Design Layout

[damon_albran]

Hi,

I am using FileMaker Developer 5 but I don't realise it enhance anything in design FM database.

It's wasting my time as I often change layout apperance, when I change the font or color, I've to go to every layout and every database to make the same small change all manually. Is there anyway to work filemaker layout design like the way Macromedia Dreamweaver does? Dreamweaver able to use a template to update all web page automatically.

Thanks,

Damon

[Kurt Knippel]

You can either design a "theme" and base your layouts on that theme. Or you can store all of the elements as data in another file. Make a file with sets of fields (repeating or not) for you labels, icons, backgrounds, etc. Then in your actual layouts you simply place those element fields on the screens, rather than the actual label/icon as you normally would.

To make changes, all you need to do it to modify the elements in that single file and the entire solution will change.