October 10, 200718 yr Newbies I'm having trouble with FM 8.5, I have tabs set up (I hope!) correctly. When they are viewed in layout mode all the correct fields and objects appear in the correct tabs, however, when viewed in browse mode, all the fields from each tab appear in all the tabs, overlapping each other. I have tried starting over, deleting tabs, arrangements etc but nothing seems to work, it's very frustrating as in layout mode they seem fine, it's probably something very simple but I'm new to this!!! Any suggestions? Thanks much in advance
October 10, 200718 yr Make sure that the fields are not extending off their tab. They must be within their tab border or FM doesn't know which tab they belong to and they float above the tab.
October 10, 200718 yr Author Newbies Hi John, thanks for your reply, I just squeezed everything together and made sure they were inside the tab borders but it didn't work unfortunately. The thing that baffles me is that when I tried a test version just to practice, it worked fine and I can't figure out what I've done differently! Thanks anyway!
October 10, 200718 yr Author Newbies Just realised your name isn't John, so sorry, not paying attention
October 11, 200718 yr Tab panels are FM8 and above. This is a big guess, but you're not opening this in FM7?
October 16, 200718 yr I am having this exact problem and I am using FMPro 9 Advanced. I only noticed it because I was playing around with a tab design from Scriptology and it works fine in its home file but when I paste it into a new layout in my file all of the fields on all tabs become visible in browse mode. Tried resizing fields, didn't work. Created new fields/objects on individual tabs and the new objects are subject to the same problem. I am going to do it from scratch now in a new layout and see what happens. If that doesn't work, I will post a sample. ------------ It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school." - GK Chesterton, 'Heretics'
October 16, 200718 yr I figured it out! The tab control is affected by the header/footer. It has to be completely enclosed in the body of the layout. I didn't notice because it was juuuuuust barely offending the boundary. Courtesy of the Missing Manual: http://books.google.com/books?id=lRm4uB2CoKMC&pg=PA283&lpg=PA283&dq=filemaker+tab+control+bug&source=web&ots=5vMNA-Jm_B&sig=NebgwDGm9WPdYf-6FG4ifLLz5I8 -------------- “It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.” -G. K. Chesterton
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