A Cancel Edit (Revert Record) and Save Edit (Commit Record) button also appear now. This is where we take advantage of the space, by removing the map and now showing fields and labels, to guide the user. If we were to use this layout in Find Mode as is, there is a lot of wasted real estate with the map. Clean, easy to read and follow, lots of negative space and larger type for focus. Browse Modeīelow is a screen shot of a location record. We are going to focus on this concept on the left column. I often hear “Don’t let someone think they are in Find mode and mess something up.” If you have been using FileMaker as long as I have, you know you’ve done it.
Many new clients want the data protected. This is how this whole concept got started. There is no real edit mode, it’s just browse mode, click in field and type.
Let’s separate Browse, Find, New and Edit, but only one layout to manage all of it. Let’s throw away all ideas of how we are using our design and build a new interface in FileMaker. For me, I know I can buy more coffee and because I know it debits my Amex card, I get miles as well, double win. This text is an email, no labels, but all the information is clear and to the point with no explanation. What date? So if looking at the data begs a question, then a label must be used or a creative way to show true meaning and intention. There is plenty of data that we see that is obvious to us, so let’s stop telling everyone that a name is a name or a company is a company, we know! Now being honest there are exceptions, dates are one exception. Has anyone ever looked at a business card and seen a label for Company: Company Name or Name: Joe Scarpetta. The FileMaker 13 Platform provides us 2 new tools to change how we can manage our interfaces. Both of them take up space and now with new tools there are so many ways we can use them less. They have been handled so many ways, label to the left, flush left, flush right, top, in field, you get the picture. Field boxes have their place, but not in every place, the same goes for field labels. Even this blog post is typed into a scrolling field box. and others as well, at least when the GUI started to take over. As long as I can remember databases have had labels and field boxes, and that goes back to the days of Claris Works, FileMaker 2.1.
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