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Posted by: Editor / Tuesday, December 22, 2009 – 9:28pm

by Matt Petrowsky

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How often do you really take advantage of Custom Menus? Personally, having worked with FileMaker for quite a while, I tend to ignore them and figure I'll just "teach the user FileMaker". When it comes to my interface, I'll just cram a ton of buttons on the layout and forget the menu. Wow, that's not a good idea! Why not just use Custom Menus?

The biggest hurdle I've encountered with using them is their approachability. The editor is poorly implemented, non visual and modal. This means you have to jump in and out of the Manage Custom Menus dialog and create a script to toggle between menu sets just so you can test your own menus. Testing is the biggest pain. So let's make that eaiser.

The solution is to create an easy system for creating and managing your own Custom Menus. This video will showcase a very simple, yet powerful, approach to using Custom Menus in FileMaker Pro. If you have any other suggestions then please leave a comment on this article.

Details: Released - 12/22/2009 / Size - 29.84 MB / Length - 22 min

About author

Matt Petrowsky is the Senior Editor for ISO FileMaker Magazine. Matt has been involved with FileMaker Pro since the early '90s. Having authored many articles, a popular book, spoken at conferences and seminars, as well as provided private training, Matt is continuously updating his knowledge and skill about the powerful FileMaker platform. You can contact Matt by sending email to editor@filemakermagazine.com.