Help

Creating and managing layouts and reports
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Or, in Browse mode, choose File menu > Manage > Layouts, and click New.
You see the New Layout/Report assistant, which helps you create the type of layout you want.
As you make your choices, additional options are presented to you. For some types of layouts,
such as labels, envelopes, and reports, you see additional panels.
2. When you have finished making your choices, click Finish to create the layout.
3. For layouts designed for computers or touch devices, add fields to the layout.
See About defining database fields.
4. If you intend to print a report in landscape orientation or on a special paper size, choose File
menu
> Print Setup (Windows) or File menu > Page Setup (OS X), confirm the orientation
and paper settings, then click OK.
In Preview mode, you can also click Print Setup (Windows) or Page Setup (OS X) in the status
toolbar.
Modified Print Setup and Page Setup settings affect all other layouts in the current file, so you
may need to change these settings later to print other layouts properly.
Notes
• Some FileMaker Pro layouts are divided into layout parts, which are areas on the layout that
control how and where to display and print data, text, and graphics. FileMaker Pro includes
the body, header, and footer parts as needed on a layout depending on the choices you
make in the New Layout/Report assistant. Reports with grouped and totaled data also have
subsummary parts, grand summary parts, or both. You have complete control over adding,
removing, or modifying layout parts after you complete the assistant. See
Working with
layout parts.
• Each layout that you create is assigned a layout theme. If the new layout is the same type
(Computer, Touch Device, or Printer) as the current layout, the same theme is assigned to
the new layout; if the new layout is a different type, the appropriate default theme is
assigned. The default theme for Computer layouts is Enlightened, the default theme for
To Do this
See an onscreen Help topic that explains
the choices in the current panel
Windows: Press F1 (Windows) or Command-?
(OS
X).
Note If the layout you’re creating has additional
panels (such as for labels, envelopes, or
reports), you can also click (Windows) or
(OS X) to get information about those
panels.
Accept the settings in the panel and
continue to the next panel (available for
labels, envelopes, and report layouts)
Click Continue or Next.
Accept the settings in the panel but go
back to the previous panel (available for
labels, envelopes, and report layouts)
Click Back.
Close the assistant without saving any of
your choices
Click Cancel.