Database Reference
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Figure 13-27. Custom menus can be tied to particular layouts, thus ensuring the user easy access
to useful commands and little exposure to potentially harmful ones.
NOTE
Since you're effectively removing features for people when you customize menus, thorough testing
is a critical part of the process. Be sure to test menus with all affected layouts, privilege sets, and
scripts, and across platforms. In FileMaker Pro Advanced, choose Tools→Custom Menus to switch
among sets as you test them. If you get stuck, you can always get back to familiar ground by choos-
ing Tools→Custom Menus→[Standard FileMaker Menus].
Developer Utilities
The Tools→Developer Utilities command looks insignificant and benign to the unsuspecting
person, but behind it lurks a vast array of powerful features. You have developer utilities for
the following techniques:
▪ Rename one file in a system of interconnected files, and have every file reference in the
other files automatically update to the new name.
▪ Turn your database into a kiosk system. You can use this feature to make interactive pro-
grams that run on publicly accessible computers. In this setup, FileMaker hides the menu
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