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Printing in different views - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 12 Essential Training
Printing in different views
When you're printing in FileMaker you really have two different options for how you are going to print your data. You can either print out one record at a time or you can print out all the records in a Found Set. When you're looking at printing multiple records or records in a Found Set, the most common way to do that is in a List View, any layout can be a List View, for example, you see here all I have to do is toggle between Form View which just shows me one record on screen at a time, and, by the way, we'll also only print one record at a time, or I can set it to view as a list. But the thing that really makes it an efficient printing view is that in Layout mode the body part, which you see here on the left that contains all of the different fields for this record. Actually is only high enough so that it can accommodate the fields, that way there is not a lot extra white space. This will be the most efficient way to be able to print multiple records at a time. If you go into let's…
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