Active Portal?

[csuggs]

Newbie scriptor here using "FileMaker Pro 5 Bible" to learn scripting.

I have a database which has two portals, each related to a separate database. When I use "Go to Portal Row" in my script, it always go to a row in one portal. I want a script to go to a row in my second portal.

The "Bible" states that this command "enables you to move to a particular row in the active portal. If a portal isn't active, the step is applied to the first portal encountered in the layout's stacking order (that is, the front-most, highest one.)"

I can find no referrence to how one makes a portal "active" or "inactive" nor can I find any referrence to the layout "stacking order" "frontmost" or "highest"

Right now I go into layout mode and delete the first portal when I want to run the script that referrences the second portal. This can't be the way it is meant to be done.

Help please.

[jasonwood]

The stacking order they are referring to is the order that objects appear on the layout (like in a draw program)... normally it only matters when things overlap.

If you always want a particular portal on top simply select it and go to Arrange > Bring to front. This was discussed a few days ago in another thread... I'm not sure what the workaround is... maybe have two different identical layouts which the script would first switch to.

[slstrother]

Take a look at this thread Go to Portal

[LiveOak]

The answer is to use two script steps to navigate to the correct field/portal AND the correct portal row:

Go to Field(RelationshipForDesiredPortal::DesiredField)

Go to Portal Row

-bd