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Using the tab control feature - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: Learning FileMaker 16
Using the tab control feature
- [Narrator] A Tabbed Interface is a popular design feature for many applications. In those cases when you select each Tab you can display unique set of objects or data. Thereby allowing you to use the same section of your layout real estate for multiple different purposes. So for example, let's say we're restricted to just this space where we can put the content in our layout and let's say we got a bunch more stuff that we want to put on here or maybe make some things larger. Well, we don't want to make it so that the users have to scroll. So how about if we recycle that space in the middle? The way that you can do that is by adding something called a Tab Control in FileMaker. If you look here in the layout toolbar when you're in layout mode you'll see that the Tab Control tool is the one that's found right here. But before we do that I'm going to move some of these items off to the right here. Including these two previous locked items. And the reason I'm doing that is because I'm…
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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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