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Iainmck

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Looking for an idiots guide to deleting portal records. Have managed to add & edit but having problems with delete. I've read elsewhere that a button should be used with an associated "Delete portal Row[]" script however I'm having little success. Additionally when using CurrentRecID as a hidden field the parent record was being deleted so attempted to use CurrentPortalRowNumber but this gave me a 101 error.

Any help much appreciated.

Iain

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Make sure you actually Go to portal row[] or a Delete Record/Request will delete the current record and its child records.

I usually find it best to Go to Related Record[show, ID] and run an external script to Delete Record/Request from the related file. Then I know there's no possible way my parent can accidentally be deleted. I would also deselect the 'Allow deletion of portal records' in the formatting for your portal so that no one can inadvertently trash related records.

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Garry Claridge

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The only method that I've found is, as Anatoli said, by deleting the record directly from the related file. I've had to do this by creating a Calculated field which outputs the RecID of the related record.

It is a bit of a pain to have to do it this way. Wish there were a better way!

Good Luck.

Garry

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IrongateMachine

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Garry,

Could you please explain your method in a little more detail with some sample code? I understand the concept, but am unsure how to implement it.

I'm starting to work with portals via CDML and was looking to be able to delete and/or edit certain rows of any portal. I already figured the adding a row part smile.gif

Any help with deleting and/or editing portal rows, is much appreciated. Thanks!

-Justin

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Garry Claridge

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I create a Calculated field in the related file which returns the RecID, e.g.???

Status(CurrentRecordID)

This field is placed in the Portal, of the parent, on the Layout used for the Web.

I then create a Form in my editing page which will be used for deleting related records (Portal Rows):

<form name="rmvrowfm" action='/FMPro' method='post' target='quote'>

<input type="hidden" name="-db" value="quote_line_items.fp5">

<input type="hidden" name="-lay" value="web">

<input type="hidden" name="-format" value="editreturn.html">

<input type="hidden" name="-recid" value="">

<input type="hidden" name="-delete">

</form>

Within the portal display (line-items) on the page I have a "Remove" link at the end of each row:

<a href="Javascript:rmvrow('[FMP-Field:quote_rel::rec_id]');">Remove</a>

This link calls a Javascript function declared in the <head> of the page:

function rmvrow(rmvrecid)

{

if (confirm("Remove Item?")) {

document.rmvrowfm.elements["-recid"].value = rmvrecid ;

document.rmvrowfm.submit() ; } ;

}

Hope this helps.

Garry

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