Thanks for the suggestion, but I did set that option on and if I go
into Layout Mode as you suggest, and double click the portal that
check box is checked. There has to be something else.
Incidentally, I tried recreating the layout from scratch a second
time and the problem occurs in the second instance of the layout as
well.
Glenn Mahler
On Dec 7, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Bruce Herbach wrote:
Glenn,
It sounds like you have most of the Portal working since you are
seeing the data. This may be to simple an approach but... Mke sure
the Portal is set up to show a vertical Scroll bar. To do this,
go into Layout mode and double click on the portal. When the
dialog box comes up put a check mark into the "Show Vertical Scroll
Bar" box.
I hope this helps.
Bruce Herbach
glennmahler wrote:
I am a relatively recent user of FMPro 9 on my home computer (Mac
OS 10.4) but I have 20+ years experience using and developing
other data base systems. In the month or so on FM pro
I have successfully ported about 5 applications over from Access
databases on a Windows98 system into FMPro.
A couple of those previous applications involved the use of a
portal but I am working on another application and when I enter
the portal field into the layout in this app and switch to browse
mode, I don't see the multi-line box with the scroll bar that
appears in the other applications. As far as I can tell I am doing
the same things in designing the portal in the layout that I did
in the previous apps.
In Browse mode I can see the "child" records at the portal
location in the layout and I can add additional "child" records
under the parent records. The portal was set up to show 4 records.
If I add a 5th record, the 1st child record disappears from view
at the top as the records appear to be scrolling upwards.
I assume there is some formatting option that controls the display
of the full portal (of the specified number of lines) and the
scroll bar, but I have been trying the online help, searching the
"Missing Manual" guide for Filemaker, and just plain playing
around with various options, but can't seem to find it.
Can someone point me in the right direction.
Thanks.
Glenn Mahler
Boonton, NJ
