Hi. I need to do the following. I have a portal with, say, three fields per line. I want to give the user a button so that it will go to a script and put info into one of the fields in the portal. How do I have a script that will know how to go to a field in a particular line in a portal, or rather a field in a particular record in a portal.

I'd do this: See demo attached.

EditPortalRow.fp7.zip

You can go to a specific portal row and then use go to field to get to the field that you want.

That works. Thanks. Now I just wish they'd have portals within portals. It would simplify things tremendously.

Would it? Maybe Excelisys' Hierchical Portals is worth a look. However, I really don't know what your need is.

In short I have 3 tables. One is Family, one camper, one transportation. Each family has multiple campers, each camper can have separate transportation records, one for am and address and one for pm and address. I have a portal for campers within family. I would love a portal within the camper portal with the two transportation records.

Mike

Well, you cannot have a portal within a portal, but you can get very close by using a portal to the transportation table, "grouped" by camper - see an example here:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showpost.php?post/266405/

How about if I ask it this way. Can I have a layout that has family info on top, then a portal that has each campers record info (so far as I have it set it right now) and then if you click on a portal can I have fields on the right side of the portal (outside the portal) that give relevant information about the camper that's not in the portal. So if I click on Johns portal record, on the right side of the screen you see Johns info. Then I click on Susans portal record and on the right side I see all the info for Susan?

Of course you can:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showpost.php?post/333539/

This is incredible! Thank you so much. I just used this for my other portal within portal problem. I use the same temporary key for another portal that has the bus information. It seems to works like a charm. Needs more testing. In any event thanks alot!

I use the same temporary key for another portal that has the bus information.

Of course.

Ran into this issue. In your solution the name in the portal (the only field) is also a button that passes the key to the variable. That's great. However, the portal that I use has numerous fields. How do I get the user to push the right field in order to set up the variable? Do I have to make all the variables in the portal a button that does the same thing?

You can place a button behind the fields in the portal.