How can I make a field appear or disappear. I've seen a perfectly good example at http://www.jamesng.com/filemaker/downloads/index.shtml called "dynamic layouts" but when I re-enter everything on a new database it doesn't work. That solution was also based on FM3 soooooo anyone got a simple FM7 solution to this? I want to be able to make an arbitrary field (based on a calculation or script) appear or disappear...thanks!

Sandy

Use the portal trick: Define a portal with just one row, make it opaque (no border, no fill) and base it on a relationship, that you can toggle (ie. between a global

It doesn't have to be a global, a number or text calculation will work just as well. Plus, it's more efficient to use a calculation or global that returns the serial number when true, so that the relationship only applies to the current record and FileMaker doesn't have to calculate all the ids for every record in the file as it does with a 'constant' relationship.

ding ding ding! great...works like a champ..thanks...Sandy