Adding fields on tabs without overlapping

[frida]

Please help me,

I am a rockie when it comes to filemaker, but have been playing around this weekend and finally started to created my database. I'm stuck now though as I want to work with three tabswhere fill in information to make things easier for the users. When I add fields on a different tab they keep on overlapping when I preview. I want different fields in the different layers. How does it work?

Please help me so I can crack on.

Thanks

Frida

[Lee Smith]

Portals are not meant to be printed. You should print the data from the related Table or file (where the actual data is maintained).

Lee

[frida]

Thanks,

So do I need to create a portal on the individual tabs and then put the feilds in them? Gosh it is all so confusing. Basically I have created three tabs and defined all the feilds in the database.Although i have not created any portals. Not sure what a portal is...

Maybe I am a bit thick... Sorry for the stupid questions...

[cjaeger]

Lee prob. meant TABs are not meant to be printed.

Use a different Layout for Input (with tabs) and Print (without), or simply change view to table view for printing.

[Lee Smith]

Hi Frida,

I thought you had placed a portal in the Tab, and were trying to print that. It might be helpful to see a sample of your file.

As [color:blue]Christian said, there are ways to print out the data, it's just a matter of what will work the best for your needs.

Lee