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Understanding layout parts - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 12 Essential Training
Understanding layout parts
When you're working with layouts in FileMaker, you're going to notice that they're divided up into several different parts. Go into Layout mode, and if you take a look at the Customers layout you'll see that we've got this one section up here that's called the Header and then in-between the Header and what's called the Footer--which is on the bottom--we have this area that's called the Body. In this movie, I'm going to describe the different roles of these parts and how you can manipulate the parts that are currently already on your layout. First of all, you should know that each layout must have at least one part, and layout parts can contain fields, layout objects, buttons, text, and any other type of object that you want to throw on there. The dotted horizontal lines that you see here mark the division between the layout parts, and the part label appears at the left end of the divided line. Also notice on the very bottom of your layout there is an option here that says Click to…
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