First let me say hello, I am new to this BBS.

I stepped into a FM pro driven site awhile ago. The site is somewhat of a news portal, and serves several databases on the home page.

Serving multiple databases on a single page:

The only way that I could find to serve multiple databases on a single page is to frame the different database callouts and lock the scrolling function to prevent the page structure from getting goofed.

Example of frame cell:

Remote File: http://www.site.com/FMPro?-DB=archives&-lop=and&-op=eq&Ad Type=reprint&-token=[FMP-currenttoken]&-sortfield=magazine number&-sortorder=descending&-format=ourPublication/recentArticlesHome.htm&-max=5&-intro=yes&-find

Ignore the link status of above example, it does not work. Example only

At the time I tried several different ways to present different databases on a single page, and the above work around was all I could come up with.

What I really want to do is call different databases in a single table with many cells, NOT within a frame set. Is this possible?

One thought I recently had is to build a separate database with portals to all the database fields I need to access and then call out what I need through the single database on the home page. Is this even making sense? There must be a cleaner way to accomplish this.

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Running FileMaker 4.0 with the v2 and v3 updates.

Very best regards,

Aric

Portal will be slow if more than 50 records are in portal.

For single page use Inline with whatever db should be displayed.

I am not really familiar with the "inline" command, do you have any examples you could provide. Code??

If I am understand this correctly, I can call information from a database and bring it into a single cell of a table? What I need to do is call several databases each in a separate cell of a table. Will the "inline" command make this possible?

Thanks for your assistance.

Regards,

Aric

For information on the inline action tag and all other cdml tags you need the CDML Reference db. You can hunt around FMI or you can search the CDML Forum for a link.

Get the CDML syntax database.

It goes like:

[FMP-InlineAction: -db=pr_.fp5, -RecID={field:statrecpr}, TZlastlog={field:TZ}, -edit] -[/FMP-InlineAction]

HTH