I have a calender that is represented via portals to days, with initial row offsets to get the month's correct days. Now within each day may be any number of todo items. these items are represented via a portal. so we have a portal within a portal. i have done portal filtering before. but this is on quite a large scale and i would like to get some input before continuing.

below is the layout and below that the realational diagram. as u can see all days have the two todo tasks. which are actually from different days.

Thankyou in advance.

Brendan

Did you have a question?

so we have a portal within a portal

Do we?? How...? Isn't it just a scrollable calc'resultfield inside a portalrow?? Otherwise won't the graphing fit the entire picture, or are you having 42 calc'fields each calling up their own set of portalrows ...but then isn't it a portal the "outer"part of it, but just a neat system of 42 portals arranged next to each other?

Take a look at how I solved this portal inside a portal problem:

Case (  Get ( CalculationRepetitionNumber ) = 1;

SinceWeAreInAPortal[2] & ¶ & 

SinceWeAreInAPortal[3] & ¶ & 

SinceWeAreInAPortal[4] & ¶ & 

SinceWeAreInAPortal[5] & ¶ & 

SinceWeAreInAPortal[6] & ¶ & 

SinceWeAreInAPortal[7] & ¶ & 

SinceWeAreInAPortal[8] & ¶ & 

SinceWeAreInAPortal[9] & ¶ & 

SinceWeAreInAPortal[10];



Substitute ( GetNthRecord ( Extend ( EVENTS::EventDescriptionShort  ); Get ( CalculationRepetitionNumber )-1 ) ; "?" ; "" ))

Found in this:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/attachment.php?attid/7281/

Honestly, far from ideal! The same kind of methodology as:

http://petervinogradov.com/TechniqueFiles/PV_PseudoPortals.zip

With all the limitations repeating calc'field exhibit in preplanning, how many event is most likely to occure in one day ... and what about the busy ones??

And BTW you never ever managed to come up with any kind of reply to this:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showpost.php?post/265061/

--sd

thanks for the replies. i built my model off the first link. i also didn't fancy the max limit of x number of events per date. I will have to get back to this at a later date though. priorities have changed.

Edited September 13, 200718 yr by Guest