You can then rotate it again to have it correctly oriented. If you copy/paste something simple like a label inside the panel, you’ll note it immediately rotates 90 degrees also to be in the same orientation as the panel. However actually putting anything useful inside the panel becomes a nightmare. It works in the sense that you can click the dots to navigate the panels and you can script moving between panels. Voilà! Now we’re cooking! But does it work? Well yes and no. The rotation attribute can be seen above, we just modify it from 0 to 900 in order to rotate 90 degrees. Unfortunately not! The rotate option is not supported for slide panels in FileMaker Pro - dang! But wait! All layout objects are just somes FileMaker XML and CSS underneath it all, so what if I could just modify that XML to add my own rotation? To do this, I used myFMButler Clip Manager to retrieve and modify the XML: It already has swipe gesture, so surely there is a way to ‘flip it on its side’, right? When this challenge initially arose my first thought was to just use a sliding panel again. In our horizontal menus, left and right swiping can be utilised through a panel control, but how do we achieve swipe down (or up for that matter)? First attempt using a sliding panel However one key element is missing from this equation which provides a much more intuitive and native iOS feel to this menu - the ability to swipe-down on the screen with your finger in order to dismiss the menu. In FileMaker Go you can achieve this effect through using the ‘Slide in from Bottom’ layout transition - brilliant! The user can then press a close button on the menu to reverse the process through using a ‘Slide out to Bottom’ transition effect, returning the user to their original layout. The sliding panel layout object gives us the power to use left/right swipe gesturing to close (or open) the menu.īut what about vertical menus? That being a menu that slides up from the bottom of screen. This is achieved either through using a slide panel object, or through layout transition effects available in FileMaker Go (if you wish to have your menu as a separate layout). These menus were horizontal in that they would slide in from either the left or right side of screen. In our previous article, we built beautiful drawer menus for desktop and iOS.