Real Estate property match

[krisgo]

Hi Everyone!

 

I am fairly new to FM and so far I really enjoy working with it.

But now I am stuck on something regarding relationsships.

 

I would like to create a real estate database. I have set up three tables:

- Customers

- Buy requests

- Sell request

There is a primary key in the Customer table and there are foreign keys in the Buy, and Sell request databases.

So the  relationsship is One - to many from the Customer db to the Buy Request db and also from the Customer to  Sell Request db.

So I can create a portal on the Customer detail page that lists all the sell and buy requests that belong to that customer.

 

My problem is, that I want to create a portal on a Buy Request detail page that lists all the properties within the database that  are for sale and match the buy request. And also the pther way round.

So it is a kind of "property match" that I would like to accomplish.

How can I do that with FM? What kind of retaionsship do I need to create?

 

Many thans in advance!

[Ocean West]

Welcome to the forums...

 

what are the criteria to perform a Match?

 

SqFt / Rooms / Location / Garage / Bathrooms?

 

- I may suggest that if you have un known list criteria you may be better off to script or use SQL to do a find or query for your search -then the result returned is a return

separated list of UID for the records ( Sell Requests ) then put this result into a text field (can be global ) on the BUY record and then relate it to the UID in the SELL request table.