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Customize menus by executing your scripts, renaming, adding, or deleting menu items or replacing entire menus with your custom choices for a completely customized solution. Your customized menu behavior will also affect toolbar icons, context menus, window options, keyboard shortcuts, and the Mode menus.
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Make your layouts more informative and intuitive by adding text-based or calculated Tooltips to fields or layout objects. Tooltips can include static text or calculated results to provide more insights into your data or to temporarily provide information that you don't want permanently displayed on your layout.
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Build or modify databases faster by importing multiple tables at once or by using copy/paste to move fields, tables, scripts, and script steps in or across files.
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Pinpoint problem areas as you step through scripts in a script debugger. You can even temporarily disable scripts to test portions of a script.
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Keep an eye on current field values, variables, or expressions with the Data Viewer. This is particularly useful when debugging scripts or to test calculation formulas without modifying the database schema.
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Create standalone runtime solutions that do not require the FileMaker Pro application.
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Create a kiosk-based application where all menus are hidden – great for mailing list signs up or event registrations.
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Build more robust calculations and extend database capabilities with Custom Functions and the External Function Plug-in API.
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Generate a report that provides comprehensive information on your database schema and options, like fields, tables, Custom Menus, and more with the Database Design Report. It's invaluable as a troubleshooting tool by locating missing fields, broken relationships, problem calculations, and more.
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Use the file maintenance tools to maximize performance and to compact and recover unused space.
