Blank rows in portal?

[Jostic]

A simple question probably, but I'm stumped. I have two databases linked by an ID number field. DB A has household info, DB B has individual info. I made a portal in DB A which brings in info from DB B just fine. There may be up to 6 related records in DB B for each record in DB A; the number varies. The portal is set up now with 6 rows. That works fine, but I would like the number of rows in the portal to be variable; 6 when needed, 1 when needed, etc. Any suggestions? Right now I have to print a lot of blank rows.

[Ender]

Portals are generally used for view and entry, not so much for printing. You often can get better results by printing with a List View in the related file.

However, in cases when you know there will be a small number of portal rows, printing works okay. Just know that you will have problems printing long portals that overlap a page break. To print the portal without the extra rows, you need to turn on "Sliding" for the portal object. Select the portal, then choose Sliding/Printing from the Format menu. Then choose Sliding up based on [whatever]. You may also wish to slide the objects below it up. To do this, just select those items too and do the same Sliding option. The portal should be defined to have the most number of rows that you think it will ever need.