filemaker pro 16 hide text on mobile device

If you use button bars in FileMaker Pro 14, sort and export dialogs will display only data fields to users. The presence of those user-interface elements in the dialogs inevitably confuses users. This works okay but has an undesirable side-effect: when users are shown a dialog that lists the fields on the current layout-for example, the sort dialog-the fields used as objects will be listed, too, even though they are not data fields at all. The old way to get dynamically labeled buttons involved defining fields in a utility table, placing the fields on layouts and turning them into de facto buttons by attaching actions to them. There are many reasons why this matters, but one reason is that it makes it possible to change a button’s label simply by modifying the calculated result if you couldn’t do that, you’ve have to edit each instance of the button on possibly scores of layouts, one button at a time. Developers of large solutions often want their buttons to have calculated or dynamic labels. Because button bar elements can generate labels from calculations, they are a very smart alternative to old-fashioned buttons.Įqually-if not more important-the button bar eliminates an old headache for developers and users alike.

The new button bar makes it easy to create user attractive, consistent interfaces. The new button bar object eliminates most of the busy work, because the buttons in a button bar are defined as a set from the get-go. Invariably, however, you’d spend a lot of time fiddling with the placement of individual buttons. It’s always been possible to drop multiple buttons on a layout, then copy and paste them on another layout. A more significant new feature is a new layout object called a button bar.

Filemaker pro 16 hide text on mobile device