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Portals

Portal is a great tool for bringing related records to their master record's layout. However, not all things you would like to do with portals have natural support in FileMaker Pro, or if they have it may not be obvious how you are supposed to implement them. That's where our tips & trick may help you to push the limits of FileMaker Pro portals.

  Horizontal Portal          Download

This example demonstrates how a single new function of FileMaker Pro 8 made it extremely easy to implement simulated horizontal portals and matrices (spreadsheet-like portals). There are no extra relationships necessary to simulate the special portals. Only a single calculation for every displayed related field is used thanks to the FileMaker Pro 8's function GetNthRecord.


Type: freeware





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Item   Notes   Files
Horizontal Portal   Mac OS X, Windows, 124 KB, freeware   HorizontalPortal.sit
        HorizontalPortal.zip