Display records horizontally in a portal?

[fful]

Is there any way to show multiple records horizontally in a portal, instead of vertically?

I have two tables: one of music SCORES, and one of the individual PAGES in each score.

Each score has a different number of pages, 2-10.

I have thumbnail images of each page in a container field in the PAGES table.

This is related to the SCORES table through the unique score number, which both tables share.

The PAGES thumbnail container field is displayed in a portal in the SCORES table.

Thus, each record in the SCORES table displays only the corresponding pages in the score.

However, these are displayed vertically. It would be much more elegant to display the mulitple thumbnails horizontally. Then more records could be seen at one time in "View as List"

Is there any way to do it?

[Fenton]

Look at the Portal dialog. There is a new box, Initial row, as well the old one, Number of rows. So you can effectively set up multiple portals any way want.

[fful]

Yes, I earlier saw your post 152526 which helped me figure out the "trick". Basically, I now have one portal for each related thumbnail, 10 portals ACROSS, with each one showing the next "inital row", and only showing 1 number of rows. So I can have up to 10 thumnails of the pages in the score.

Thanks so much for the prompt response. Used to develop in FM a lot, but that was at version 3!

Frank

[fful]

Of course, it would be nice if FM allowed you to display portal records horizontally, as you can with repeating fields, which are not as "powerful". This would make layouts easier to create, and the database probably more efficient when web publishing.

Frank