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Adding fields to layouts

Adding fields to layouts - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Adding fields to layouts

- In this movie I wanna show you how you add fields that you've defined to your layouts. Now, the reason I'm doing this now is because the rest of the exercises throughout this course you're gonna need fields on the layouts. Now, one quick note you may already have fields on your layout. So, for example, if you followed along with the exercises and you look over at the product's layout you may have all of these fields on here and the reason for that is because we imported in the products table into this file. And if you did the same thing along with the exercise then you'll have a layout that looks just like this because when FileMaker imports a table in it creates the table, defines all the fields, and creates a layout and puts all those fields on a layout for you. The problem is if for example you're on the customer's layout and you don't have these fields defined you're going to need to add them. Now, you may already have them on there and if you do, the reason for that is because…

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