Conditional data entry within existing Portal

[ruthcarlton]

I use a portal to calculate sales related to an event. The file also relates to a inventory file which through a look-up field indicates if there is inventory for a specific item.

If there is no inventory, I have a calculation which places an image in a container field under the data to indicate that no data should be put in that field, but I haven't figured out a way to prohibit data from being entered.

If I place the container on top of my fields, of course I prohibit all data entry.

I checked out DataPros.com "Visibilty" solution, which looks great, but won't work within another portal.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

[ernst]

Hi Ruth,

You could turn off "Allow Entry" in the Field Format dialog for the fields in the portal.

Second step would be to define each of those fields as button with an attached script that does check if the user may enter the field and , if yes, does a 'goto field(PortalRelation::YourField)' script step.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Ernst

[ruthcarlton]

Perfect. Thanks!