Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to change the layout of a portal so that it laid out across as well as down. In other words, I have a layout with a portal into another file which is related via a code. The portal shows a container (containing an image file). What I want to do more than anything is to have this in a 4x4 format rather than a 1x8 (ie, I want to be able to display the images like thumbnails on a contact sheet. Is this possible at all?

Thanks a lot

There are (at least) 2 ways to do it. I originally did this using self-relationships, using a Mod(Status(CurrentRecordNumber), n) calc.. But nevermind, because I don't do it that way anymore. It worked, but had refresh problems with images when scrolling.

Look in FileMaker 6 Examples folder at their Photo file. It uses a clever trick of going into Preview mode, with a multi-column layout, which it then copy/pastes into a global field. It not lightning fast, but that's mostly rendering the images.

Hmmmm, can't seem to find the photo file anywhere so I'm blodging something together using the self-relationship option. The only problem being that the status(currentrecordnumber) option doesn't seem to work properly (ie, it's returning figures like 129 etc. when there's only 3 records in the found set.

Hurting my head.

Thanks for your help

Is it indexed? It needs to be unstored in order to update.

Eureka! Thank you very much for your help.