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Figure 8-29. Top: The thick black line is set to slide up and close the empty space below the text,
but clearly it's not. Bottom: After the field is also configured to slide up, it shrinks to be just tall
enough for its contents, and the black line can now slide up.
Here's how to fix up your People Report layout:
1.
Select the Notes field, click the Inspector's Position tab and then locate the Slid-
ing & Visibility section
.
2.
Turn on the “Sliding up based on” checkbox
.
If you stop here, you don't quite have your problem solved. Even though the Notes
field shrinks as much as possible, the Body part itself doesn't shrink, and your report
still wastes paper. To solve this problem, turn on “Also resize the enclosing part.”
3.
Switch to Preview mode by pressing Ctrl+P (
⌘
-P), saving your changes when
prompted
.
If you view your report now, things should look much better.
Figure 8-30
agrees.
NOTE
Once you start adding sliding to your layout, you might have trouble keeping track of which objects
do what. To ease the pain, choose View→Show→Sliding Objects. When you do, FileMaker adds
little up-pointing and/or left-pointing arrows to each object that slides. Now you can see at a glance
what goes where.
