Adding a new row of items with a add button without creating a new field

[kungx]

Basically I want a simple layout like the picture attached but the question is if I wanted another row underneath the first one without creating a new field in the database, Is this possible with a button?

[bcooney]

You should read about portals. From your drawing you need 4 fields. Each row is a record in a table.

[kungx]

Basically I want to add a child record within the parent layout with whatever I need and also that goes for deleting. Plus I want the page to keep growing or expand as I put more items into the page with no scroll. If you have a sample please upload so I can bench from it.

 

Thank you.

[bcooney]

Do you know what a portal is? Is it the presence of scroll bars that prohibits its use?

[kungx]

Yes I understand it on what it does from youtube but from the looks of it the child data has to be there already which is not the case on my end. Building the portal with already base child record is not the main idea but that's what the guys from youtube are telling me.

 

I'm trying to do the opposite from the parent to the child. I suppose I'll have to force the parent to create 50 child records automatically in order to build a proper portal right away but I am trying to dumbfied for some of my collegues so they don't have to do it.

 

Basically the reason for the design is that it's suppose to look like a receipt and if it keeps growing then the page should continue to grow until the user is satisfied with the entry. The scroll is not needed because of this reason because it will not print the extra data that would be in that parent record

 

I suppose anyone wouldn't have a receipt fm database I can look?

[webko]

Not sure we need a portal for this.

 

The button could trigger a script to create a new record in a List view, and then go to Record/Request [Last]

[bcooney]

Webko - list view? "Basically I want to add a child record within the parent layout"

 

Take this demo apart. I think it'll help you understand portals better. You do NOT need the child record to pre-exist!

[kungx]

Ok well I have the portal to work the way that I almost want. The portal is actually creating the child records as I see fit but I still can't get the portal object to grow vertically as the list grows. Oh yes from my notes above I do not want a vertical scroll bar because this record is suppose to print out even if it is 10 pages long. Anyone have any ideas?

[bcooney]

Portals do not grow. You would design a report from the context of the child table, adding related parent fields as needed. There are many demos of this on the forums.

[webko]

Which is what I was alluding to (not very successfully) in my rather hurried post...

 

I'll be a bit more considered in posting.