Define repeat display region in Body tag

[Shellfish]

Hi there,

I am only new to Filemaker, but since I have a lot of experience with PHP and MYSQL Databases, I have been able to use this in building with Filemaker.

My question is:

Am I able to define a region where the sorted files or "Repeat Region" are in the Body section of the page.

I want to display a large background image in the body and have the displayed fields (from search) over the top of this.

So far I can only see that a repeat region occurs when you set a line of fields and move the body tag under the first line. This means I can't have a print out with the full background image.

Can you display a list of results in the Body inside a container or "mother field"?

Please see example below:

Hoping you can help.

Regards

Warren

[Inky Phil]

Hi Warren and welcome,

What you are calling 'repeat regions' look awfully like areas that are called 'portals' in FM.

These are areas where related records from another table or external file or indeed the same file can be displayed.

Since portals can be of any size and postion you could indeed have a background graphic and display 3 sets of related records just like your jpg.

HTH

Phil

[Genx]

Lol, and here i was thinking he wanted to repeat parts of a gingerbread man for some reason hehe.

[Inky Phil]

Heck Genx, for all I know you might be right, I was only guessing!!!

Phil ;)

[Lee Smith]

Maybe they are looking for a Cookie Cutter database.

Lee

[Shellfish]

ha ha you guys !

Thanks for that Phil, I'll try your suggestion.. apologies for the bad syntax :

Cheers and thankyou