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

 

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

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

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?

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

Yes, that would require the authorization by Matt.