I have created an application which contains a portal on a particular screen. The portal contains a large number of records and it would be helpful to be able to search the portal to find a particular record, make some changes and then return to the original portal showing all of the data.

Any suggestions as to how this could be done.

Thanks in advance for any help.

From FM Help:

You can enter find criteria in related fields that are displayed in a portal or directly on a layout.

To find data in related fields:

1. Start a find request. For more information, see Making a find request.

2. Enter the find criteria you want.

When you perform a find in a related field, FileMaker Pro displays all the records that have a related record matching the criteria you enter. For example, in an invoice file that is displaying line items as related records in a portal, you could find all invoices listing a computer by typing Computer in the Item field in the portal.

You can also omit related records. For more information, see Finding records except those matching criteria.

3. Click Find in the status area, or choose Requests menu > Perform Find.

Thanks for the help but I think I could not have made my question clear.

What I am trying to do is to limit the number of rows being displayed in the Portal to only those containing certain things.

Regards

Richard Hurley

In that case, you can use the Relationships Graph to construct what you need.