good morning all,

i have created a layout format and want to insert a list view into a specific area of the layout. ie i need the list view to look like a portal. any help would be greatly appreciated.

The only way to insert a list view into a "specific area" of a layout IS to use a portal. Otherwise a list view is a layout type, not a object that can be placed on a layout.

-bd

To do this you need a self-relationship. The list fields DO NOT have to come from another file.Then you can drop a portal into the layout.

Rigsby

thanks LiveOak and Rigsby for your replies.

just one more ? for this one. if i use a self relationship in the file to use in a portal how do i display every record for that file. ie suppliers file with supplier id i need to create a portal showing every supplier.

I’m not sure I understand what you mean, but if you have one file and want to display all the records in that file in a portal (Like a list) then you need to use a one-to-all self relationship. This means you have to create a calculating field, for example, set it to always return “1” as its value, then create your relationship based on this field. Thus, as every record has the value “1”, every record is linked to every record. Ok?

Rigsby