Kenoli

I've been trying to do a similar thing. You can create a value list made up of the "project" field. Then under the format menu in layout mode with the "project" field selected select "field format." It will let you asign the "project" value list you have selected to the field. Select "include other item..." in that menu. This will give the user a pull down menu allowing them to choose an existing project or enter a new one. This works erratically with fields in a portal. It lets you choose an existing project, but not enter a new one. I think the problem here is that when doing this through a portal, a new record doesn't get created in the linking table. I haven't actually figure out how to deal with this. I think it will require using a script to initiate the new record. --Kenoli

Thank you so much. I wondered if it was an issue like that but didn't know what to fiddle with. Another glitch. The scroll bar showed up and seems willing to scroll down, but when I try to scroll up I get weird erracti results with the scroll box flickering and everything happening except it won't scroll back up. Is there some esoteric setting at play here? Incidentally, is Filemaker buggy. I could swear that I get different result at different times with exactly the same set of settings. I'll set a portal in a certain way or a value list in a certain way and get one result and then when I do it again, get another. I hope this is me overlooking something (though I could swear in each case after tracking myself that I haven't) and not an erratic piece of software. --Kenoli

I figured out how to do this, using a value list linked via a linking table to a table with the values I want enterred as records. I am interested in an additional refinedment. When a user chooses "other," they are allowed to add a new record (thus a new skill), but they are also able to delete existing records. I can see that this would turn into a mess. Can I constrain this so a user can only add a record. In the relationship link, I have the box checked for adding a record and the box for deleting one unchecked. Looking forward to somones insight. Thanks, --Kenoli

I can't get the scroll bar to show in a portal. When I select and unselect "show vertical scroll bar," it moves the shaded erea over to make a space for the scroll bar, but the scroll bar does not appear. There is only empty space there. It does not appear in either layout or browse mode. What in the world am I doing wrong! Please help. I've spent two hours making new layouts, opening and closing the software, changing every setting I can find. Nothing! Help, help, help. --Kenoli

This is what I want to do: Associate a record in a person table with one or more skills listed as records (each record has a single field with a skill name in it) in a skills table. Let the person enterring data select a skill and have it associated with the record in the person table record or add a skill if what they want is not there. Let subsequent users see the list of all skills including the added ones and do the same themselves. I would like a person record to be able to be associated with more than one skill. I am trying to do this using a value list associated with records in a related "skills" table. I've also tried doing this using a portal. I can't get anything to work. Please help!

It seems Safari 1.2 is the culprit. Se related post. --Kenoli

In relation to my previous post, I have discovered that so far Safari 1.2 has failed to hook up to and crashed every filemaker 5.5 file I have tried to log onto, either from my own machine of from another. Safari 1.0 works fine as does every other web browser I have tried. Does anyone else have any information related to this issue? --Kenoli

I have gone through the routine to publish Filemaker on the web with mixed results. Some people get on some don't. On one friend's computer, I am able to log onto the file on the his local computer using either http://LAN-IP:port or http://WAN-IP:port. On mine, this doesn't work. It says it can't find the server, though it finds the server fine when I use port 80. (I am using port 8081 for Filemaker). One friend is able to log onto my published Filemaker and also onto his locally published filemaker, while when I try to log onto his Filemaker remotely, his Filemaker goes into spinning disk mode and he has to force quit the software. This latter seems to mean that I am knocking on the door, but things are getting hung up somehow. Any ideas? I hate these inconsistent results. It doesn't leave much to hang onto. Are there any particular ports Filemaker likes or dislikes? I can log onto my own computer using this syntax http://LAN-IP:80 and when I try http://LAN-IP:8081 I get a server not found error. I've tried other ports with similar errors. My router is set up correctly to forward the right ports. Any Windows/MacIntosh issues I should know about? --Kenoli Version: v5.x Platform: Mac OS X Panther