Portal to show all records for selected record

[Chris Thacker]

I'm creating a database to keep track of our IT dept servers.

 

 

 

It's similar to a Customer > Invoices > Invoice type setup.

 

The 'server' table is the main database where each server gets entered. Because each server can have many 'MAC addresses', 'IP addresses', and 'domain names', I've created a table for each.

 

It's working except I'd like to have a portal show ALL domain names for a single server record that's being looked at.

 

I've tried creating a new table occurrence for "domain_names", as shown in the image, and linked it to both:

• domain_names__server::server_addresses_fk  X  server::ID

• domain_names__server::MAC_addresses_fk  X  MAC_Addresses::ID (shown in the image... the table occurrence name is just left over from the previous attempt to get it working when it was linked to 'server')

 

in both cases it shows ALL domain names for ALL records, which is not what I want.

What do I need to do?

 

Thanks

[webko]

Not use a Cartesian join ( the X in the link between TOs ) - that does exactly as is occurring, and relates all records to all records...

[Chris Thacker]

4 minutes ago, webko said:

Not use a Cartesian join ( the X in the link between TOs ) - that does exactly as is occurring, and relates all records to all records...

When I use "=" nothing shows up.

Should the 2nd table occurrence point to 'server' or to 'MAC_Addresses"? I've tried both and can only get either everything to appear or nothing.

Edited February 29, 2016 by Chris Thacker

[comment]

35 minutes ago, Chris Thacker said:

It's similar to a Customer > Invoices > Invoice type setup.

If (as it seems from your RG) you have a a chain of one-to-many relationships:

Servers -< MAC_Addresses -< IP_Addresses -< Domains

then you only need to place a portal to Domains on a layout of Servers, in order to show all domain names related to the currently viewed server. There is no need to add another TO of Domains (and certainly, if you use the x relational operator, it will make all domain names related - which is not what you want).

 

Edited February 29, 2016 by comment

[Chris Thacker]

Just now, comment said:

If (as it seems from your RG) you have a a chain of one-to-many relationships:

Servers -< MAC_Addresses -< IP_Addresses -< Domains

then you only need to place a portal to Domains on a layout of Servers, in order to show all domain names related to the currently viewed server. There is no need to add another TO of Domains (and certainly, if you use the x relational operator, it will make all domain names related - which is not what you want).

 

 

I tried this and the portal doesn't show any records.

Thanks for your reply.

[comment]

6 minutes ago, Chris Thacker said:

I tried this and the portal doesn't show any records.

That would indicate there are no related records. Check your data and your field types.

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Edited February 29, 2016 by comment

[Chris Thacker]

I have placeholder data entered and it's appearing otherwise...

 

[comment]

Is the Domain_Name field shown in the portal to domain_names taken from the same TO?

[Chris Thacker]

5 minutes ago, comment said:

Is the Domain_Name field shown in the portal to domain_names taken from the same TO?

yes, it is.

[comment]

Then I don't know. What does a portal to IP_addresses show?

[Chris Thacker]

IP_addresses is empty as well.

This databases did have some actual live data in it and then I realized I needed to modify it so I deleted the data with the thought that I'd add it back after modifications.

What's interesting is that when I create a new 'server' record and then add a MAC address record within it, an IP address will appear in this new 'all IP' portal without me entering one. This IP that's showing up was at one time entered in. The 'all domains' portal is empty.  If I then delete this test record and do a Find for this mystery IP it doesn't return a result. Where could it be pulling this from?

[comment]

I don't know. There is something you're not telling us. Or your file is corrupted - but that's much less likely. I suggest you take a copy of your file, remove everything except the TOs shown in your original post (not including the extra domain_names TO) and see if you can make that work. If not, post that file.

[Chris Thacker]

I think I figured out what was wrong.  I linked MAC_addresses to IP_addresses after I had started entering records so the IDs weren't working correctly. I quickly redid a new set of 3 tables and it seems to be working with those.