Portals and Containers

[IEW]

I have a Portal that contains 10 Containers.  Each Container is a thumbnail picture stored externally.  I want to click on the thumbnail and open a large view of picture.  I can only get it to work on first container field by opening new window.  How do you change the field by caclulation to get different container to show?

[Wim Decorte]

You definitely do not need a calculation for this.   The button that is attached to the thumbnail should do a "go to related record" and that puts you on the proper record for the bigger picture you want to show

[IEW]

The problem is that containers are stored in each Record.

[IEW]

I want to open each in a new window for increased size. Opening one no problem.  New Layout field change is problem.  Portal attached.

 

 

[Wim Decorte]

That's not a portal in the FileMaker sense of it, so be careful with the lingo.  A portal is the widget that displays related records.

 

in your case you just have a bunch of pictures in one record.  You probably should break that out and make each picture one related record in a "pictures" table. That will make things a lot easier.

 

Otherwise you need a layout with a global container on it.  The button on the thumbnail needs to pass a parameter so that you know what picture to set in the global container field for viewing, and a big IF / ELSE IF script to step through the various possible parameters

[IEW]

I think a Portal is going to be just fine, after all it is looking into a record with 10 picture fields.  The problem is that when I click on a container in that portal it needs to pass the field name to a  layout with only one field.  I can set up multiple layouts and it works just fine as each one has name of field.