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Creating and managing layouts and reports
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Note Be sure to select each item (including a folder’s layouts and subfolders) that you want to
appear in the Layout pop-up menu. Only the items you select are displayed.
4. When you are finished, close the Manage Layouts dialog box.
Notes
• Use Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (OS X) to select multiple layouts and folders.
You can duplicate and delete multiple layouts and folders, and you can open multiple
layouts.
• The Menu Set column of the Manage Layouts dialog box displays the menu set associated
with each layout. You create menu sets using the Custom Menus feature, available only
with FileMaker
Pro Advanced. See Defining custom menus (FileMaker Pro Advanced) or
the FILEMAKER PRO ADVANCED FEATURES GUIDE.
Duplicating, deleting, or renaming layouts
You can duplicate, delete, and rename layouts using the Manage Layouts dialog box.
To duplicate, delete, or rename layouts:
1. In Layout mode, save the layout that you want to duplicate, delete, or rename.
2. Choose File menu > Manage > Layouts.
3. In the Manage Layouts dialog box, make the changes you want.
Notes
• A file must have at least one layout, so you can’t delete the last one.
• Layout names do not have to be unique.
• You can't copy a complete layout to another FileMaker Pro file, but you can copy and paste
all of a layout’s objects into a layout in another file. Select the layout objects you want to
copy, and choose Edit menu
> Copy. Then switch to the layout in the other file, and choose
Edit menu
> Paste. If field names are not identical in both files, you will need to respecify
To Do this
Duplicate a layout Select the layout, and click Duplicate. The layout name is
duplicated, with Copy appended to it.
Note If you have unsaved changes in the layout you’re
duplicating, you’re asked if you want to save the changes.
Click Save to save the changes in the original layout and
include them in the duplicated layout. Click Don’t Save to
discard the changes to the original layout (and no changes
will be included in the duplicated layout). If you're
duplicating multiple open layouts with unsaved changes,
you see an alert for each layout. Clicking Cancel cancels
duplicating the current and any other open layouts.
Delete a layout Select the layout, and click Delete, then click Delete in the
alert message. You can’t undo deleting a layout.
Rename a layout Double-click the layout name in the list (or select the layout
name and click Edit) to display the Layout Setup dialog box.
For Layout Name, type a descriptive name, then click OK.