I am trying to display records from a portal where I only have limited vertical space (ie. not much height but plenty of width). I thought I could create 3 identical portals and place them side by side so they would look like columns.

In the Portal Setup window I select the initial row of the 2nd and 3rd portal to 9 and 17 respectively as I am displaying 8 rows in each portal.

This works fine to display records and I can easily add new related records using a script/button but I am trying to navigate using 'previous' and 'next' buttons and cannot get from one portal to another this way.

I have tried Go To Portal Row (next/previous) but this didn't work. I then tried to extract the current portal row number, add one and go to that record but this also didn't work.

Other work arounds I have tried dont help me either.

Any ideas?

What are you doing in the portal? Have you considered using a record-select technique which sequentially selects the correct record in an "edit zone" of the layout. You can walk the records this way without actually touching the portal.

If you are only displaying one field in the portals, then a simply Go to Previous Field or Go to Next Field will work better than a Go to Portal Row, as long as the fields are in consecutive Tab order.

If you have more than one field that can be entered in the portals, then the attached file gives one way to navigate between them while remaining in the current field in the other portals.

PreviousNext.zip