The file included with this tutorial is intended to illustrate the features of filemaker pro, and as such, might. This will add the following in the edit calculation dialog box. May 23, 2012 how to sort portals by clicking on column labels posted. So when you click on the dup button on this new portal row, although you will see the new record there, it really isnt there in terms of existence in the table. Because of this, i currently have a jumbled mess of different methods of highlighting portal rows. Filemaker using a repeating field in a portal to display. A portal shows exactly one row for each related record. Found set portals and masterdetail philadelphia it. Filemaker pro advanced is the tool you use to create a custom app. Count field in a relationship so the basic steps are. Besides the object name for the portal, at least one object in the portal has to have an object name, too. The second option is more popular, you can have filemaker automatically add additional portal rows as the screen expands. You may even have seen some that used repeating fields. Start by importing data from a spreadsheet or using a builtin starter app to manage contacts, inventory, meetings, and more.
Now duplicate this new filtered portal and change the number of rows to 1, remove the fields and inserted text. Calculates the total number of visible portal rows not the number of records shown in these rows. Create the slider with all the available objects in the slider. The entire question is how do i get a count of all the rows in a portal. Like count the amount of times someone has been present, absent or late in an attendance. Sep, 2012 check the filter portal records and enter this into the specify calculation dialog. Another solution is to count the number of portal rows in the filter portal and use that as the number of found count after the portal has been filtered. Aggregates summary fields in filtered portals filemakerhacks. The count function only work for static portal, and will account for all related records regardless of the portal being filtered. Duplicate portal rows gday bill, the problem is caused by the new portal record not being committed. The thing is that the portal has 12 fields, so it doesnt fit on the iphone screen, i cant find any option for a horizontal scroll on the portal, so what. Originally, this example used the go to portal row by field.
Using fusioncharts with filemaker pro 15 filemaker, a powerful consumer database application, lets you create database solutions that work exactly as you want them to. How to sort portals by clicking on column labels posted. A customer recently asked about this and i thought folks might like to see it. Filemaker, portal sorting, portals, techniques, tips 6 comments update the technique described below is a good one, and works fine, but kevin frank has described a more elegant and portable way of doing it here the concept is essentially the same. The ui for this is simply an up and down arrow on the left of the portal row.
By using the left attribute, you only retrieve info for the visible rows of the portal. I was really hoping they would roll out a native horizontal portal in fmp. Going to a portal row by the contents of a field can be scripted. Dec 15, 2010 first, it is the relationship that must be sorted here, not the portal itself. May 30, 2017 learn how to adaptively delete a row in any filemaker 16 portal using a single script. Filemaker 17 portals for masterdetail layouts luminfire. You also use filemaker pro advanced to access your app on a computer. If a portal is sorted by the breakfield, it can show subsummary values using a calculation field defined in the child table.
This virtual list technique is part of what made our early filemaker calendars so fast, and allows filemaker solutions to show records from different tables in the same portal. The reason is that both the zrecordnumber calculation, and getnthrecord function, all work at the relationship level, not the portal level. Custom formatting is used to show or hide an overlay with summary information. Hello there, wouldnt it be just great to add new records in the top of a portal, instead of scrolling 188 records down and then finally finding the white line. Also, i was not so much concerned about getting a compacted list as with knowing when the function should stop walking the portal rows. In the last movie we were talking about relationships, and weve been talking about relationshipsbetween a parent and child table. Its also a tidy example of scripts used in drag and drop. Filemaker server 12 gives you reliable, highperformance access to your data. Even if your users are a bit more savvy, there may be enough occupied portal rows so that the blank row is hidden by the scroll bar. Heres stepby step process for how to create a custom tab panel hide tabs in filemaker 14. In filemaker, showing distinct values in a portal can be accomplished in various ways. Second, this method will not work with portal filtering in filemaker 11.
