VISUAL QUICKPRO GUIDE FileMaker Pro 7 Advanced FOR WINDOWS AND MACINTOSH [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Creating Web Layouts

After you suppress the IWP controls for a Web-hosted database, you use FileMaker's standard tools to arrange your layout elements. Because suppressing the IWP controls means that all default interactivity is also suppressed, you must add buttons to allow users to carry out commands.

To place buttons on a Web form

1 .In the database to be hosted, go to the layout that you'll use for the IWP interface. The Body section should contain the fields that the user will see.

2 .If there isn't a Header part, drag the Body part down to make room. Add a header by dragging the Part tool onto the layout and choosing Header in the Part Definition dialog box (Figure 17.40). Click OK.

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Drag the Header part down to make room for the buttons you'll create.

4 .In the toolbar, click the Button tool. Drag the pointer in the Header to create a button.

5 .When the Specify Button dialog box appears, choose the command for that button from the scrolling list (Figure 17.41).

The command must be a supported script step. In our example, we use Go to Record/Request/Page.

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If you want to go to a specific record or to the previous or next record in the file, specify your destination in the Options section to the right (Figure 17.42). Click OK, then type a label in the button.

7 .To create additional buttons, hold the Control (Windows) / Option (Mac) key and drag the button to duplicate it. Double-click each new button, change the command in the Specify Button dialog box, and then change the text in the layout (Figure 17.43).

8 .Add one more button to the layout. Double-click it.

9 .When the Specify Button dialog box appears, scroll down to the Records category and choose Commit Records/ Requests (Figure 17.44). In the Options section, check "Perform without dialog." Click OK.

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.In the layout, label the new button Save (Figure 17.45). When a user makes changes to a record, clicking this button will submit the changes and update the database.