Auto Updating / Template Layouts

[Ballistic P]

I need to create about 35-40 individual Layout pages from one Main Layout page, but is there a way to update all sub pages if I edit the original Main Layout page? (basically, like having a

[andygaunt]

in a word.....no.

FileMaker layouts are seperate from each other. There is no "template" based page that other layouts work off of.

You can to some degree do this by using dynamic elements (such as fields for colors, and text elements called from a preferences table) but sometimes you just have to do things manually.

Sorry.

[Lee Smith]

In version 5/6 there was a program called ThemeCreator that would do a little of this.

Theme Creator 2.0 By: Beverly Voth URL:

http://www.fmfiles.com/dev7.html

Don't know if this was converted to v7, but HTH

Lee

[Ballistic P]

Great, Thanks Lee!!!!