Making Main Inter Faces for FMP 5.5

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I have several databases that I would like to link up with a central interface, before I put them all onto our filemaker server. But I do not have anyone who knows what I am talking about. Can you help???

[Kurt Knippel]

I almost always setup a main menu file in any system I develop. I launch this file (or maybe a security file which then launches the main menu) and it contains buttons which runs scripts to load all the other files as needed.

Just start with a single file with buttons that open the other files. I will always do this by running a startup script in the remote file, rather than simply opening the file and leaving it up to the user as to what to do.

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Kurt,

Any chance you can run that by me again, but give me the "Main Interfaces for DUMMIES" version?

[Kurt Knippel]

1.) Create a new file called "MainMenu.fp5"

2.) For each of your hosted files (or sets of files)

Create a script in MainMenu with one step:

Perform Script [External, HostedFile]

This is the actual script which will open the remote file, and do something, typically it will take you to a layout in that file.

3.) Create a layout in MainMenu

4.) Create a button on this layout for each script created in step 2.

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Thank you Kurt, you are the capt.