Creating and Deploying Custom Menus in FileMaker Pro
Join us on Tuesday, April 20th, 2010, and learn to harness the power of Custom Menus with world-renowned FileMaker trainer, Jerry Robin!
Custom Menus allow us to modify and enhance FileMaker’s menus, making the menus more meaningful and appropriate for different users.
Custom Menus can:
- Hide certain commands from users
- Give users easier access to commands
- Include a script as a command in any menu
- Make virtually unlimited functionality available to users
- Make your database look more like a custom application and less like “FileMaker”
- Reduce training time and minimize tech support needs
However, the concepts behind creating Custom Menus–and the series of dialog boxes for creating them–can be rather overwhelming at first. Jerry will take you step-by-step through the process so that it all becomes crystal-clear.
(NOTE: He will be demonstrating the new, improved Custom Menus interface for FileMaker Pro 11, which is considerably less intimidating than previous versions!)
Topics include:
- Terminology: Menu Sets, Menus and Menu Items.
- Commands, Submenus and Separators.
- How to dynamically override the title of a menu or menu item based on the current context.
- Understanding the difference between Commands and Behaviors in Menu Items, opening doors to powerful interface tools, like preventing users from activating the Close box.
- Installing your Menu Sets and determining how they appear.
- Determining which Menu Set is active.
- Common errors and gotchas that come with Custom Menus (such as locking users out accidentally).
About Jerry Robin
The owner of FMPTraining.com, Jerry Robin is an experienced consultant, trainer and developer of custom FileMaker Pro databases. Jerry has been a presenter at eight FileMaker Developer Conferences since 1997, and was ranked among the top-rated speakers from 2000 to 2008. A FileMaker 7, 8, 9 and 10 Certified Developer, Jerry was a Technical Editor for “FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual,” wrote and presented a highly praised FileMaker Pro 7 CD training series in 2004, and won the FileMaker Millionaire prize at the 2001 DevCon in Orlando.
When he’s not doing FileMaker, Jerry performs standup comedy and is also the throwing half of an award-winning competitive Dog Frisbee team (with his Australian Shepherd, Dakota).
