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Customizing files with FileMaker Pro Advanced
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• Standard FileMaker menus and menu items are localized based on the operating system’s
language. However, if you customize the title of a menu or menu item, it will not be localized
when the system’s language is changed.
• Standard FileMaker menu items are dimmed if users don’t have privileges to perform the
menu command. Menus are not dimmed if you attach a script to the menu item.
• The Open Help script step displays FileMaker Pro Help, not customized help.
• A previous version of FileMaker Pro Advanced (FileMaker Developer) allowed you to
customize the Help, About, and Scripts menus for runtime solutions. If you use
FileMaker
Pro Advanced to open a runtime file created in FileMaker Developer, any
customized About, Help, and Script menus will appear as part of the Standard FileMaker
Menus menu set. You cannot change them. Custom Menu Set 1 provides a copy of the
FileMaker
Pro Advanced standard menus.
• In OS X, menu cropping may occur depending on the number of custom menus installed
and the resolution of the display screen. To display all menus, reduce the number of custom
menus or increase the screen resolution.
• Custom shortcuts can only use characters found on English/U.S. keyboards. You can also
use the yen character on Japanese keyboards. If you use the yen character as a shortcut,
the character appears as a backslash (\) in the Specify Shortcut and Edit Custom Menus
dialog boxes in OS
X. When you install the menu on a Japanese system, the character
appears properly as the yen character.
• In OS X, you cannot use AppleScript to access the FileMaker Pro menu (or its menu items)
if the menu is not included in the installed menu set.
• In Browse mode, the Constrain Found Set and Extend Found Set menu items appear in
shortcut menus. You cannot customize their actions.
• In Find mode, titles of custom menus and menu items that are based on field values that are
not global will be blank.
• If you customize an action for any of the following commands, the corresponding icon
performs the customized action. If you remove any of these commands from the menu bar,
the corresponding icon performs the default action:
• Zoom In and Zoom Out commands are executed via the zoom control buttons.
• Status toolbar command is executed via the status toolbar control button.
• Perform Find command is executed via the Perform Find button (or by pressing the
Enter key in Find mode).
• In Windows, the menu item name for Close and the shortcut, Ctrl+F4, cannot be modified in
the Windows System Menu of the document window. The Close behavior will change if the
action for the Close Menu item is altered in the Edit Custom Menu dialog box.
• You cannot modify the names for Browse, Find, Layout, and Preview in the Mode pop-up
menu. The actions for Browse, Find, Layout, and Preview can be modified and will be
activated when the Mode pop-up menu is changed.
Related topics
Documenting developer solutions (FileMaker Pro Advanced)