Repeating fields, but without repeating information?

[ddr90036]

HELP!!

I am designing a meal planner for myself and friends. I have designed a basic layout for Food, Calories, Protein, Carbs, etc. but I don't want to define a field for each occurence of these trhoughout the day. In other words, there could be as many as 100 for each Food, Calories, etc. if I were to do so and I would like to group things into meals 1-6 for each day with puling values from a relational list I have desgined. Is a portal my solution or is there another type of function I should use? I want to repeat the fields, but not the information

[Kurt Knippel]

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You should definately use a relationship via a portal. Now this might be a relationship into the same database, depending upon the nature of your data. DO NOT USE repeating fields.

[ddr90036]

Thanks for the advice, but here's the current problem with the revise relational portals - I've created a relaionship, but I get the same values in all 10 portals I've created and the related calculations of calories, protein, etc. are all 0 (zero) except the first one. I have the book, "Using FileMaker Pro" by Coulombre & Price, but I don't see the solution in there. Any suggestions?

[Vaughan]

When all values in the portal are the same, it usually means that you haven't put a related field into the portal, or the relationship for the field is different to the one used for the portal.