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Creating and managing layouts and reports
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2. Click Layout Setup in the layout bar.
You can also click the name of the layout’s current table.
3. In the Layout Setup dialog box, click the Views tab, then select one or more views.
Unless you change the default settings, FileMaker Pro enables all views.
4. Click Properties to specify the Table View options you want.
The following table describes the options you can specify in the Table View Properties dialog
box. When you’re finished specifying Table View options, click OK.
5. For Default view, choose the view to display whenever you first open the layout.
6. Click OK.
Notes
• You can view data that is in subsummary parts in Table View, List View, Preview mode, or in
a printed report when records are sorted by
break fields.
• If Include column headers is selected, users can right-click the column heading in Browse
mode and choose the appropriate command to define fields, hide or delete fields, create a
dynamic report, or reset the Table View. See
Working with data in Table View.
• To change the background color of the table, make sure the fields are transparent, then
change the color of the body part. The column headers pick up their font attributes (except
When you select This View menu item is enabled in Browse and Find modes
Form View View as Form
List View View as List
Table View View as Table
To Do this
Specify table grid settings Select Horizontal, Vertical (or both), choose a color for the
grid, and a style for the grid lines.
Specify whether FileMaker Pro
displays the header or footer part
Select Include header part, Include footer part, or both.
These settings only matter if you have defined header and
footer parts for the layout, and are only in effect in Table View.
Specify whether FileMaker Pro
displays column headers and how
they behave
Select Include column headers (which display the field
names).
To allow users to resize column widths by dragging column
boundaries in Browse mode or Find mode, also select
Resizable columns.
To allow users to reorder one or more columns by dragging in
Browse mode or Find mode, also select Reorderable columns.
Specify a custom row height (all
rows are the same height)
Select Use custom height, then choose a unit of measure and
type a value.
When this option is cleared, FileMaker Pro adjusts the row
height to accommodate the largest font size defined for any of
the fields on the layout.