second data table. What I am trying to do is create a database to input patient data. The tabs will be something like: "demographics" (this one I have completed), "classification of seizures," "classification of etiology," etc. I went to tab control and began a second tab. However, I am unable to find a way to create a second table... Does anyone know how i can do this? Additionally, after reading many of these forum threads, I am now wondering if this is the best way to organize my database. Since each record will be a patient, will I be able to remain on the same patien…

I am trying to update our database and create more space. When it was originally developed, the bottom half of the screen was split into two separate tab panels and information has been stored that way for years. I would like to merge all tabs into one large tab panel. Is this possible?

Hello, Any help on this would be greatly appreciated as I am a bit out of my depth. Basically I have 2 tab panels, 1 with a suppliers address on and 1 with a clients address on, you will look up the address via a drop down list. The user will only be able to choose a client address or a supplier address but not both. Is it possible to restrict the user so if he chooses a client address on tab 1 he won't be able to choose a supplier address on tab 2? Is it possible to make the tab with the address on always appear at the front? Any pointers would be fantastic Thanks James

I've just finished my 1st data/table that consists of 100 records each record shows my company's threat, how to resolve it, recommendations, actions, what the threat is about, and the start and end dates of when we started or finished solving the threat. NOW I need to make a 2nd data table. This new data will be a score card for EACH of the 100 records. This score card will have "whats done", "where are we now", "Prioritization", and etc. What I want to do is make two tabs. One tab is the 1st data (the one I've just finished) and the other tab will be the 2nd data which is the score card. So far I added two tab controls to my existing data already and was wond…

Hi there, I'm building a solution in wich I'm using TabPanel Controls a lot. The standard aligning behavior for the Tab(labels) is Left, Right, Center or Justyfy. I'm looking for a way to set the ailgnment to Left but let the first Panel start on x pixels. The reason is that the portal diplayed on the first tab has to be on 0 pixels from the left. This means that the tab(label) also will be on 0 pixels. I don't like that. Ofcourse it is possible that the labelsetting is Labelwith + margin but that applies to all of the tabs and not only the left one. Is there any solution? Thanks in advance. Adri

Hello As I am very new to Fm coming from Access and I hope I am asking my question in the correct area. Within my database I have included a tab which holds 12 container fields each of these fields (Container) is covered by a Jpg image of a filing cabinet draw-front, What I am trying to achieve is if the draw in empty then the image is displayed in front of the container and when the container field has content it moves or shows in front of the image. Then I can replicate this across the 12 draws. Any help you be appreciated. Regards. Ozzie Bruce

Hi I have set up a tab panel with 5 tabs - Tab A, Tab B, Tab C, Tab D and Tab E I have 5 buttons running at this stage off 5 individual scripts (very basic) Scripts- (each individual) Go to Object [Object Name: "Tab A"] Go to Object [Object Name: "Tab B"] Go to Object [Object Name: "Tab C"] Go to Object [Object Name: "Tab D"] Go to Object [Object Name: "Tab E"] Go to Object [Object Name: "Tab F"] and so on for each tab. The buttons then reference each tab with their own particular script. However the navigation works fine for Tab A and Tab B but won't work from Tab C onwards. Also to further cloud the problem if I change the "Tab A" name to …

On a given layout we have a tab tool with six or so tabs. Operators will often flip to a different layout (script driven navigation)and then come back to the original layout with the tab tool. Each time they return to the original layout the tab tool resets itself to the default tab. Is there a way to make the tab tool recall where it was left and stay there? Maybe setting a global variable by script somehow? Thanks for any suggestions.

I was attempting to put buttons over tab control tabs in an effort to seamlessly trigger a script when the tab control tab was pushed. This was not effective and now I can't delete the button object off of the second tab in the tab control without triggering the tab control. So I have no way to delete the button I added. Suggestions?

