tab controller + portals

[dburgessjr]

Hello

I am kinda at a stand still with this one form I am working on. Ive attached it for your visual reference.

Heres what I am trying to do:

Its a contacts page using a Tab Controlled Form to seperate contacts by groups. Then using portals to retrieve that information and display it the correct Tabbed page.

So for instance, if Company Test 1 was associated with Group 1 from the drop down menu, I would like that Company to show up only on the Group 1 Tabbed Portal. And say if Company Test 4 was associated with Group 3, I would like that Companies information to show up only on the Group 3 Tabbed Portal.

I am kinda getting some results from the 'guessing' I've been doing but not the results I am looking for.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks Kindly

testContact.zip

[CoZiMan]

There are a couple of questions to answer here, first. The tabbed interface is great to present info in different formats. Portals are great for displaying related information. You seem to be mixing the functionality.

For instance, if I wanted to show different groups of related info I might use a portal keyed on a global from a value list, all the pieces you have in place MINUS the global for the relationship key.

The tabbed interface would give me differnt views of that related data, or differently related data from the same table. In your instance maybe group in one tab, employees in another, etc.

I guess what I am saying is that you can display the groups you want without the tabbed interface.

Is that more what you are looking for?

[dburgessjr]

I kinda understand what you are saying. And maybe I was thinking to far into an idea I had.

My intension for this form that I am trying to put together is to organize all my contacts by specifics, i.e. Group 1. That way I only had to look at the contacts that pertained to that group within that one tab. The only information that will be the same to group the contacts by will be which 'group' they belong to.

So once I get this done, my new headings will be something like; Vendor, Suppliers, Personal, and Maintence. And when I associate a contact within one of those groups, I want to be able to organize and seperate it like so.

I know it can be done, I've seen it once already in an application. Now I am trying to duplicate that method of organizing.

Thank you for your time.

I appologize if this is confusing.

Edited July 2, 2006 by Guest