Alternative to a Portal

[Sack]

I have a situation where I need to print a lunch menu. Each item has a description of varying length, so I need to 'slide' additional descriptions up so there's not big gaps in the list. Sliding doesn't seem to work with portal contents. If I make the text box (and first row of the portal) large, the size doesn't decrease for shorter descriptions.

I thought maybe I could use "<<fieldname>>" on the page and slide them which does work, but I don't know how to set this to show fields from multiple records... e.g. <<fieldname_record1>>, <<fieldname_record2>>.... I'm not sure if there's such a thing or someone knows how to slide the contents of a Portal.

Thanks

(Using Filemaker 7 Dev, Mac OS X)

[Ender]

Welcome Sack,

Same answer as the other thread, sliding doesn't always work well with portals. It's better to use a list layout in the related file, using sub-summary parts.