The idea is: - A tab panel with two tabs - A condition field (yes-no) The second one can only be accesible by choosing "yes" in the condition field. Is not a hide-unhide tab tread, I want it viewable but unaccesible, through mouse click, tab or whatever procedure. Is that possible? Thanks.

Hi, Is there an easy workaround for hiding tabs for printing? I have a chart in the main tab and would like to add a configuration tab for the chart (titles, ...), but I don't want it to show when printing. And also, I don't want to manage 2 different layouts. Thanks

Hi everyone this is my first post. I am quite new to FMP and I have been teaching myself thus far. I have some degree of experience in coding in Cocoa, ANSI C, BASIC, AppleScript and a little PHP. Anyhow I am creating a database in FMP Advanced 9 that organizes my clients, their respective systems, service records, invoices, estimates, purchase orders, inventory, active projects, notes and I would also like to implement a email message center of sorts. Basically I am attempting to develop a custom content management systems for my business. I am attempting to do this with a tab control to separate all of the above categories. While I am in editing mode everything is…

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I just upgraded from FMP7 to FMP11 and am having problems with the tabs feature. I created 3 tabs. I had 15 fields of which I wanted to place 5 under each tab. When I put 5 of my fields in one, they show up in each tab. If I place another 5 in another tab these also show up in all tabs. How do I make each set of 5 fields show up in each of my three tabs individually?

I want to create a layout which will contain a Tab Control, each Tab displaying and allowing for entry/update of a different table. None of the tables have any relationship with the others. I could create a form per Table, but this gives me more maintenance issues than I want which the Tab Control would resolve. Suggestions ?

Hi. I was wondering if it were possible to have tab controls based on field contents. My situation is this. I have a table with (at least) two fields in it - called ITEM and GROUP. Each record where there is an item will be a member of GROUP - for example: Record 1: ITEM="Hammer", GROUP="Tools" Record 2: ITEM="Chicken", GROUP="Food" Record 3: ITEM="Crowbar", GROUP="Tools" The task I have is to have a portal with a tab control in it. I want there to be as many tabs in that tab control as there are unique GROUP records - in this case 2 (Tools and Food), yet if I change the GROUP of one record to something new, then next time that portal is displayed, th…

I have a layout with two tabs. I was wondering if it is possible to have a form view layout on one tab and then a list view layout on the other tab.

I'm a newbie so please forgive this question. I have looked through all the threads on this but so far haven't found something that works. I have a field with a drop-down menu which I want to use to show/hide fields let's say the field is called select_tab with drop-down selections of A, B, C, D. In my tabs I have tabs A, B, C, D, E respectively. If I understand correctly, tab E (not being on the menu of select_tab) is to be used as the default tab and left with no contents. Tabs A, B ,C, D all have some fields which I want to display ONLY if the corresponding letter is selected in select_tab Having messed around with all the scripts I've fo…

Is there a way to combine "Tab Control Setup - Tab Name" with a field? i'd like the Tab name to be correspond to field name example Tab Name = Customer<>

I'm working on a database that was created in Filemaker 10 and am using Filemaker 11. I can duplicate this oddity with both Filemaker 11 and now Filemaker 10. I add a tab panel to a layout and add 2 tabs with default settings. I then create fields on each tab. The tab functions perfectly, keeping each of their respective fields on the tabs that they are supposed to be on. I then change the tab justification to full and change the tab type to square, and now the tab panel displays all fields across all of the tabs in the first tab. No amount of switching or playing around with the layout fixes this until I delete the tab and try again. Can anybody reproduce …

Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to have dynamic tab names? E.g. I have a contact page, if the contact is an employer, I would like the Mail tab to become the Salary tab, so it's name and function should be dynamic? Or some tabs should be restricted to some records, is that possible?

