ISO FileMaker Magazine

Aside from the welcome user interface refresh in FileMaker 2025, a valuable enhancement has been made to the existing grouping feature. This update encourages greater use of grouped layout objects and helps reduce the number of layout-based calculations, a point of frustration with the previous limitation.

Prior to FileMaker 22, if you applied either a button action (now discouraged) or a hide calculation, you had to ungroup the object before adding anything new to the group. This often caused problems: if you forgot to copy the calculation before ungrouping, you risked losing it and then had to reapply it after regrouping.

With the new enhancement, you can now add or remove elements from a group in multiple ways with no ungrouping required. This short video will walk you through the feature in detail.