Portal Navigation Consistency

[FileMaker Magazine]

by Matt Petrowsky

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As with many other development environments, FileMaker offers just enough features to make things happen (and, in the case of FileMaker, a bit more). It's when you use certain features beyond their intended use where you need to get creative.

One such feature are portals. These are primarily for the purpose of showing related data. However, it's just way too appealing to use them for many other things. One of the most common uses is for navigation.

There's a problem, however, when you leave from one record to visit another, via the Go To Related Record script step, the portal resets and causes a disruption in the user interface.

This FileMaker tutorial addresses that issue and focuses on Portal Navigation Consistency.

Details: Released - 3/15/2011 / Size - 19.53 MB / Length - 15 min

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