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.

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

Jerry

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.

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

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).

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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