Estimated Time To Read This: 4 – 6 minutes       Back in the “day”, portals used to have one fill colour. Since FileMaker Pro 6 we’ve been able to alternate the colour of the portal rows making them easier to read. On a recent project I utilized the alternating colours of a portal with conditional formatting of a text field to produce buttons that set a field with the appropriate values. This combined a radio button’s exclusivity with a checkbox’s ability to easily clear a value. ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 4 – 6 minutes       It’s common among systems that are used by many people of varying security levels, to have buttons on your layouts that some users can execute and others can’t. If you’re designing for such a system, then you’ll probably want to provide the end-users of your system with some kind of visual feedback that will let them know whether or not they can perform those actions. There are various ways of tackling this task, but all of them revolve around defining a ... Read More