Database Reference
In-Depth Information
WARNING
If you customize menus even in the slightest, consider turning off the built-in Help menu as
well. It opens FileMaker's online help file, which can't answer people's questions about
your
custom menus. If you need documentation, then you can add your own Help menu that
leads people to the custom-crafted help on your website, for instance.
Figure 13-20. The Edit Custom Menu dialog box has many splendors. You can specify that
a menu appears only when someone is on a Mac, or only when she's in Find mode. You can
add, change, or remove keyboard shortcuts. You can even take the liberty of replacing a
command's normal action with a script.
4.
Select the dashed line in the Menu Items list just below “Go to Layout (sub-
menu),” and then press Shift as you select the last item in the list. Click the De-
lete button. Select Layout mode and then delete it too
.
All highlighted items disappear when you click the Delete button (those hyphens rep-
resent divider lines in menus). You should be left with three mode menu items, a di-
vider, and a “Go to Layout” menu (a total of five items) remaining in the list.
5.
Click the Browse mode menu item. Turn on the Item Name checkbox in the
“Override default behaviors” section and then change the title to “Browse.”
This menu item title replaces the text that appears in the list. People see a command
called
“Browse”
, not Browse mode. Notice the quotation marks around “Browse.” If
