Filemaker Layout Xml

Use this skill whenever the user wants to work with FileMaker layout XML. This includes generating paste-ready layout object XML (fmxmlsnippet type LayoutObjectList) from descriptions, reviewing layout XML for silent paste-handler failures, or analysing Save as XML layout exports. Trigger any time the user mentions FileMaker layouts, layout objects, fields, portals, tab controls, popovers, button bars, web viewers, anchoring or autosizing, or LayoutObjectList. Always perform the theme pre-flight before generating, and set object anchoring deliberately whenever an object must resize with the wi

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add andykear/FileMaker-XMLsnippet-Layout-Claude-Skill --skill filemaker-layout-xml

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andykear/FileMaker-XMLsnippet-Layout-Claude-Skill.git /tmp/FileMaker-XMLsnippet-Layout-Claude-Skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/FileMaker-XMLsnippet-Layout-Claude-Skill/. ~/.claude/skills/filemaker-layout-xml

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# FileMaker Layout XML Skill

Created by Andrew Kear of Clockwork Creative Technology and shared openly with the FileMaker/Claris community under CC BY 4.0. Attribution required on any reuse, adaptation or redistribution, including any derived or excerpted work.

Deterministic generation and analysis of `fmxmlsnippet type="LayoutObjectList"`, FileMaker's Layout mode clipboard format. Full specification in `references/filemaker_layout_xml_rules.md`.

Most rules below concern silent failures: the XML pastes without error and is wrong on screen or in behaviour, and no structural audit catches it.

## Pre-flight: theme identification (mandatory)

Every object must carry the target layout's `<ThemeName>` verbatim. The wrong identifier causes text doubling and CSS class names rendering as visible text, or fails silently: FM substitutes the destination theme and rebuilds the object from `FullCSS`, discarding `LocalCSS` and leaving `CustomStyles` unbound (§25.3).

1. If the user supplied a clipboard export, extract it: `grep -m1 "ThemeName" file.xml`. A **Save as XML export has no `<ThemeName>`** — read the target layout's `<LayoutThemeReference name="...">` instead, matching the `<Layout>` element by name, since an export holds every layout in the file (§0).
2. If not, ask before generating. The user gets it by copying any object from the target layout and pasting into a text editor.
3. Never default to `com.filemaker.theme.apex_blue`. It is a placeholder in the examples only.

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: filemaker-layout-xml
Repository: andykear/FileMaker-XMLsnippet-Layout-Claude-Skill
License: CC-BY-4.0
Repo updated: 3 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Filemaker Layout Xml skill do?

How do I install the Filemaker Layout Xml skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add andykear/FileMaker-XMLsnippet-Layout-Claude-Skill --skill filemaker-layout-xml. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Filemaker Layout Xml popular?

It lives in andykear/FileMaker-XMLsnippet-Layout-Claude-Skill, which has 15 GitHub stars and 0 forks.

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