i am returning to fmp after a couple years. i have totaly lost my way ... i had once created a portal that i could use to monitor people in a self study classroom as they checked in and out there name would be added to the portal what pc they were asigned to and the time they checked in . i think i had a drop down list based on the number of pc's in the room. when there record was retreived from the search was able to asign a pc# then it would time stamp and add to portal bottom of record screen when they checked out could click button on there row in portal to time stamp and remove from portal... i cannot remember how to get started with this again ... please help ....

thanks cb

Starting suggestion: if you still have the database, upon it up and go to the layout which contains the portal. Go into layout mode. In this mode, you can see the names of the fields that you used in the portal. This should tell you at least which table provided the fields that you used for that portal. Then try, using a new file, to reproduce what you have in the old file.

HTH

Frank