I use portals extensively in desktop solutions but I'm having problems getting a button in a portal to properly go to a related record. For example, Companies is related to Contacts via a company-link field with contact records appearing in a scrolling portal. The portal includes a button to go to related record. It does go to one of the related records and it does appear in the correct layout, but it's often not the record in the row that has been clicked.

Works flawlessly in dozens of Filemaker desktop solutions but not on the Web. I've tried every imaginable combination of Commit Record. Have checked all scripts for Web compatibility, even tried simplified scripts that simply GTRR and Submit to get a redraw. But no luck.

Very frustrating because IWP's handling of the file is otherwise excellent. Any ideas here? TIA

OK, I'm going to answer my own post . . .

What I forgot to mention originally was that the button was, in fact, a global container from a related table of globals. In regular FM7 you can use these as buttons, provided you don't alway entry into them in either browse or find mode. It gives you a handy way to "skin" your file

Hi Steve,

I'm having the same trouble you did, but cannot get past the issue using your technique.

My layout is based on a customer table and is looking at related location records. The global container field I have in the portal is based on an Admin table.

The transparent object I put over the top of the global field from the Admin table (sitting in the location portal) didn't have a border either. If it put a fill in the object, I can't see my global backgroud image, but then it does go to the correct related record. Can someone post a sample file where the overlay is completely transparent and yet the GTRR script still works?

Greg

Anyone?

Greg

Hello,

I hate to bump this one more time, but I really need help! I'd hate to have to go though and pull out all my global containers and put in regular graphics.