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Auto extending portal entries?

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I am still very new to FM - but very keen...

Once again apologies if this is not a good question or indeed in the wrong forum...

Is there a way to place a text field onto a portal and set the portal rows (or maybe the format the text field) so that it automatically expands to show all of the contents of the text field - ie varying heights.

Many thanks

Cheers

Simon

Simon,

The ability for fields sizes to self-expand is not possible in FileMaker.

Have you tried using a scroll bar in the Portal field?

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John,

Many thanks - and also for the link...

Simon

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I will put a scroll bar on for the browse layouts ty

Come to think about it though - for things like invoice layouts where a description could be one line or many lines I assume you still can't have expanding fields.

Maybe I should use a Crystal layout linked by ODBC to the FM database - can you call an external app from within FM and pass parameters?

Cheers

Simon

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