ncheneweth

heh, i realize this is not necessarily the best way to implement this, but I am curious how it could be done.

Only a few records. The actual solution I would like to apply it to is a security interface. The portal on the left list the users, the portal on the right lists permissions. The permissions portal shows all possible permissions. Then when you select a particular user, the permissions which have been assigned to them highligh in the permissions portal. Or actually not "highlight", better would be a field could change and show a graphic, like a check box or something to indicate that the user has that permission.

Its more like, on the left it shows all the library books, and on the right all library cardholders. Then when you click on a book, those cardholders who have read it will highlight. So the total items displayed in each portal remains the same when you click on a book, just the cardholders whose names are highlighted change.

Thanks for the info. Although I didn't find anything on these links that was like what I was trying to describe. The particular solution I want to implement would let me have two portals, displayed side-by-side. THe first would list usernames, the second would list all the possible permissions. I want to let the user click on a user name, and the the permissions which that use has will highlight. All possible permissions will still be shown, just the related ones highlighted or otherwise indicated. I am not describing this too well, but saw this in a tutorial on FileMaker Magazine. The tutorial was not about this topic, but the example on the video had this interfact. Very cool, but i can't see how it was done?

I have seen some solutions wherein you can highlight a record in a portal view and in another portal view right next to it all the related records highlight. So, rather a portal selection filtering to show only related records, it continues to show all records but highlights the related ones. How is this done?