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A pop-up menu is understood to be FileMakerdatabases have a field formatting that can be used to open a drop-down menu with value defaults when the user selects the field. The values can be taken from any value list. In contrast to the drop-down list, no values can be entered manually in a field in a drop-down menu. However, a function can be activated with which individual values can also be entered.
To add a pop-up menu to a field, switch to layout mode in FileMaker and click on the desired field. In the inspector (View > Inspector), you can now select a field in the [Field] of the register [Data] to define all display settings for the selected field:
Show data from: (Field to be displayed)
Control style (Form in which the field is to be displayed. By default, a field is displayed as an edit field. Other possible options: Drop-down list, drop-down menu, checkboxes, radio buttons, drop-down calendar)
Allow other values to be entered
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his function adds an additional entry to the value list. [Other...] is added. After selecting this entry, a dialog for entering individual values appears.
Allow editing of the value list (for static value lists, you can specify whether the user can edit the value list or not. If yes, a new item appears in the pop-up menu [Edit...]which can be used to open a dialog for editing the value list)
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