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Customizing files with FileMaker Pro Advanced
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• Buttons on toolbars are linked to menu items. If you customize a menu item that has a
toolbar button, you also customize the button, its behavior, and its tooltip. For example, the
New Record button is linked to the New Record menu item. If you customize the New
Record menu item by renaming it to New Contact and specifying a script be performed, the
toolbar button will perform the custom New Contact script and the tooltip for the button will
display New Contact.
• 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.
• FileMaker Pro Advanced updates menus and menu items when a menu set change is
requested either through switching modes, windows, or layouts, or by performing a script
that accomplishes a similar result. Menu and menu item titles based on field contents or
functions only update when menu sets change.
• If you enter the same keyboard shortcut or access key (Windows) for two different menu
items, FileMaker Pro locates and issues the first instance of the command as follows:
• Keyboard shortcuts: right to left and top to bottom
• Access keys (Windows): left to right and top to bottom
• If you want an ampersand (&) to appear as part of a menu or menu item name, you must
type the ampersand twice. For example, if you want a menu name to appear as Records &
Reports, enter the title as
Records && Reports.
• Privilege set considerations
• You can modify privilege sets in the Edit Privilege Set dialog box to control which menu
items are enabled. See Creating and managing privilege sets.
• If you set Available menu commands to Editing only or Minimum, menu items based
on FileMaker commands are enabled or disabled according to the setting. All other
menu items, including items with customized actions, are disabled. For example, if you
choose Editing only, all basic FileMaker editing commands are enabled but all other
items (including items with customized actions) are disabled.
• If you set Available menu commands to All, all menu items are enabled normally.
• Keyboard shortcut considerations
• FileMaker uses keyboard shortcuts that don’t appear in the menu bar. For example,
Command-Option-Z zooms an OS
X window. In addition, the operating system defines
shortcuts. Both types of shortcuts override the ones you define in the Specify
Shortcuts
dialog box.
• Windows and OS X keyboard shortcuts are different. For example, if you use
FileMaker
Pro Advanced for Windows to define the Ctrl+H shortcut, then open the file in
OS
X, the shortcut maps to Command-H. This conflicts with the OS X shortcut to hide
an open application. The shortcut works as expected on Windows, but on OS
X, the
operating system shortcut overrides the custom-defined shortcut.
• Be sure to test custom keyboard shortcuts on both platforms. For information about
shortcuts, see the documentation provided with your operating system.
• OS X: Users can assign keyboard shortcuts for installed applications using the
Keyboard system preference. These shortcuts override any standard FileMaker
Pro
menu shortcuts or custom menu shortcuts when users open a solution file on that
computer. System preference shortcuts also become the default shortcut for any
custom menus or custom menu items created while the solution is running on that