get a portal of container documents to look like a finder list

[Miko]

i would like the format of my portal to look like a list in mac os x's finder. a small icon with the file name to the right of it. is it simply impossible to format that way or am i missing something? i can get a small icon, but the text is always under the icon.

thanks

Limore

[John Mark Osborne]

It is possible to place an icon and text on the same line in a portal. All you have to do is put them side-by-side in the portal. Most likely, you will want the icon on the left and the field on the right. Layout mode in FileMaker works just like a drawing program so you should be able to move the objects by dragging them in the middle and resize them using the anchor points on each corner.

[Miko]

i should have prefaced it all by saying that the portal contents is a container field that contains a file. this has actually become more complex than it started out being.

i am working with someone who is assisting me in an automated workflow using applescript to tie a few apps together. the problem is that when applescript inserts the file, it shows as only an icon. (i originally formatted two of the same container fields differently. one that would display the graphic on the left and one that would only show the text on the right. it worked fine for manually inserting a file)

so what i would like to do now and can't figure out is, how do i extract the name of the file from the container field which produces a path to the file that looks like this:

file:Conflicts Test/Docket Report (Enron).pdf

filemac:/Macintosh HD/Users/limore/Desktop/Conflicts Test/Docket Report (Enron).pdf

and obviously i can't really hard encode any of this as the directory locations can change as well as the names of the files.

any ideas would be stupendous.

thanks,

Limore