How do I control whether the menubar (s) are displayed in FileMaker?
Running the Show/Hide Menubar script step on Windows will allow you to control whether the menubar (s) are displayed in your FileMaker solution (s). Below is an example of a solution where one window is displaying the menubars (Contacts) and another window is not (Contacts-2).
How do I run a script in FileMaker?
Open the Script Workspace using the CTRL+SHIFT+S keyboard shortcut While still in the Script Workspace, highlight your saved script and click RUN You may want to design your FileMaker Windows solutions to ensure that menubars are displayed or hidden as expected.
What are themes and styles in FileMaker?
You can also utilize Themes and Styles with current versions of FileMaker, allowing you to easily change the look and feel of your standardized navigation in all layouts that use the same theme. All layouts that use a common Theme will reflect updates across the entire file when you update the Theme.
How do I change the Order of my navigation in FileMaker?
That also means it is easy to change your navigation by simply rearranging the order of layouts. The next time you run the “Load Nav” script, or just close and open the file again, your FileMaker navigation will update through your entire solution.
Options
Lock prevents the state of the menu bar from being changed (FileMaker Go only).
Notes
This script step is not supported in macOS or when the active window is a card, and returns an error code. The code can be captured with the Get (LastError) function.
Example 1
If the Guest account is logged in, goes to the Invoices layout and hides the menu bar and status toolbar.
