Portals

I am counting the records that are displayed in a portal and want the results to be displayed in a field automatically Author is the field that I am using to count portal records I have a Calculation field with the calculation "Count(portal::Author)" it works fine...BUT when there are no records in the portal it won't display the 0 in the calculation field...I need it to display the 0... THANKS

Hello All I'm jumping head first into the world of networking a FM solution which relies heavily on portals, and I tested it out last night. The disturbing fact I discovered is that the dialog box warning the user that someone else is modifying the record pops up for numerous portal rows, no matter what record the first user is in. It's almost like they are in many records because of the portal, which makes sense in a way but is pretty annoying. I thought that portals were like windows, rather than doors. I don't have any field in the portal with entry capability, and use it only as a way to go to the related record (via button) for data entry. What I want is for …

Hi all, I have recently set-up a layout where I have a portal that filters out only portal rows that have a purchase order number or a purchase order number recieved value. This causes me to have a relationship to filter out this data. This is fine and it works great. Now I would like to fix those portals. I have successfully done that as well. But by doing that you need another relationship. My question is can you set-up a portal to have 2 relationships? I would like to have fixed and filtered portals. If anybody has any ideas please help! I'm open to changing my design as well. Thank you to everyone. ------------------ Ryan [email protected]

Does anybody know how to fix portals? I need to have a scroll bar cuz there are multiple records, but I don't want it to go back to the first portal row after I click outside the portal. If I'm looking at the 50th portal row then I want it to stay there. Any ideas??? Thanks in advance. ------------------ Ryan [email protected]