Database Reference
In-Depth Information
usually format all the tabs on a single Tab Control the same way, but you can select each tab
panel individually; the choices you make apply only to the currently selected tab. To select
the whole Tab Control (all its tabs and all the objects on each tab), use the selection rectangle
or Shift-click each tab panel.
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If you accidentally format a single tab panel when you meant to format the whole Tab Control, se-
lect your newly formatted tab and use the Inspector's Copy and Paste buttons to apply formats to
each tab panel. Better yet, just select the whole thing and apply the proper style.
Deleting a Tab Control
If you don't want a Tab Control after all, just select it and then choose Edit→Clear, or press
Delete or Backspace. FileMaker warns you that it's about to delete all objects on the tab pan-
el as well. If that's all right with you, click OK. If you need to keep fields or objects on the
tab panels, though, click Cancel and then move the keepers off the panel for safekeeping.
Adding a Popover Button
When you created the Lease Document container field (see
Managing Field Types
)
, you
made a simple container that stores a copy of an external file and shows an icon to let you
know what type of file has been stored in the field. But it might be handy to view the con-
tents of that file from your database. You might think you'd need to make a giant field that
uses massive screen real estate. But with a
popover button
, you can create a temporary over-
lay that only appears when a user clicks that button. The rest of the time, the overlay is hid-
den, letting users focus on the stuff they use most frequently.
To create a popover button, switch to Layout mode and follow these steps:
1.
Click the Agreement tab to select it. Drag the Lease Document field into the gray
area to the right of the layout
.
In this example, you're going to put a popover button for the Lease Document onto
the Agreement tab.
2.
In Windows, click the arrow to the right of the Button tool. On a Mac, press and
hold the Button tool in the Status bar
.
A pop-up menu appears, giving you the option to create a button or popover button.
3.
Choose “Popover button” from the menu and draw a button on the upper right
of the Agreement tab
.
