Portal Auto Adjustment

[mcinfly]

Is there a way to make a portal "auto adjust" to the number of records contained in it?

I've got a report that is viewed as a list and is in one table, but displaying records, via a portal, from another table. There's an obvious problem in that when I print, if the portal only has 3 rows and there are 4 records, one record does not print.

I've discovered no obvious solution. Making the portal 20 rows deep would be a waste of paper, considering each portal generally only has 1-5 records (but occationally, there are 20!).

Does anyone have a creative way of dealing with this?

Thanks much!

[Genx]

Why don't you use a report with subsummaries instead?

A) That's what its for.

Portals aren't made for printing.

If your really desperate and can't be stuffed reading up on it, just use the wizard to create a new report layout.

~Genx

[Vaughan]

Print reports from the related table so you can use a list view.

Also look into FileMaker's Sliding/Printing feature.

[mcinfly]

Thanks, guys. I guess sometimes the most obvious solution eludes us. Sometimes the brain gets locked in a train of thought that over-complicates things. You are correct with the summary report suggestion. I don't know what I was thinking!

Much Appreciated!