Portal with filter?

[BertBoye]

I have 2 db:

1. Products with dates for different products (hotel room) two layouts list view and form view.

2. Price file have prices for different dates, different years, different rooms.

Products and prices are related with a field called room_prices and the same in price bd like this;

Room&

[Chuck]

You need to create a different relationship, one that will show all of the records if the user hasn't specified anything to filter by but show only matching records when the user has entered a date.

In the local file, create a field called gDateEntry. This field will either be empty or hold the date the user is interested in.

Create a calc field called DateNumber that is simply set to gDateEntry. Give this calc a number result. This is to convert the date entry into its equivelant number value.

Create another field in the local file called DateFilter that has a text result. Set the calculation for this field to the following:

Case(

  IsEmpty( gDate ),

  room_prices & "1",

  room_prices & DateNumber

)

If the user hasn't entered anything into the gDate field, then DateFilter will have a value of 1. Otherwise it will have the numerical equivelant of the date as stored by FileMaker. Dates are just numbers in FileMaker, which is why we can convert it to a number and insert it into a text calc.

Now, in the child file, create a similar DateNumber field which is a calculation with a number result. Set its calculation to PriceDate or whatever your date field for your price database is called.

Create a DateFilter field as a calculation with a text result set to the following:

room_prices & "1