Securely host groups of filemaker pro users over a network or on the web by adding filemaker server separate purchase of filemaker pro required. For example, on our invoices details layout, yousee that we have a portal on screen here. Preventing careless delete actions in filemaker understanding the larger issues surrounding the delete button. Apr 05, 2011 the first thing we need to do is allow the user to sort the portal rows in an arbitrary fashion. This is a great and easy way to generate records without the need to script the process, and for that reason it is a popular technique among both new users and. First loop delete portal row no dialog go to portal row next. Click ok and resize the portal on the layout as needed. When it comes to supporting unique rows within multiple portals on the same layout, you need to find a way to track each portal independently and know which record is selected within each portal.
Check the filter portal records and enter this into the specify calculation dialog. Highlighting rows in filemaker lists or portals homebase software. First exit loop if isemptyrelationshipindex end loop where relationshipindex is a value stored in every field of your foreign table. First, it is the relationship that must be sorted here, not the portal itself.
Here is a snapshot of a portal row that i use to make my filemaker crossword puzzles. Instead of creating a tab panel, we are going to use a slider control. From dwayne wright pmp certified filemaker developer web. When we envision data management solutions, we tend to think of perfectuse scenarios, where no one ever creates a duplicate record, no one accidentally hits the new record button, no project is ever canceled, and certainly no errant script accidentally miscopies data. Hi everyone, im new to filemaker and am hoping someone can give me a hand. Specifically, what i want is to give the user the ability to click a checkbox which is in a given portal row, and have that single portal row be highlighted. January 19th demystifying subsummary reports fm academy. Clearcolumn deletes the content in the specified column in all rows. Here is a quick and easily modifiable script to populate a filemaker portal from a value list. Update the technique described below is a good one, and works fine, but kevin frank has described a more elegant and portable way of. Filemaker, portals, techniques, tips leave a comment often, i need to show the number of records shown in a given portal.
As a courtesy to fellow developers and potential clients, the following demonstration is provided for free download. Highlighting portal rows features such as highlighting selected portal rows provide an instant indication of what is selected or where the user is. For example, in a contacts layout the portal will display a list of related contact records from the same base table. Nov 27, 2017 hey all, heres an odd little question. You can define a button go to these portal rows directly via the button choices. Its fast, reliable, easytouse server software for securely managing your filemaker pro databases. I then set the icon to be left aligned horizontally and centrealigned on the vertical axis. This works only if your portal or portal relationship is set to sort descending by creation datetime or timestamp, or notes recordidserial number. Headers, footers, title headers, title footers, and top navigation and bottom navigation parts never shrink or slide up. This is a great and easy way to generate records without the need to script the process, and for that reason it is a popular technique among both new users and developers alike. Using fusioncharts suite xt you render and manipulate your charts seamlessly across any application built using filemaker pro 15. In any program on the mac, of course, you can always click the pdf button in. There may be many reasons to show related data in a portal on a body part of a report, maybe to show the last few entries in a log, for example.
First loop delete portal row no dialog go to portal row select. Records from 2 different tables in a portal via sql. I have a found set of 100 or so records and want to add a new portal row for each, using a script. You probably werent convinced, as we werent which is why, when the need arose, we came up with this technique. Horizontal portals a convincing simulation if youve been using filemaker for some time, youve probably seen a few simulations of socalled horizontal portal functionality.
In this example i have a simple relationship setup between customers and contacts. Javascript at filemaker devcon 2019 july 5, 2019 1. Filemaker developers blog subsummarys within portals pt i. You can have the portal rows expand in size but keep the same number of portal rows. Learn how to adaptively delete a row in any filemaker 16 portal using a single script.
Oct 21, 2017 if you have data like attendance data in a portal you might want to be able to summarize some of that data. Clearrow the function deletes the content in the specified row. How to sort portals by clicking on column labels a. The refresh is generally necessary to force the new record to appear in the correct sort order and for the last step you can either use go to field or go to object if the field is a named object. Although filemaker 8 doesnt offer the capability to scroll through columns, rather than rows, of related records or simply scroll horizontally to view more data in. In this tutorial, i show how to do this using a selfrelationship combined with a portal filter using the getnthrecord field name.
