Simple Portal Row Numbering?

[stanley]

Hi all:

I had thought this would be very simple, but once I realized I'd never done it before, I just ran into a mental wall. Instead of beating my head against that wall, I've moved on to the next problem and am posting the question here:

I just want each row in a portal to show an item number, starting from 1 and going to how ever many rows are currently being shown in the portal. This is a formatting issue requested by the client, like this:

1. (Item description, Item price)

2. (Item description, Item price)

3. (Item description, Item price)

etc., but if there's only 3 items showing in a six-row portal, I want the numbers to stop at 3.

It's really simple, right? So what's the easy answer?

Thanks in advance,

-Stanley

[-Queue-]

Put @@ in the first row of your portal. It's the symbol for current record number.

[Ugo DI LUCA]

Insert Record Number symbol @@

[Ugo DI LUCA]

Quick Queue was not Quitting his keyboard

[Lee Smith]

Hi Ugo,

I guess that would be the French way of saying it, huh?

Lee

[stanley]

Man, you guys are fast. I knew it would be simple.

Thanks

-Stanley

[veganboyjosh]

is there a way to run the numbers abckwards? ie. i have a portal whose records are sorted by date, with the oldest records at the bottom of the portal and the newest ones at the top. this way i can see the most recent activity without scrolling to the bottom of the portal. i'd like to number them this way as well. any ideas?

[Ugo DI LUCA]

May be through the ValueListItems( ) function.

Create a Value List of Record_IDs involving your Portal Relationship.

Use the sorted by second value option, and pick the 'DateField'.

Now :

c_VLI = ValueListItems(Status(CurrentFileName),"IDsListSorted")

and

Patterncount(c_VLI,"

[Anthony Talo]

Thanks! That solved one of my long-running problems. But where can I find a list of those symbols? It's more that the "Find" symbols isn't it?!?

[Pek]

is there a simple way to then get the @@ to appear on a report from the data in the portal?

Ric