Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations Mike Lewis on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Sliding and Portals 1

Status
Not open for further replies.
jmbter

jmbter

Technical User
Jun 24, 2005
17
US
Having some trouble getting a portal to slide. The fmp 7 help guide states "Portals slide like any other non-field object, but objects within a portal can't slide. If you specify that a portal slides up and the enclosing part shrink, FMP omits empty portal rows." Sorry for my ignorance as I am new to the software. I'd like for the portal to slide up and display only the rows with data in them while printing. When I attempt to slide the portal, it completely disappears and shows no data. Any suggestions would be a huge help,
Jmbter
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
Still having trouble getting the portal to slide. Everything else seems to be sliding perfectly, however when I go to print, there are a few blank pages that always print following the actual text in the body. Again I appreciate all help/ideas
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Resolved the sliding portal problem however the blank pages still follow the body of the text. For instance, it is printing 4 pages because the portal rows span 4 pages in the layout mode however when the data is in the portal and slid up to its last value, it only uses 3 pages, how do I prevent the 4th blank page(s) from printing? Thanks
Jmbter
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Portals were not designed to be printed. They will print, but there are serious limitatiions. The problem is that portals only print as many rows as are showing on the layout.
If you have a portal that display 5 rows, but this particular record has 8 rows in the portal, the last 3 will never print. Reverse also portal with 8 rows, only 5 will print, 3 blanks etc.
You could make a separate layout with a portal that has enough rows to satisfy the largest number of rows, but even then, fields within portal rows will not slide up through unused portal space. In addition, if a portal crosses a page break, it will not break elegantly.

To get the best results, you'll need to use a sub-summary report in the related file/table.
The sub-summary is sorted by the match field from the related file.

best is to print from the related file to have no problems at all.

HTH
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Alf50
  • Locked
  • Question
Button and ENTER
Replies
0
Views
224
Alf50
Alf50
protoolco
  • Locked
  • Question
win 7 and fm9
Replies
0
Views
68
protoolco
protoolco
caman74
  • Locked
  • Question
Modifying ExBiz with Locations/bins and picking
Replies
1
Views
81
JeanW
JeanW
effectsguy
  • Locked
  • Question
Multiple Look up or Portals
Replies
1
Views
54
CryoGen
CryoGen
bithead9
  • Locked
  • Question
Possible to share PC and Mac Filemaker DB ?
Replies
2
Views
67
gmannatl
gmannatl

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top