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Re: Naming Tabs For Relationships
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Dan Kelly <[log in to unmask]>
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FileMaker Pro Discussions <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 3 Aug 2012 10:40:20 -0400
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I didn't see an example file

 

Best Regards,

Dan Kelly

Yachtlink Engineering Inc.

1 954 663 1630

 

From: FileMaker Pro Discussions [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Dan Kelly
Sent: August 03, 2012 10:37
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Subject: Re: Naming Tabs For Relationships

 

Can anyone help me with this? I am wondering if it is even possible, I would
like to come up with a way to let the user change the names of the tabs,
when the user clicks on the tab then what shows in the portal within that
tab will be the related records, for instance you are looking at an
equipment record, you click on one tab to see manuals, another to see
drawings, another to see spec sheets etc.

 

Best Regards,

Dan Kelly

Yachtlink Engineering Inc.

1 954 663 1630

 

From: FileMaker Pro Discussions [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Richard S. Russell
Sent: August 02, 2012 14:40
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Naming Tabs For Relationships

 

 

On 2012 Aug 2, at 8:52, Dan Kelly wrote:

 

How is the question, to have a user select the names of the tabs as he
enters data and have that name be part of the relationship

 

 

Well, it's your responsibility as the developer to set it up to make it easy
for them to do this. For example, YOU are responsible for determining what
fields they'll be able to filter by, and to provide them with the means to
specify them easily:

 



 

And YOU have to provide them with the ability to quickly specify a valid
value to search for in that field:

 



 

Note that the "Specify Value" pick list is dynamic. As your users add values
to ANY of the searchable fields, the values automatically get added to the
pick list.

 

If you poke around under the covers of the example file I sent you, you'll
see how I went about doing this. 

 

 

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