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
