Filemaker Pro 9 (33)

Question 1

1. On what page is GRAPHIC FORMATTING?

Answer 1

p 255

Question 2

2. p 258 ADDING BUTTONS. How do you add a BUTTON?

Answer 2

BUTTON TOOL. In addition to a regular button, you can designate any OBJECT in the layout to be a BUTTON.

Question 3

3. You can even turn one of a record’s EXISTING FIELDs into a BUTTON, and FileMaker capitalizes on the fact that:

Answer 3

FileMaker ALWAYS selects a RECORD when you CLICK it in LIST VIEW.
And when you SWITCH LAYOUTS, it always stays on the same record NO MATTER WHICH LAYOUT YOU USE.

Question 4

4. How do you turn a MERGE FIELD into a BUTTON?

Answer 4

a. LAYOUT: select TEXT OBJECT (MERGE FIELD).
b. FORMAT–>BUTTON SETUP
c. Choose GO TO LAYOUT button action, click OK.

Question 5

5. How do you know that a MERGE FIELD object has been turned into a BUTTON?

Answer 5

Format the OBJECT so that it looks like a LINK, using blue font and underlining it (as is prevalent in internet links).

Question 6

6. You already have a LAYOUT OBJECT formatted as a BUTTON, how do you remove its “buttonness”?

Answer 6

a. FORMAT–>
b. BUTTON SET UP
c. In the BUTTON ACTION LIST, choose DO NOTHING.

Question 7

7. FORMAT–>BUTTON:
   BUTTON SETUP dialog box:
   GO TO RECORD/REQUEST/PAGE.
   What does this option do?

Answer 7

i don’t know…

Question 8

8. FORMAT-->
BUTTON:
BUTTON SET UP dialog box:
GO TO FIELD. 
What does this do?

Answer 8

It takes you to a specific field by choosing it in the OPTIONS area SPECIFY button.

Question 9

9. LAYOUT:
   BUTTON TOOL:
   BUTTON SETUP dialog box.
   When you select GO TO FIELD in the LHS, the OPTIONS area on the RHS gives you a SELECT/PERFORM checkbox. What does it do?

Answer 9

for TEXT, NUMBER, DATE, TIME, and TIMESTAMP FIELDS, this option tells FileMaker to SELECT THE CONTENTS OF THE FIELD so users can just start typing to replace it.

Question 10

10. What does the SELECT/PERFORM option do when the field is a CONTAINER FIELD?

Answer 10

It tells FileMaker to PERFORM the field content; play the movie or sound, open the file, etc.

Question 11

11. What are the SECTIONS of the BUTTON SETUP dialog box?

Answer 11

a. LHS: BUTTON ACTIONS
b. RHS: OPTIONS
c. RHS, bottom: BUTTON STYLE.