Portal Visibility

[Stuart Taylor]

You need 8.5 to use this file

Dedicated to John Marks Visibility example on the Database Pros website which has always been my favourite trick.

This is a trick for making a portal disappear, I've always wanted to do this.

Its unlocked so see how long it takes you to work it out :qwery: ... is actually very simple but effective and would work for anything on a layout.

Have fun :)

PortalVisibility.fp7.zip

Edited September 14, 2006 by Guest

[Ocean West]

My only suggestion is to remove the the tab object from the object tab order, otherwise the user could tab to the tab object and execute it... --- wow i actually said that. LOL, A more verbose way probably wouldn't have made it any easier.

[Stuart Taylor]

Ohhh didn't realize you could tab to objects, ooooh buttons to, nice.

Thanks so much have updated the file -)

Tabtastic

[Stuart Taylor]

PS...

the words "show" and "hide" come from the Format / Number... so no calc needed ... found this in another post but can't find it to attribute author. That has got to be one of my favourite finds recently because its so reductive.

--

Found it http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/174925/post/197898/hl/cows/

Thanks Comment -)

For some reason this Topic really made me laugh ... the whole cows thing is somehow funny to read as i'm so used to objects and people ... Amazing what others use FileMaker for...

best stuart

Edited September 14, 2006 by Guest

[Raybaudi]

... and I have wasted some times to search where those words come from.

BTW: another good tip from this site ( I don't remember who said it ) is for the "toggle" script ( only two steps vs seven )

Set field [ Database::ObjectToggle = Abs ( Database::ObjectToggle - 1 ) ]

Go to object [ ObjectName:Database::ObjectToggle ]

[Stuart Taylor]

sweet ... i love it when files keep getting smaller ... Thanks Daniele and Stephen top tips.

:)

PortalVisibility_1_1.fp7.zip

Edited September 14, 2006 by Guest

[Stuart Taylor]

Ok different method but i should have guessed John Mark would have already seen this hehe : ...

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/176392/

You may also want to see:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/178648/

Edited September 19, 2006 by Guest