Portal rows limitation

[jschwarz]

Is there any way to get around the limitation on the number of rows in a portal? I have a portal that lists a number of events for a fund-raising program for a non-profit, and they think they eventually may have many events. Do I need to artificially limit the number of events (only show the last 25 or so), or is there some way to dynamically expand the size of the portal?

I think they wouldn't mind it being essentially infinitely long if they could scroll through it all.

Thanks.

[QuinTech]

Hi, jschwarz. In the portal properties, select the option for Show Scroll Bar.

Jerry

[jschwarz]

I do have the scroll bar on, but I'm still limited on the total number of records I have... right now, the most it will let me show is 35. If I try more than that, it says it will exceed the maximum size of a layout.

Perhaps I'm not experiencing the benefit of the scrollbars... I can't see where the come into effect. But there are two issues - 1, how do I show more than 35 records, and 2, which is less important, how can I display all those? I'm thinking that the scrollbars can help with the second problem, but I still can't solve the first.

[-Queue-]

Is setting the body part of your layout long enough to hold the maximum number of portal rows an option?

[jschwarz]

I've made the layout as big as possible, which seems to be about 111 inches high. At that height, I have room for 36 rows now. I guess I'm looking for a way to show more rows than that (like 100), but have them scroll within a smaller physical area (like an iframe, if any of you are familiar with that html feature).

[-Queue-]

The scrollbar should give you that capability. You can have 100 related records and it will display 36 at a time as you scroll down the list.

[jschwarz]

Ok, that's what I thought, but I can't get it to work. If I have "show vertical scroll bar" checked, and show 3 records, starting from record 1, and there are 4 records, I can only see the first three. There's no scroll bar. I made sure that the portal was wide enough to contain a scrollbar, but I still don't see one. Any thoughts?

[QuinTech]

Can you post a screenshot? Typically, someone would post an example file, but you'll notice that both -Queue- and i are on earlier versions than you, so that wouldn't help (unless a v7 user is lurking out there...)

J

[jschwarz]

Since I have two shots, and they're a bit large, I'll link them instead of attaching them.

Layout View

Browse View

(there are 4 records total)

Let me know if that helps.

[-Queue-]

Do you have field borders turned on?

I'm on Dev 7, also. But I mainly use 5.5. I only use 7 when someone has a question about it.

[-Queue-]

Select the portal in layout mode, ctrl-left click (I believe that's correct for Mac) and change the Pen Color to black and the Pen Width to at least Hairline.

[jschwarz]

Aha! That worked, thanks so much. It was there all the time, just invisible... how frustrating.