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Customizing files with FileMaker Pro Advanced
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5. After you create or edit the custom menu, you can create custom menu items. See Creating
and editing custom menu items (FileMaker Pro Advanced).
6. Click OK to close the Edit Custom Menu dialog box.
7. In the Manage Custom menus dialog box, for Default menu set for this file, choose a
menu set. If you do not choose a default menu set, the standard FileMaker menus are used.
8. Click OK to close the Manage Custom Menus dialog box.
Notes
• You must have full access privileges to customize menus.
• When you create a file, no internal structures for custom menus or custom menu sets exist
in the file. The first time you open the Manage Custom Menus dialog box, FileMaker
Pro
creates these structures. If you click Cancel, you are prompted to discard changes made in
the file. If you don’t want to store custom menu structures in the file, click Discard.
• To create custom menus or custom menu sets in a FileMaker Pro file created via
FileMaker
Server, you must open the file using FileMaker Pro Advanced.
• You can check your runtime solutions to see if custom menus are installed:
• Windows: Choose Help menu > About FileMaker Pro, then click Info.
• OS X: Choose FileMaker Pro menu > About FileMaker Pro, then click Info.
When custom menus are installed, the dialog box displays “Custom Menus Active”.
• You may need to modify menu sets and specify when FileMaker installs them.
• Custom menus display in FileMaker Pro and runtime solutions but can only be edited using
FileMaker
Pro Advanced.
• Web published databases do not recognize customized menu commands. For example, if
you customize the New Record command to quit the application, this will have no effect in
FileMaker
WebDirect; web users will see the default New Record command.
• FileMaker features only work if they are included in a menu. For example, if you remove the
View menu from the menu set and do not have any scripted buttons on the layout to switch
views, the mode buttons in the status toolbar are disabled, making it impossible for your
users to switch modes.
• To add custom menu items for new features to menu sets created in previous versions of
FileMaker, create a new custom menu and add the new menu item from the list of standard
FileMaker menus in the Create Custom Menu dialog box.
• If the Edit menu is not part of an installed menu set, the Cut, Copy, and Paste shortcuts do
not work.
• Shortcut menus display when a user right-clicks (Windows) or Control-clicks (OS X) an
object or an area. If you customize a menu item that has a shortcut menu item, you also
customize the behavior performed by the shortcut menu item.
• It is important to provide user documentation with your solution because the custom menus
won’t match the product documentation.
Specify in which modes to
display the menu
For Include in mode, select in which modes you want the menu to
appear (Browse, Find, Preview). When users switch modes, the
menu set changes to display only the menus specified for that mode.
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