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Editing objects, layout parts, and the layout background
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ILEMAKER PRO HELP 301
To name an object:
1. In Layout mode, select the object or grouped object that you want to name.
For more information, see Selecting objects.
2. Click Inspector in the layout bar, then click Position.
3. In the Position area, type a value for Name.
4. Press Enter or Tab, or click outside the Inspector to apply the changes.
Notes
• No two objects can have the same name on the same layout. For information on copying a
named object, see
Copying, duplicating, and deleting objects.
• Objects on different layouts can have the same name.
• Object names are not case-sensitive — for example, “Button1” and “button1” are treated as
the same object name.
• Object names can contain up to 100 characters.
• You can assign a name to an individual object or to a grouped object, but not to multiple
objects. Individual objects retain their names even if you group them. However, to see or
edit the names of individual objects in a group, you must ungroup them first.
• The name you give a field in the Manage Database dialog box is independent of the object
name that you can give a field in the Inspector.
• If you need to automate navigation to an object of any type, assign the object a name and
create a script that uses the Go to Object script step. If you have more than one copy of the
same field on a layout (for example, the same field on different tab panels), assign an object
name to the copy of the field you want to navigate to. Use the Go to Object script step,
rather than the Go to Field script step, and refer to the desired copy of the field by its object
name rather than by its field name.
Defining conditional formatting for layout objects
You can format layout objects to change automatically when they meet specified conditions. For
example, you can use conditional formatting to automatically display balances that are over 30 days
past due in bold, red text. Conditional formatting settings affect only the way data is displayed or
printed, not how data is stored in the database.
To specify conditional formatting for objects:
1. In Layout mode, select one or more objects.
For more information, see Selecting objects.
2. Choose Format menu > Conditional.
3. In the Conditional Formatting dialog box, click Add to define a new condition.
4. Specify the condition for formatting data in the selected objects.
• To specify a format based on common conditions, for Condition choose Value is. Then
choose one of the following conditions and set the parameters.
Choose To format
between Data that falls between and includes the values specified