Portals: Filtering a Index Bins Table with a Union/Join Table (Three Table Solution)

[Nathan Brock]

Table 1: List of Parts in Inventory

_pKey_PartNumber ( Unique Value)

Table 2: List of Part Bin Locations in Inventory Stacks

_pKey_BinLocID (Unique Value)

Table 3: Union : Stores Transactions about which Bins have been select to ties to specific parts

_fKey_PartNumber

_fKey_BinLocID

_pKey_TransActionID

Table 1 [one to many transactions] Table 3

Table 2 [One BinLoc can have many transactions ] Table 3

Scenario:

Looking on layout Parts Inventory (Table 1). I want two portals: Portal A will show all the Bin Locations the part has selected may be stored at. Portal B will show all the other Bins that have not been assigned to this part.

Right now I can accomplish Portal A very easily with a one to many relationship to the union table using the pKey_PartNumber to _fKey_PartNumber.

However when I try to get portal B to work, it shows me all the bins in the company even ones I have already selected. How can this index of bins be filtered by bins already assigned to a specific part.

Let me know if I am unclear on anything, hope fully there will be a solution.

Thanks All!

[comment]

See if this helps:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showpost.php?post/233897/

BTW, "union" is NOT the same thing as "join".

[Nathan Brock]

Excellent! That solution was easy to apply to my database and worked perfectly even in Instant Web Publishing. Thanks