I have a 450 row portal that prints out over 11 pages. After a few pages, the printout mangles the names at the bottom and/or top of the pages.

I know I can do a summary report instead, but wanted to do the portal if it was possible. Any way to get a portal to break properly over multiple pages?

Thanks

Peter

The portal doesnt recognize where the page margins are for text not to be cut off. For 450 records, you really should be printing the subsummary report as you mentioned from the CHILD record set.

I'm curious how you approach this scenario with related data?

For example, let's assume I want to print records from several tables. There may be several records for each related table or none. I've seen some topics here that discuss moving the data to a temp table, but this seems like a lot of legwork to accomplish.

My other example I guess would be Crystal Reports. You can have sub-reports inside a report. I have attached a screenshot of a crystal report with sub-reports for reference.

Yes sometimes with FM you need to unfortunately manipulate for a report. We have many reports where we have to dump out a temp table.

I keep thinking this is number one bug in FileMaker. Absolutely unacceptable, and ongoing since FileMaker II.

I agree with you that it is well overdue... Although for me the GTRR layout bug bothers me the most even though most can live with it... ;)

I actually figured out that you place a copy of the portal on each page and change the starting row. It's not perfect but it does work.

Thanks for all the advice.

peter