Display help text throughout a solution.

Provide the user with a popup to select a record for related record creation.

Display additional button choices that don’t fit on a layout.

Display container data in a larger format.Here are just a few ideas of how we might use this new layout object: What’s more, Popover Buttons can be used across the FileMaker platform: they work in FileMaker Pro client, FileMaker Go, and through a browser using Web Direct. This design pattern is seen frequently in the software, web, and mobile design worlds these days, and we are glad that FileMaker is keeping up by providing a simple tool to create this effect.

A Popover Button is a new layout object that creates a pop up within which you can place layout objects. Well, now that rather kludgy technique has been rendered mostly obsolete with Popover Buttons. You may recall some months ago I wrote about pros and cons (mostly con) of using tab panels to hide and display pop-up content to assist in data entry and display. Building on the new design space innovations created in FileMaker 12 and a continued focus on database tools for mobile, FileMaker 13 offers a new layout object dubbed the “Popover Button”.

FileMaker 13 brings with it many new innovative features.

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