Filemaker Pro 9 21

Question 1

1. p. 198. SETTING ANCHORS IN LIST LAYOUTS. Anchors don’t quite work the same way on a LIST LAYOUT as on a DETAIL LAYOUT. Why?

Answer 1

Because the BODY PART has to repeat over and over for each record in your found set. ANCHORED FIELDS on LIST LAYOUTS EXPAND HORIZONTALLY, BUT NOT VERTICALLY.

Question 2

2. How can you expand fields in LIST LAYOUT to reveal just a bit more text if the screen size permits it?

Answer 2

AUTORESIZING, by going to the OBJECT INFO PALETTE and clicking on the RIGHT anchor.

Question 3

3. p 202. HOW TO CREATE A REPORT. 
LAYOUT MODE: 
LAYOUT-->
NEW LAYOUT/REPORT, 
then:

Answer 3

make the necessary choices with the fields and sort order, choose the theme, header, footer, etc.

Question 4

4. When creating a report you are asked if you want to CREATE A SCRIPT. What does this do?

Answer 4

If you accept to CRATE A SCRIPT, you’ve just CREATED A COMMAND to the SCRIPT MENU. You can choose this MENU command to run the report.

Question 5

5. What happens if you choose the DO NOT CREATE A SCRIPT option when creating the report?

Answer 5

Remember that you defined a SORT ORDER when you were creating the report. If you DO NOT CREATE A SCRIPT, then the SORT ORDER you specified does you no good, without a script, YOU HAVE TO SORT THE RECORDS YOURSELF.