Hi All, BottomLine, GoToObject() now behaves exactly as I want it to. And this post is just to put my ever diminishing mind at ease. But has there been a change since 8.5? Let me explain the reason I ask with an example: Say you have a tab control set with "Car" and "Phone" tabs (object names of tabs always identical to label for this example). Then within the Car tab you had another tab control set with "Make" and "Color"; and within the Phone tab you had a tab control set with "Carrier" and "Smart". Then outside all the tab control sets you have a button with GoToObject("Smart"). Then if you were on the "Color" tab within the "Car" tab and you click that …

Hello, I searched for this, but didn't find anything. I was wondering if there is a way of changing the fill color of a tab panel by script?

Hello. I've got a calc field (result: container) that gets filled with a graphic when a certain condition is met: Case ( IsEmpty ( Comments ) ; Global::gYellowBar ; "" ) When I place this field on a tab panel, it does not refresh. It only updates when placed besides tab panels. The only way to get it filled is by switching to layout mode and then back to browse mode. Any ideas why this happens? Thanks for your help... Mike

On the standard tool bar there is a Preview button. I have just noticed, however, that if i am looking at a record in Browse mode, and click the Preview button to see what it would look like printed, i get taken to another record instead of the one i was browsing. If i click on the Exit Preview, i am taken back to the correct record again, strange behavior or is there a setting to fix this?

I have created a architectural material database. Each tab is a different kind of material (eg. flooring, cladding, furniture). Each tab has the excact same field structure (name, description,distributor etc). I want to avoid people from using more that one tab in the same record so that each product is by itself. I thought of being able to use the field "name of product"(available on all tabs)only once for each record, by blocking data entry at the rest of the "name of product" fields in the remaining tabs. I hope this is clear enough. Is such thing possible? Do you have any better ideas? Any advice would be very much appreciated because I cannot find the answer. …

I am new to scripting. I want to have a tab be selected based on a dropdown box. I can do this with a script and object name, but is there a way to trigger the script based on a calculation? I am using this for class passes. I have three tabs General Pass, Nurse Pass, Dress Code Pass. The default is General. For example -- If nurse pass is selected from drop down then the nurse tab is shown. If Dress code is selected from the pass type then the dress code tab is shown. Thanks.

Is there a way to duplicate the contents of a tab? I have a series of 12 tabbed layouts that essentially hold the same information but with small variation. I would like to minimize the visual differences between what you see on one tab vs what you see on another. Any ideas how to do this economically?

Is there a way you can change the selected and non-selected colours on the tab headers? Currently, the background colours on the tab headers are white (selected) and gray (not-selected). For example I'd like to be able to have the selected tab showing a red background and the non-selected tabs to be white. The fill colour of the tab body should not affected when you switch tabs. Thanks Brian

Is there a way to script the Open Tab Control box? I am using fake buttons to control my tab navigation and have my tabs set to zero pixels. Works fine in Browse mode, but very hard to find and open tab control in layout mode. Since the default tab is always returned when I go to layout mode, how do I get to the other tabs while in layout mode? Now, I have to "hunt and peck" around where the tab border is to find the panel. I don't see a script step to open tab control, but figure there must be a way??

Hi, I have a "Table of Contents" page that has several tabs. I have the Default tab set to "Main" but I have many other tabs called "Merchandising" "Production" etc.... If someone is within a layout, and they click the button I created called "Return to Main Menu" is there a way for me to instruct via scripting which tab it will return to on the Table of Contents instead of always going to the default?

I have a database with one table containing a number of fields. This is related to a table in another database using a reference number field. I would like to display all of the records from the main table in list format in a tab, and then when I select a 2nd tab, have the related records from the other table displayed in that 2nd tab (also in list view with one row per record, with each row corresponding to the respective row in the first tab, as defined by the reference number field). I tried doing this by putting the tabs themselves in the header of my layout, with the part containing the records (in the body of the tab panel) in the layout body. However, when I d…

Has anyone encountered this bug, where the tab label (but not the tab itself) is compressed (see attached screen grab). This is happening only on Windows, FMP9. The label is set to Verdana 10pt, no text style. Reinstalling FIleMaker can fix the problem, although it may reappear. It's happened with a couple of different Windows users. Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Thanks