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fmMenu – Organize and Manage the layouts within your FileMaker Solution by Ivica Sopkic – FileMaker Today
Here this weeks featured developer tool… fmMenu…Check out this great new FileMaker tool to organize and manage the layouts within your FileMaker solution from Ivica Sopkic.
Purpose:
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This is a great little utility tool to help organize and manage the layouts within a solution. -
To create records of the layouts in the solution and allow the developer a simple tool for finding and managing the layouts. -
By using global variables for the layout titles, you can change the name of the layout without having to actually/physically change the name of the layout. -
Can be used with a value list to move between layouts
Tables:
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Menu -
Layout -
Virtual Value List (Optional)
Custom Functions:
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zPrependWithByteOrderMarks ( used for controlled value list sort order ) -
zLayout ( simple sql query for getting the layout name )
Included by not required:
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Dynamic Records Toolbox (Modular Scripts)