This has got to be really easy....sorry for asking...but sometmes I have portal rows that always highlight (from copied portals), but new ons i make don't highlight... Where is the "highlight portal row" switch?

There is no "portal highlight switch."

If you click on a portal row, it will reverse color. So black text on white becomes white text on black.

You can set a portal to have a background fill on alternate rows by doubleclicking on a portal in layout view and selecting "alternate background fill."

But perhaps you are referring to a portal technique that does more than change the portal row color. If you put a calc field of type container in the background of a portal row. The calc would be something like:

cPortalRowHighlight = if (myid=parent::globalid, gHighlight, "")

where gHighlight is another global container that has in it a colored rectangle of whatever color will look nice as a shade in your layout color scheme. It should be a rather light color so that the portal data can still be read.

Assign the container calc field to a script that when it's clicked, will set the parent::globalid field equal to the portal row's record id. This makes your calc field equal to true and the portal will highlight.

This technique is often used in popup windows that contain portals for selecting a record. When popup menus become too long, the popup window with portal is the interface technique to use.

So, I would look closely at the portals that do highlight and see if there's a field in it that is as wide and as long as the portal row, is probably behind all other portal fields and has a perform script button assignment. Then you're dealing with the technique that is described above.

Yep that does it...I've just been looking too hard at the portal...

Thanks!