User-based Value Lists

by Matt Petrowsky

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FileMaker provides a wonderfully easy interface for adding values to a value list. You simply type in values to be presented within your Pop-up, Drop-down, Radio or Checkbox field. Set the field to use the value list and you're good to go.

The problem, however, is being stuck with those values and then scripting an entire solution around them. If you know for 100% sure - of course, who's ever 100% sure - they will never change, and you're only EVER going to work in that one database within that one single language, then you'll need little of what this video presents. Of course, you'll miss out on some great tips.

If, however, you relish in flexibility and control, this video will present some of the most useful information you may discover about value lists. The video will show you how to account for user specific values and how to centralize your control over these values and how they are presented.

You'll even learn how to precisely control the presentational order of the values within the user interface. We're talking about centralized, multi-lingual, permissions-based, full developer sorting controlled value lists.