Portal Row Reordering using Drag & Drop

by Matt Petrowsky

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Ahh.., don't you just love it when a solution pops into your head and it's super simple and works great as well.

Such was the situation when a new subscriber wrote in asking me about an older technique from 2010. While the basic premise of comparing one container field against another makes sense, it's quite a bit harder to put this into practice within the same portal.

Either the field you're dragging from will obscure the field you need to drop into or FileMaker just doesn't have the feature set in order to make it technically happen. When script triggers won't fire until after the "drop" portion of a "drag and drop" sequence" you need to figure out how to make it happen.

That's exactly what this video is about. It's a super sublime implementation to a simple feature request. Being able to support Drag & Drop within the same portal without a whole lot of hassle.

How about accomplishing it without any extra table occurrences, calculations and only one field and one script? Watch now to find out how!