User manual

Customizing layouts 7-9
2. In the Set Tab Order dialog box, specify the options you want to
use:
3. Click OK.
If there are some fields on the layout that you have not included in
the tab order, you see a dialog box that asks if you want to make those
fields available when tabbing. If you do not want to include them,
click Omit; otherwise, click Add (they will be added at the end of the
tab order).
Keep these points in mind:
1 A blank arrow indicates a field that is omitted from the tab order.
1 For multiple repeating fields, you can specify whether to tab
through the first repetition of each different field first (the default) or
down within the same field first.
1 To set the tab order to tab through the first repetition of each
different repeating field, click in the upper-left field. The arrow
blinks as you select the order to tab through the first repetitions of
the other fields. Click the upper-left field again and FileMaker Pro
completes the tab order for the remaining repetitions of the
repeating fields using the same pattern you used.
1 To set the tab order to first include all of the (visible) repetitions
of the first repeating field, double-click the first occurrence of the
repeating field. FileMaker Pro fills in the numbers for all the
repetitions. Then, double-click the first occurrence of the next
repeating field to get the next series of tab-order numbers, and so on.
1 Summary fields can’t be included in the tab order. Calculation
fields can be included in the tab order, but you can’t tab into them in
Browse mode (only in Find mode). Fields that are formatted to
prevent entry can’t be tabbed into in Browse mode or Find mode.
1 Setting a tab order has no effect on data entry when you are
working with data published on the Web using the FileMaker Pro
Web Companion. For more information about setting up layouts for
web publishing, see “Setting up browser views” on page 14-10.
To Do this
Reorder the tab order
for individual fields
Select Edit tab order. Click the field whose order you
want to change and type a new number for the arrow.
The number you replace is swapped with the number
you type.
Define a new tab order
for all fields
Select Create new tab order and click the fields in the
new order. FileMaker Pro inserts numbers in that order
in the arrows.
Omit fields from the
tab order
As you set a new tab order, don’t click the fields you
want to omit. For fields that already display a number,
select the number and press Backspace or Delete.
Restore the default tab
order
Click Revert to Default.
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Horizontal tab order for repeating fields (left to right)
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Vertical tab order (top to bottom down each field)
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Third
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