Level: Intermediate, Version: FM 12 or later

Graph Management + Conditional Icons

Recently I received a dual-technique FileMaker 12 demo from Eden Morris. Here’s what he had to say about technique #1:

In the Relationships Graph I show the use of colored labels to indicate where record creation, cascade deletes, and sorted relationships are enabled. Looking at the graph it easily shows that I can create customers from a company table but that they don’t cascade delete, you can create invoices and invoice lines from a project and the invoices and their lines cascade delete, and that the invoice lines are sorted.

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It’s an elegant way to display this info (but for some reason, it makes me crave jelly beans).

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