It doesn’t matter what route you take if you don’t have a destination
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Trigger happy
One thing that I really like about the direction that FileMaker has been going in since version 9 has been how the programming environment now encourages of the use of native UI features in FileMaker in highly customized solutions. Those of us who have been developing prior to FileMaker 9 – or those of us who have inherited solutions built before 9 – know all too well what it means to lock down the Status Area and then build core UI elements from scratch to replace the lost functionality. Many developer-hours have been spent to ‘reinvent’ features that were already in FileMaker, but in prior versions couldn’t be modified well enough to work in certain situations.
A clear, obvious example of this is the Toolbar. Almost every single ‘professional’ system I have worked with by default hides the Toolbar, and then the developer is forced to reinvent the forward and back buttons, the book/rolodex widget, and every other element of the Toolbar using buttons and scripts on the layout itself. What a waste of time!
In this blog post I’m going to look at one small segment of the Toolbar – the “View As” widget – as an example of how the Toolbar can be leveraged using Script Triggers. Continue reading ‘Easy Navigation between Form / List / Table views in FIlemaker 11 using ‘View as:’’
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