Portal Reordering using Drag Drop

[EBJ]

Matt Petrowsky's recent solution (and video on the Filemaker magazine) to reorder portal rows using drag drop is inspiring, and will add much needed elegance to my database. I encounter one anomaly, and it relates to portals that employ a scroll bar. While dragging to a new destination, the portal rows don't scroll along with you.  Has anyone who uses this solution had this issue? As a subscribed user of the magazine, I am unable to add Matt's technique file.

 

Regards

 

Eric

 

http://www.filemakermagazine.com/videos/portal-row-reordering-using-drag-drop.html

 

[brian rich]

As far as I am aware, you can only move portal lines into view with the mouse by using the scroll bar on the portal. You can change the rows visible by means of a script action, but the action of dragging over the rows doesn't generate any trigger information to run a script, so I don't think this can be done.

 

Excelisys offers a similar technique here  http://www.excelisys.com/filemaker-tips-tricks-demos-downloads.php

 

but as with Matt's demo, you can only drag within the visible rows

 

 

Brian

[EBJ]

Thanks Brian. This one that has been baffling me. I think it's a case of simply accepting it can't be done. Thanks again.

 

Eric

[Lee Smith]

As a subscribed user of the magazine, I am unable to add Matt's technique file.

 

As a subscriber, it is available to you if your are logged in. You show your version as Client 9, the file was written in version 12, could this be the problem?

[EBJ]

Hi Lee, thank you for the response. I was somewhat ambiguous earlier - I meant to say that I couldn't add the file to the forum, as I believe that it would be available to both subscribers and non-subscribers. I am using v12.

 

Eric

[Lee Smith]

Yes, that would require the authorization by Matt.