Find via Tabbed Portals ... need a simpler method.

The sample file below shows a very basic version of a technique I've been using to enable the user to specify three different groups of results and have them available as tab-selected portals. It has worked just fine up until now.

The problem is that I now want to expand the layout to support up to 12 portals. Before I launch into a brute-force expansion, I was wondering if there might be a simpler technique that wouldn't require a dozen table occurrences and global fields ... or should I just stick with what works?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

TabFind.fp7.ZIP

This can possibly be done with mock tabs using the technique presented at this link.

Link to Hiding Tabs

The button can set a global field to the match key that you want. This way you will only need one portal, the global key, and possibly two tabs... One for preference, and the other to display the portal.

This would deviate from having to create a new tab for each situation but you would kind of be straying from FM's native tabbing system.

Basically, you would make it look like the tabs were changing when the user selects the buttons that look like tabs, but in reality it would not be changing...

Uhhm this thread is kind of related to this other thread posted today...

Fenton pretty much posted a sample file similar to what I was talking about...

Similar thread

Yes, I had implemented the buttons-on-top-of-tabs technique on other layouts and I understand what you're suggesting. For the specific instance I'm working on, it would essentially be emulating a tab panel with a row of buttons across the top that enable a single portal to show different results. That may end up being a good alternative to what I'm now doing.

Thanks for the suggestion.