I was trying to use them yesterday, which requires being able to right click on a theme in the list of themes in the Manage Themes dialog.
That is when I discovered that right clicking and using the copy from the contextual menu doesn’t put the theme in the clipboard like it used to do. MBS copy content and copy value don’t grab it either. I also tried from the Menu and shortcut keys.
I haven’t checked with 22 but this is true for version 21. I was able to do all I needed by opening the file in 20.
The file I’m working with was hosted on a FMS 19.6 but opening a local copy gave me the same results.
The right click → copy, or cmd+c both work for me in FileMaker Pro 22 for copying theme XML to clipboard. What can impact this is whether your layout has custom menus applied which alter the copy behaviour. If you’re in browse mode when accessing the manage themes dialog, then custom menus can be an impact.
The file i was using had custom menus. I opened a layout that had standard menus. It did not work. I went in layout mode it did not work. (in 21) I tried in 20 and it did work.
Then I did the same test with a sample file (contacts) that doesn't have custom menus. Same outcome.
In both cases, Theme Editor had been open in 21 (just in case the pasting was the issue). So the issue really is the copying.
I was NOT trying with [bracketed styles]. I have not upgraded to 22 yet. Do you have a copy of 21 to check if it working for you in 21 as well ? If it works I'll have to figure out why it doesn't for me.
Hi @steve_ssh in order to see if the copy was working, I needed to see what was in my clipboard. I found the easiest way to confirm that was to move a theme from one file to another. Here is what I discovered: you can copy and paste in files opened with the same FileMaker version only. So copying a theme from a file opened in 20 could not paste in a file opened in 21.
