Creating relationship for printing portal records

[Christopher Feyrer]

I've read in the forums that you are not to print portals because they cause inherent problems with the printout.

Right now I am in the process of creating a report with a one-to-many relationship in several fields, and I need the "manys" printed for each "one" record. I cannot access these via a portal for the printout layout.

Can someone give me an example of the proper way to access portal fields for printing? I've been told to use a calculation to copy the information to a text field and then access that text field -- please if someone could share an example of this.

Thanks.

Chris

[BobWeaver]

The method generally used is to print from the related file, and any information that needs to be included from the parent file can be accessed by a reverse relationship back to that file. The user does not need to know that printing is being done from the related file. You just have a script in the parent file that calls a print script in the related file to do the printing.