Edit Appointments
The Edit Window Seems Locked, How Can I Edit that Layout?
When you arrive at the Edit Appointment mini window during the creation or edit of an appointment, you’re visiting the layout during a paused script. Accordingly, you can’t enter layout more, or do much of anything, until you leave the screen / script.
So, if you want to edit this layout you have to enter layout mode from one of the other screens, like the Day layout. Run the “Show Status Area” script first so that you can see the tools in the left hand status area and then enter layout mode. Once there you can use the layout list (a little pill of a button towards the top of the status area below the “pencil” icon) to scroll to the “Mini Window Edit Appointment” layout. Once there you can edit the layout as if it were any other FileMaker Pro Layout.
How Can I Add More Tabs to the Edit Window?
Very simply. Select the tab control by clicking about 1/8 of an inch below and to the left of the lower right edge of the rightmost tab. You’ll know you have it selected when all 4 corners of the tab control get their handlebars. Then select “Unlock” from FileMaker’s arrange menu. At this point double clicking in the same place will bring up the Tab Control Setup window where you can create additional tabs or remove / rename the existing ones.
If you’d like to make the “More” tab your default you can...
In FileMaker 8.5 edit the script “Edit Appointment { Column , Type }”. Toward the bottom you’ll find a comment about going to the default tab; simply change the object name there to be “MoreTab” or the name of whichever object you’d like to be the default tab.
In FileMaker 9x the default tab is specified in the Tab Control Setup window when you edit the tab; select “More” there.
