horizontal portals

[desta]

I guess there is no answer to this, but it could be a good suggestion for filemaker team...

Is there a way to make horizontal portals?

I have to display a grid showing pre-scheduled sessions displaying time values. Three lines, one for today, one for the day before and one for the next day. Clicking on a timefield should bring up an appointments dialog.

I actually made it working. there are three series of twelve horizontally aligned different portals. For each portal, I had to select a different starting row to display. But then I also had to duplicate the time fields for every portal, and manually program every field to be a button. The formatting was also a pain, as graphics must not cross the portal area if it has to be displayed on the web properly.

It would really be great if there was a way to make the portal "rows" appear horizontally , just like the repetition fields. it would save a lot of time in such cases as schedules or calendars. (or even in a grid format?)

Sorry to bother you about that, but I thought it would be great if future version of filemaker allowed this. There are always great improvements in the filemaker version updates, but I don't know where they put their "suggestions box"!

Any suggestion also appreciated if it can save me 36 times (3*12 rows) the repetitive time to set a button and conditional formatting because guess what: I have to do it once more, as there has to be a "change session" panel in the solution!

[comment]

For each portal, I had to select a different starting row to display. But then I also had to duplicate the time fields for every portal, and manually program every field to be a button.

Finish one portal first - then duplicate and change the starting row.

[desta]

Good point.

Copy and Align should be more pleasant than change every option for every portal/field... wonder why I did not have this idea. Deleting and starting over instead of a modification to what is already done is often the best solution, but we are naturally reticent to Delete and start over...

Thanks.

[Vaughan]

... we are naturally reticent to Delete and start over...

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[Lee Smith]

FileMaker has been around for over 10 years now.

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The first version of FileMaker was released in 1984.