Chapter 3
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1 You can modify privilege sets in the Edit Privileges dialog box to
control which menu items are enabled.
1 If you set Available menu commands to Editing only or Minimum,
menu items based on FileMaker commands are enabled or disabled
according to the setting. All other menu items, including items with
customized actions, are disabled. For example, if you choose
Editing only, all basic FileMaker editing commands are enabled but
all other items (including items with customized actions) are
disabled.
1 If you set Available menu commands to All, all menu items are
enabled normally. For information about access privileges, see
Help.
1 FileMaker uses shortcuts that don’t appear in the menu bar. For
example, Command-Option-Z zooms a Mac OS window. In addition,
the operating system defines shortcuts. Both types of shortcuts
override the ones you define in the Specify Shortcuts dialog box.
1 Windows and Mac OS shortcuts are different. For example, if
you use FileMaker Pro Advanced for Windows to define the
Ctrl+H shortcut, then open the file in Mac
OS, the shortcut maps to
Command-H. This conflicts with the Mac
OS shortcut to hide an
open application. The shortcut works as expected on Windows, but
on Mac
OS, the operating system shortcut overrides the custom-
defined shortcut.
1 Be sure to test custom shortcuts on both platforms. For
information about shortcuts, see the documentation provided with
your operating system.
1 Mac OS: You can assign keyboard shortcuts for applications using
the Mac
OS X Keyboard & Mouse system preference. If you define a
keyboard shortcut for a FileMaker
Pro menu in the system
preferences, it becomes the default shortcut for the menu command in
Custom Menus, including the Standard FileMaker Menus menu set.
This menu item will always be present in the menu, and users won’t
be able to change the shortcut by making changes in the custom menu
dialog boxes.
Customizing menu sets
You can create custom menu sets to include the menus you require.
You can then specify a menu set for the file and for individual layouts.
Keep the following points in mind:
1 Mac OS: If you do not include a Help menu in your menu set, the
operating system will install an empty Help menu. You cannot
remove this menu, change its position on the menu bar, or change its
title.
1 Mac OS: The FileMaker Pro menu is added after the Apple menu.
You cannot customize the Quit or Preferences menu items. You can
only customize the About FileMaker Pro and Sharing menu items.
1 Windows: The Exit menu item is added at the end of the first
unlocked (modifiable) menu. You cannot customize the Exit menu
item.
Creating and editing menu sets
You can create a new menu set or edit or duplicate an existing one.
You can also delete menu sets that your users will not need.
Important Duplicating a custom menu set creates a copy of the menu
set and references the same custom menus as the original menu set. It
does not duplicate the custom menus. If you change a menu item, you
change the menu for all menu sets in which the menu is included.
