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
