Forgive me for not knowing the exact name of the part of filemaker on the left side of the form that shows the modes and record numbers, but is there anyway I can make a layout that does not show this?

I'm making a reports menu which will basically be a 400 X 400 pixel window with a list of reports. It will open on top of the main form. It's soul purpose is to select a report, so there will be no records in it, thus no need to display record numbers or browse, preview and form views.

Thanks in advance. Hopefully this makes sense.

Hi Levi,

Its called the status area. On your script that goes to the report, put in a script step of Show/Hide Status Area [Hide]. You can lock them into that mode too if you wish (checkbox), but remember you need to Unhide it in another script step later if on other layouts you want them to use it. Personally I like mine hidden and locked.

Very cool. Thanks mr_vodka. I don't think I want the status bar in any of my forms since all the functionality of it is in the reports. Is there anything in Filemaker that is the equivalent of "on create" or "on open", where you can specify a script to run when the user first opens the database?

Look in the file options... there is a place to choose a script which runs when the user first opens the database.