Portal in a Portal

[H.P.]

Hi all,

I tried to put a portal in a portal but it doesn't work well. It only displays one single item in the second portal. Does anyone know if portal in a portal is supported in Filemaker?

Thanks,

Ha Pham.

[Paolo]

not in fm 6

don't know in 7, but i don't think

[CobaltSky]

Not in 7 either I'm afraid.

Relationships are hierarchical but portals are not (ie they cannot be nested).

If you need this kind of functionality, you might consider some alternative interface models. Eg a selection system where you select a row in one portal to see a second portal (elsewhere on the same layout, but not within the first portal) update to display the associated values.

There are also a few interesting tricks that can be pulled with value lists or with plug-ins (eg the Troi Text plug-in) which may or may not be appropriate depending on the application...

[H.P.]

Thx Saolo & Cobalt.

That's pretty sad because my client doesn't want pop up windows and I need to display everything on the page

I guess I will have to use the script to loop through each portal row, copy all information from the related portal into a field and display it on the portal. Crossing my fingers that this will work.

[H.P.]

Hahaaa it works!!! Now it looks like a real portal in portal

[Fenton]

There's also ValueListItems (Get(FileName), "Value list name"), with the named value list being related values. You can use the Substitute function to replace "

[H.P.]

Thx Fenton!

That's a much faster approach compare to looping through each record. But I'm too lazy to change my code now I will wait till the clients complain about the speed problem before changing it to related-value list

Regards,

H.P.

[new2fm]

Hi:

Can ypou please explain alittle further the technics you are using to see a portal inside another portal.

I have the same challenge and have spent time witout a solution

Thanks for your help.