Conditional Formatting

[facabo]

Hi,

Does FMTouch support conditional formatting? If not is there a way to do that?

Thanks for the help.

Faustino

[rrenfrow]

Not that I know of for both questions.

Raylene

[TheTominator]

There may be a workaround depending on what you are trying to format.  You can do things the way we had to do it before conditional formatting existed in FileMaker.

If you are altering the text color, text style, etc, you can create new calculated fields for each color/style you want to display.
Make your calculation give "" when the condition is not met and the correct (unformatted) text otherwise.

Put the each of the calculated field on the layout where you want the conditional formatting to appear.  Format its color/style when you put it on the layout.

Stack these fields as necessary when you want to display the same text differently in different situations.  If you configure the calculations correctly, only one will be non-empty at a time.


For altering the background color you may be able to use a calculation that conditionally returns a container value (from a global) that contains an image for your colored background.

[facabo]

Can you provide an example of the calculation?

Thanks

[wbullard]

I tried using calc fields to simulate conditional formatting. It worked fine in FMP but it didn't work in FMTouch.