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Popovers in your layouts - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: Learning FileMaker 16
Popovers in your layouts
- [Instructor] A Popover button is a layout object in FileMaker that expands to display a popover object, which floats over the window obscuring some content behind it. But its purpose is to be a panel in which you can display any type of layout object. Similar to a tab control, or a slide control, it does have the same context as the layout behind it. Popover buttons are handy in situations where you might otherwise have to have opened up a window. Some examples of where a popover can be useful, include displaying detailed information on a field or object. Let's say you have a small field that has a lot of text in it, and you want people to be able to see an exploded, or zoomed-in view. You could also have it show a portal that shows related data. So let's say you've got an invoice on a list view, and you want to pop open to show a portal of all the contents of that invoice or line items. And it's also helpful to put web viewers in popovers, because web viewers tend to require a lot…
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Using guides, arranging, aligning, grouping and locking layout objects7m 12s
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Applying themes to layouts1m 28s
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Working with shapes in your layouts6m 14s
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Applying screen stencils6m 13s
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Working with images and icons on your layouts5m 57s
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Gradients2m 6s
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Formatting fields and applying field attributes5m 35s
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Layout object states6m 2s
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Access control behavior1m 59s
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Using the tab control feature6m 36s
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Using slide controls in your layouts4m 15s
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Popovers in your layouts6m 18s
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Setting the tab order3m 23s
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Learning how to conditionally hide layout objects4m 52s
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Using the layout objects window5m 28s
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