FileMaker Pro 11: Advanced Tutorials
Back Button / Back Layout pt. 2
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Now we can draw ourselves a circle on it because we make this button, it's going to highlight with a square and we don't want that. So we're going to do this real quick because we've done it many times before. Let's show the Inspector here and we see it's 20 by 19. I'm going to make it 20 by 20. I'm also going to change the color here of the line real quickly so we can see it. Let's move it a little bit over, a little bit, that's just about right; doesn't have to be perfect. It'll highlight pretty good. We can make it transparent again, get rid of this, go into Button Setup, have it perform our script. We'll type in Back here. We want Back Navigate and then we'll group this whole thing together so it's easier to move. So we'll Arrange and Group that and we'll go back down to a hundred percent and find out where this is at. Let's bring the Inspector back up and this is at 489 49. So we're going to copy that to the Clipboard and go to each layout and put that on there. So 489 49. We'll paste in there; 489 49 and we'll go to this layout and we have a little bit of a problem here. You can see our Quick Find is in the way so we might actually want to move our Quick Find somewhere else and I'm going to opt to move it up here. Kind of to the right here of this. May or may not like this but I don't have much choice here so we'll paste in there; 489 49 and then we'll move to the next layout. Remember, this is three pixels different so let's first move this kind of into the right spot here. And I'll adjust it later. Paste in our button; 489 49 and then what we have to do is move it three pixels over; 1, 2, 3. And let's see how that worked out. Now, you can see there's a little bit of a change in where this is located, this Quick Find so we have to adjust that real quickly. And I think this one's a little too high for us so I'm going to move this one down; a couple pixels down I believe. We'll switch over. OK, get it right on top of it; 1, 2 it looks like. I think it's adjusting just right now. So now we got it on all these layouts that are in the Customers. Your homework is to go and put it on all the layouts because it'll work just fine. So go into Browse Mode and we'll try navigating around. Let's first check out what our Data Viewer says though about this dollar sign dollar. See, there's some values already in there from previous so I want to make sure it's cleared out. So we've done that, move this down here, we'll move to Form, then to Notes, then to List and then we'll hit the Back Button. And you can see it works perfectly. You see how the values have all disappeared and it gives us the message. So there's a pretty good feature for going back through things. It's not quite perfect. We're going to add some bells and whistles and other features and of course, a forward button but for right now it's working pretty good. We got the name part of the script done in this feature and it really wasn't that hard.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | FileMaker Pro 11: Advanced |
| Author: | John Mark Osborne |
| SKU: | 34140 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-36-4 |
| Release Date: | 2010-07-09 |
| Duration: | 14.5 hrs / 159 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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