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17. Introducing Layouts

Mark Conway Munro1  
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Lewisburg, PA, USA
 
A layout is a developer-designed graphical template that defines how records, fields, and objects will be rendered to produce an interactive experience. Each database window displays one layout at a time. The layout active at a given moment in time is referred to literally as the current layout. When a database opens, this is a default layout selected based on how the database is configured. It may be a selected layout in File Options (Chapter 6), one opened by a Script Trigger (Chapter 27), or the last layout that was open when the file was closed while running on a local computer. ...

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