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Changing some of my old-fashioned practices

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August 26, 201411 yr

Hi there,

I have a tendency to create too many relationships in Filemaker.

Currently I use globals to set up portals that need to see all related records with a particular status. I know I can use portal filters but if the related table has thousands of records and I use a filter it takes ages to index and display.

I also like having portals that change what they display based on a Finder field that forms part of the relationship. For instance "courseNameFinder" where you enter the first 4 words of a course name is related to a field in the related table called "courseName1st4Words" which is a calculation e.g. LeftWords(courseName, 4). So I need a separate relationship for each finder field - there might be others such as "courseDateFinder", "courseCodeFinder" and so on.

If there are better ways to deal with either of these issues please let me know.