Lotus notes developers toolboxc tips for rapid and successful deployment. Filemaker using a repeating field in a portal to display related. If you specify that a portal slides up and the enclosing part shrink, filemaker pro advanced omits empty portal rows. Better portal design part 1 iso filemaker magazine. Portal sorting, part 2 filemakerhacks filemaker tips. Feel free to follow along in todays demo file, portal sorting, part 2, if you are so inclined. If your filemaker database is going to be used to print reports of any kind, you. Apr 07, 2011 feel free to follow along in todays demo file, portal sorting, part 2, if you are so inclined. Im trying to create a loop to delete all portal rows.
The first thing we need to do is allow the user to sort the portal rows in an arbitrary fashion. This technique does not merely simulate text formatting using overlaid fields, but parses the field according to the. By daniel wood, 15 december 2010 filemaker provides us with the ability to create related records directly from a portal. The problem is that the row directly after the last row of data shows the delete button, even tho it has no data in the portal row. The active portal row always matches the record number of the current record being viewed, and. Is there a way to eliminate blank rows from a portal in a filemaker report. Fyi i tried the same calculation to retrieve the id but instead of returning unique ids in all rows of the portal it only returns 7 unique ids and repeats the same row ids in all 6 rows of the portal. Can i get records from 2 different tables to appear in the same portal via a sql filter calculation. Novices dont understand that the blank portal row allows them to add new related records. Filemaker portal show distinct value tutorial the scarpetta. They dont slide properly when you print, they dont display horizontally, they loose their position and default to the first portal row, dont offer horizontal. This may or may not be the same as a found count, or total record count when using portal filtering, different portals can show. What am i trying to accomplish is have the location select layout filter records in the item layout.
Populating a portal from a value list homebase software. Obviously id need to have the different fields from each table in the portal and yes its probably a kludge but i thought it the easiest solution for what i n. Only the one extra row has this, the rest are blank as they should be. This new demo employs a similar technique, except instead of using the getrecordid, instead, the script gets the actu.
We looked at how we can place related fields on a layoutbased on the child in the parentchild relationship so that they can borrow values from the parenttable, thus eliminating the need for redundant data in your database. I have a portal displaying data with a delete button for each row. Jun 29, 2014 you can have the portal rows expand in size but keep the same number of portal rows. During conversion to filemaker 9, this was automatically updated to go to row by calculation. Filemaker using a repeating field in a portal to display related records. You can set layout parts to shrink when the fields in them slide up. Place that bit of text in the portal, and youll see your running count of records. In filemaker, you now have the ability to not onlyapply formatting to a portal, but also the individual portal rows. Ive got a long walklist of addresses and a related file with all the voters registered at that address. If you may require assistance implementing procedures such as those shown in the example files, please consider establishing an account with us for developer support.
Nov 05, 2011 this virtual list technique is part of what made our early filemaker calendars so fast, and allows filemaker solutions to show records from different tables in the same portal. About half only have one resident, the other half has from 2 to 8 residents. A portal is simply a way of showing a list of related records. The records are people, and the portal rows are items to be sent to them. A single click will select a portal row using native row selection and highlighting, not a stored id, a doubleclick will expose an edit pane using a filemaker popover to view, enter or edit detail for the row in question and a drag action will modify the sort order of visible rows. How to show the number of portal rows a filemaker miscellany. In this example, using one of filemakers builtin templates for projects, i imagined a scenario where a project had a standard set of steps that needed to be generated whenever a new project was begun. If the user clicks up the line moves up, click down and the line moves down. Your first thought might be to add a button titled new portal row. If you have data like attendance data in a portal you might want to be able to summarize some of that data. The same field is used elsewhere on the same layout, to show the count of a differently filtered subset of attendance records. Navigate filemaker portal rows via buttons thepracticalba. Filemaker, portal sorting, portals, techniques, tips 6 comments. A very nice way to format a sorted portal using conditional.
Applying active state formatting to portal rows and list views. The demo shows how to create a grid of buttons without having to use different script parameters on all the different buttons. Because using filemaker pro is the most effective way to learn th e application, each lesson features a hands on activity designed to guide you through menus, screens, and concepts step by step. If you use the separation model, here is a separationfriendly version. Dec 15, 2010 filemaker provides us with the ability to create related records directly from a portal.
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