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Formatting popover buttons and popovers
Copying, duplicating, and deleting popovers
Changing popover settings
Use the Popover Setup dialog box to change popover settings.
To change settings for a popover:
1. If the Popover Setup dialog box is not open in Layout mode, do one of the following:
• If the popover is closed: Double-click the popover button or select the popover button
and choose Format menu > Display Popover, then double-click the popover.
• If the popover is open: Double-click the popover or select the popover and choose
Format menu
> Popover Setup.
2. Do one or more of the following.
3. To close the Popover Setup dialog box, click outside the dialog box or click its close button.
Notes
• By default, popovers open to the right of a popover button, unless there isn’t enough room
on the layout for the popover to display.
• You can change the appearance of popover buttons and popovers independently of one
another. See
Formatting popover buttons and popovers.
• To change the appearance of fields and other layout objects on a popover, select the
objects on the popover, then use the
Inspector to make your changes. See Selecting and
working with objects on popovers.
To Do this
Change the title of the popover Type a title, with or without double quotation marks.
To specify a title based on a calculation, click (Windows) or
Specify (OS X) and define the calculation. See Specify
Calculation dialog box.
Show or Hide the title bar (and the
title)
Select or clear Show title bar.
Showing or hiding the title bar does not change the position of
the objects on the popover.
Change the direction in which the
popover opens on the layout
• Click Left , Right , Above , or Below
.
• Or, place the arrow pointer on the popover’s title bar
area (even if the title bar is hidden) and drag the
popover to a new direction.
Assign one or more script triggers
to the popover (if you want a script
to run when you open or exit the
popover)
Click Set Script Triggers and choose one or more script
triggers. See
Setting up script triggers and Creating scripts to
automate tasks.