Portal delete button repeating

[imoree]

Just asking a general question about portal behavior.

I have a portal and i had put an "X" to delete records but this was put in my Orders table. The portal was based on my Line Items table So this is what i noticed.

If i use the icon from the orders table this is the effect:

What i did was create a new field in my lineitems table to lookup the orders trash "X". and i get this:

I would like to know why i get the undesired repeating field when i think it shouldnt matter?

thanks

[Vaughan]

The relationship the portal is based on is set to allow the creation of related records. This produces the blank row at the bottom.

[efen]

Doesn't answer your specific question but is related to it ...

If required, you can create a conditional delete button that will not show in the portal (with auto creation enabled of related records) when there is no record.

Use a calculated field (result text)

If(IsEmpty ( portal primary key field );"";"X")

Use this calc field - conditionally formatted to show a red X - as the delete button with a script that does nothing if there is no portal row record but deletes the related record if used when one exists.

[imoree]

Efen,

if the calculated field does the calculation and inserts the "X" only if the primary key is not empty, then what am i conditionally formatting?

can u please give me an example ? i am confused.

what would the condition be i guess is what i am saying since the calculation took care of it?

-i

[efen]

Like the attached - although this just uses a conditionally formatted text object

delete.zip

[imoree]

Efen,

So based on this post:

Use a calculated field (result text)

If(IsEmpty ( portal primary key field );"";"X")

that is irrelevant to your file TOTALLY!!

that is what was confusing me, but in your file, your conditional

• child::_pk - true then turn Text RED
  
• THen your script checks if ID field and asks if you want to delete portal row.
  

Thanks for making me not think i was crazy .. YET!!

[efen]

This version has the extra field ...

delete2.zip

[imoree]

2nd version seems like why bother when your 1st method is much cleaner & simpler.

-i

[efen]

1st method is much cleaner & simpler

That's why I attached the first file rather than the one with the extra field - which I only posted because you seemed to have trouble understanding how it worked in a previous post