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Hella All

I have built a portal page which filters my catalogue records and displays them in a portal. It effectively enables to look for items without doing a search. For example; if you choose a "datefrom" and a "dateto" and a "category" (all dropdown global values lists) the portal will only display those related records.

The problem is that if someone filters the portal and wants to leave a blank value, the portal returns nothing. This is logical as no records have empty fields.

So, I'm rying to devise a way that when one or several criteria are left blank the portal returns ALL the records for that category. Bassicaly I'm trying to tell the system that nothing = everything.

I've tried the usual search symbols but they don't work presumably because I'm not in search mode.

I realize that I might well be barking up the wrong tree but that would be a shame as the filtering (or search) works instantly without the need for a button.

Thanks again for your previous help, this is a great forum.

[aldipalo]

New Century Data has a free download at:

http://www.newcenturydata.com/downloads.php

Look at Filtered Portals.

HTH

Al