Another solution is to count the number of portal rows in the filter portal and use that as the number of found count after the portal has been filtered. Filemaker pro to php conversion using fmpro migrator. Have fun learning filemaker with thirty individual technique files covering important concepts in filemaker. Filemaker server does not restrict the number of networked filemaker pro clients. This is a virtual tour of the new, filemaker 17 portal features. Then have the script exit the record which will pop this new record to the top and then go to the first field in the row for user entry. Just click on a portal row and the context of the body part is changed to the selected row. Exit after last tells filemaker pro to exit the script when it reaches the last portal row. The value in the summary will change according to where the field is displayed, and in a portal, it will show the number of related recs shown in that portal. Adding buttons to a filemaker portal to jump to the related records.
In filemaker, showing distinct values in a portal can be accomplished in various ways. If a user navigates to a portal without selecting a specific portal row and without making an object active within a specific portal row, getactiveportalrownumber. Adding fields and other objects to a filemaker portal. No doubt it will be added to filemaker s many features, soon. Applying active state formatting to portal rows and list views. A if the function returns 1, the very first portal row is visible. Get field contents from clicked portal row sign in to follow this. Filemaker pro 17 advanced 17 0 6 600 x86x64 multilingual. In the example, we click a button and every day in the portal is moved to the next day of the week. This can be accomplished using get activeportalrownumber function create a text field foundresult in the parent table and make it global. You know which record youre interested in, and you have the id of the record stashed in a global field, but. Highlighting rows in filemaker lists or portals homebase. The question on one or more of the filemaker forums was asked and answered. If there are multiple windows open in the current database file, each window can have its own.
Returns the number of the portal row that has the focus. So, we end up with filemaker solutions which are littered with buttons on every list view row and every portal row. If there are multiple windows open in the current database file, each window can have its own portal row number value, but results are returned for only the foreground window. Nightwing enterprises doubleclick portal row selection. Place the related summary field, count of, in the single row filtered portal. After you use a delete portal row script step in filemaker webdirect, click anywhere on the layout or use a commit recordsrequests script step to commit the deletion. Finding data can be up to 40% faster as filemaker server sends less data across the network with fewer round trips. Calculates the total number of visible portal rows not the number of records shown in these rows. With the cursor blinking at me in the correct row, on implementing duplicate record from the menu to test the action, all records disappear from view in the portal and all other portals on the tab control go blank as well. So we are in the context of the customer table, as you see here, and then this portal will show invoices only related to this customer.
If a user navigates to a portal without selecting a specific portal row and without making an object active within a specific portal row, get activeportalrownumber returns row 0 rather than row 1. How do i get the value of a specified field in a specified. Portal sorting, part 2 filemakerhacks filemaker tips. Sometimes filemaker s builtin indicator for what row you are on in a list can be a little lacking. If this script step is used from an active portal row, and the portal s table is the related table, then the related record in that table is made current.
Based on requests from student of the philosophy of filemaker video series, this tutorials includes ten intermediate, ten advanced and ten expert tips and tricks to help you design better solutions in filemaker. Get field contents from clicked portal row filemaker pro. For example, a portal contains 20 records, but displays only 3. How to show the number of portal rows a filemaker miscellany.
Normally, the leave is during one pay period, but if it goes over a number of paydays i have a button in the portal row that duplicates the last row and adds 14 days a pay period to the payday of the duplicated record. Zoho creator offers many opportunities at prices more affordable than what filemaker offers. You can write scripts that go from portal row to portal row and perform a task. Duplicating a portal rowrecord in filemaker solutions. This button is linked to the delete portal row script step or goes to the related file, deletes the record and returns. But if youve tried to use a popover inside a portal, you may have noticed that embedded portals, tab. The demo file we are offering here requries no special layouts, no copying and pasting of. Onobjectkeystroke parsing html pdf perform script on server.
How do you get the count of the related records in a filtered portal. From dwayne wright pmp certified filemaker developer web. The portal inline progress bar, one of filemaker 15s new performance based features, brings with it the separation of a layouts non portal and portal rendering tasks. Well the portal row is for a song playlist and i have the portal rows with a button to move the song up or down in the portal rows for the song i want to play first or if i want to arrange the songs in a different play order but i want the numbers so when i print the list i have the songs numbered on the print out for one but also just to keep track so i can just look at the row and say i have. Filemaker introduced a new feature in filemaker 11 which allows us to specify a calculation to filter the records that appear in a portal. These tasks can range from the simple like in our example file to the very complex. Get anytime access to your data with 247 availability. Sure, you can use portals as theyre provided, and youll certainly get all the benefits. The difference is that it will specify the from user based on which portal row was clicked. In a portal, you need to be able to highlight a given record, and ensure that the portal row is visible. How to go to a specific portal row a filemaker miscellany. Be prepared to spend some time on this article from kevin franks. This is the same concept employed within the filemaker pro database in order to position the script step at the correct location on the relationship graph. The problem with this is that, in order to show the number of records in the portal, it has to be shown in the portal, and therefore on every portal row.
I have a layout with a portal from the same table, masterdetail. The navigation part of the script which takes me to the selected row works fine. Portal filtering was introduced in filemaker pro 11 and lets developers easily filter a portal by simply editing the portal setup you dont need to add unnecessary. Is there a way to eliminate blank rows from a portal in a filemaker report. This can have some interesting, yet subtle, effects on your user interface.
The portal text object this is the text object you placed in the portal under the messenger widget. Features such as highlighting selected portal rows provide an instant indication of what is selected or where the user is. When selecting the check box to filter portal records or clicking the specify button, we. The return value 5 means, the portal is scrolled so far down, that the first four portal rows are not visible anymore.
