Pop Up Dialog box with fields

[frida]

I am working on a database for an Talent Agent and need to have a section for scripts that they recieve. I would like to created a button where you can add roles and when you press it I would like there to be a pop-up row with fields to enter... Basically on of the records to be a pop-up... Is that possible?

Thanks

Frida

[J__]

I'm not exactly clear on the 'role's part here. You can certainly have a layout, which contains a list of roles, which you can add to.

You can also have a layout appear which 'pops up' over the other layout and contains some fields in it , which you can fill out.

I'm sorry i don't follow the 'basically' section here.

[frida]

Sorry, maybe my explaination wasn't very clear. We basically recieve tons of film/tv/theatre scripts and have to do breakdown of the different roles/parts in the script. i am creating the databast to fill in information about the scripts/production. As there are different amount of roles in different script the easiest way to do it would be to click a button that says add role and a box would pop up where you fill in the information about the character (about 5 fields) and click ok. There might be up to 20 parts so I guess it would be best is the roles were shown in a portal? I am very new to the software and am glad for any help I can get.

Thanks

Frida

[mlemmnapa]

Just pop up a new window which shows the layouts for the fields you need that grabs the parent key and populates the child records with the role data that will then be shown in a portal.

[frida]

Do I need to use a script to make this work? In that case which one?

I have created a table for roles and added the fields I want people to fill in. Now I would like to press a button to make it appear in the portal on the main table.

Thanks

Frida