Portal rows

[mhudd]

Why is the blank portal row that follows a data row necessary? It is very confusing to the user.

[Vaughan]

It's not necessary. To turn it off, uncheck the option "allow creation of related records" in the portal's relationship.

However, adding new related records with the blank row is dead simple -- just click and type: FMP creates the new records in the related database and inserts the appropriate value for the key automatically. Teach your users how to use the blank row -- to create a new related record "manually" requires a global field, a "global" relationship and quite a bit of to-ing and fro-ing with scripts.