How Does A User Go Back To The Main Screen / Dashboard / Clients

In the past, many FileMaker solutions had a button for everything. This has a large overhead in the time it takes to produce and update FileMaker layouts. For quite some time, FileMaker has offered one alternative to this in the form of custom menus. Custom menus can be created very quickly, easily customizable and can be laid out in a precise grid across the solution.

So much of InBizness still has buttons to navigate to other areas and perform actions. It also has a robust set of custom menus and that is the primary method of navigating from one record to another.

Here is a peek at the current navigation menu.

So we can add buttons to all the layouts to perform basic navigation but if you can train your users to embrace custom menus, it will save on the overall cost of migrating into InBizness.

Now there are some interesting possibilities with the recent release of FileMaker 10. The new Script Trigger feature can allow for all kinds of keyboard trigger options. I'm still researching (like most professional FileMaker developers) all the opportunities script triggers provide.