Monica Blum is a FileMaker 16 Certified Developer at Skeleton Key in St. For those of you who have shied away from grouping objects in development for lack of convenience, it may be time to consider putting it back in your toolbox. Since ease and speed of development are often such high motivators for gravitating towards certain workflows and tools, I am pleased by the new flexibility of grouping objects together in development.
You can now group objects together and move them around even if you know you still have to make adjustments to the individual objects inside. This added functionality makes grouping a more diverse tool to use, assists with speed of development and makes tasks like layering and hiding more enjoyable.
In FileMaker 17, we now have the ability to select one or more objects inside of a group and make changes without affecting the other objects in a group or having to ungroup them. What’s new for Grouping Objects in FileMaker 17? Additionally, if you have formatted your group as a button, you will have to recreate your button and add back your script if you ungroup it. However, the custom object name for a group is erased when the objects are ungrouped. Additionally, I find it helpful to specifically name my groups in the layout objects window so I can distinguish which group I am working with. This could get tedious if you had many changes to make. You would first need to ungroup it, make your adjustment and regroup. The layout objects window allows you to select an object that is currently grouped and make changes to its appearance in the inspector, but you do not have the ability to adjust its size or position. Previously, you could not make an adjustment to a single object after it was in a group without selecting it from the Layout Objects window. The portal inside a group is being selected in the layout objects window, notice I can adjust its appearance but I cannot adjust its position or size in the inspector.
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