In filemaker, you now have the ability to not onlyapply formatting to a portal, but also the individual portal rows. In this implementation, the technique system is operable in filemaker 7 or filemaker 8 on both windows and mac os. I use a portal in the first table to enter the leave details leave dates, paydays, hours, etc. Since youre calling it a portal row, im assuming you have a portal to another table there on the layout. Id like to get the value of a specific field in that row and display it in another field via some calculation. Filemaker s online help has a very informative entry on the fieldtype function if you. Get greater performance over a wide area network wan with filemaker server 12. In this tutorial, i show how to do this using a selfrelationship combined with a portal filter using the getnthrecord field name. Robust scalability manage groups of filemaker pro users with reliable security and network performance. If we take a quick look here at the relationship graph, so heres where we are on this layout.
So for example, weve got a portal here that shows all the related invoices to this customer. The challenge, however, is to retain the power of filemaker s find features, yet present the results of the find in a portal on a view as form layout. So, if there is more than one sender, the user can. Limitedtime offer applies to the first charge of a new subscription. Script looping filemaker portal rows thepracticalba. Fortunately, there is a solution to draw the users focus to the row they are one. In combination with a calculation field, it can be used to highlight the row of a list. Getnthrecord related field of a related row in a portal from the expert community at experts exchange. The entire question is how do i get a count of all the rows in a portal. If the portal object name is unknown, nothing is returned. About half only have one resident, the other half has from 2 to 8 residents.
But in the meantime, heres a simple way to implement sortable portals in your current applications. Once again, make sure that any object you put into the first portal row fits within the row, otherwise it. However i cant figure out how to refer to the values in a specific row. The portal will display one row for each find request made, just like it would if you were creating new records in a table. Portal filtering is facilitated by a single recursive custom function, and the portal selection technique uses a single script with a calculation to provide the corresponding row highlighting. When no portal row contains the focus, this function returns 0. Filemaker pro 18 advanced 18 0 3 317 mac torrent download net. This is a very basic filemaker technique but is a very popular how do i.
You can use exit after last within a loop to exit the loop after the last portal row. For example, on our invoices details layout, yousee that we have a portal on screen here. Listing of filemaker tutorial videos about portals. The proper approach is to place an invisible rectangle under the objects inside the row border and make this a button with go to related record single step. Set the button to perform a similar insert calculated result operation as the messenger widget. Along with its sister papers the observer and the guardian weekly, the guardian is part of the guardian media group, owned by the scott trust. Here is a quick and easily modifiable script to populate a filemaker portal from a value list. Conditional formatting is a great feature of the new filemaker. Filemaker developers blog subsummarys within portals pt i.
It was founded in 1821 as the manchester guardian, and changed its name in 1959. When it comes to supporting unique rows within multiple portals on the same layout, you need to find a way to track each portal independently and know which. Rightclick on the portal row and click button setup choose go to related record under specify, select the table which contains the related record you want to go to select the layout that you would like to display the related record on. In the datatab of the inspector, enter the following formula for hide object when. You can also browse the table of contents or search for a topic. Filemaker goto layout script steps are used by fmpro migrator to determine the correct php application model to use for instructions which follow. Sorting portals, the fastest way iso filemaker magazine.
You can develop solutions for your business requirements, automate recurring tasks, analyze your data with reports, and do a lot more for a lot less. Example 1 asks if the user wants to delete the portal row if a product is discontinued. Using this method you will go to the first record in the portal regardless of what row you click on. This makes it simply to filter a portal, get the list of filtered ids which can then be used in a multikey relationship to group those filtered records for further processing. To hide the button when the row is not the active portal row, select the button.
Protect your data with scheduled live backups, which run even while your databases are in use. Making creation of records in a portal more user friendly. Enhanced and new themes the existing 40 themes have been updated to add. First, place the label inside the portal, ensuring it is placed behind the field. Go to recordrequestpage first loop set field parentglobalid. In addition, when searching in a field formatted as a value list or when filtering information in a most portals, data will normally be retrieved in.
Form fields from second portal not updating filemaker community. In this example, using one of filemaker s builtin templates for projects, i imagined a scenario where a project had a standard set of steps that needed to be generated whenever a new project was begun. Instant messaging in filemaker no plugins or internet. Filemakerhacks filemaker tips, techniques and more. The trust was created in 1936 to secure the financial and editorial independence of the guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard. Revealing the current state of your interface is of great benefit to users of your solutions. Highlighting rows in filemaker lists or portals homebase software. These pages show the basic steps for instantiating the filemaker database object, setting its key properties, and. Besides the object name for the portal, at least one object in the portal has to have an object name, too. Populating a portal from a value list homebase software. Because everything you place inside a portal will potentially show on every row, we need to hide this label on every row except the last row, heres how. Screen shot and demo have been updated to reflect this. The popover object in filemaker presents developers with a wealth of new design opportunities a number of which were discussed in this article. I have a portal that is autosorted so that a specific row of interest comes out on top.
Filemaker 8 offers some radical new technologies which facilitate a new solution to this old problem. Ive got a long walklist of addresses and a related file with all the voters registered at that address. If the portal s table is not the related table, the first related record in the found set is made current. Lesson 1 details the essentials for using the filemaker api for php in two php files. Dividing it by 2 will always result in a smaller number then the current record thus moving our record up. Here, i have placed a label on the last row which tells the user to enter the name of a new contact into this row.