malice Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Is there a way to have it so if their is 10 records for a particular thing it will make the portal 10 rows long? Just aksing because I trying to make a printable report, but it has all the empty / extra rows in the portl and just doesnt look that great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Schaub Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Preintable records from a portal should access by GTRR SRRO (Go to Related Records0 [show Related Reords Only] This grabs all the related records from the portal and brings you to the table(file) they belong to. From there you should navigate to a list view or SubSummary to sort and/or tabulate the related records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FileMakin' Tom Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 This is because you are printing your report from the file (table) which has the portal. Portals are for viewing, not printing as a rule. To print the data, simply go to the file in which the portal records reside and prepare your report in that file. Then set your script in the other file to call for the related records desired, switch to the file with the records and preview/print your report from there. This allows one to have only as many lines appear as there are related records. Be well . . . Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malice Posted April 7, 2005 Author Share Posted April 7, 2005 okay... sounds... confusing not too sure what you mean but will have a look around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malice Posted April 8, 2005 Author Share Posted April 8, 2005 how would you do the script? also, would it be assigned to the button that takes you to the report page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 Read up on the Go to related Record script step. It's the enabling technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malice Posted April 11, 2005 Author Share Posted April 11, 2005 I can get it to show one record, how do I make it show a list of records? I am not using a list veiw report its got records from mutliple tables i.e it will have the section emploee details which shows name b'day etc, then it will have a part for vehicle, which shows what car they have, then it will have their assets, which doesnt list. the only thing seperating the sections is a drawn line, they are not in different parts... Kind of getting sick of filemakers non easyness and what seems to be limited use.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarten Witberg Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 [ QUOTE ] I am not using a list view report it's got records from mutliple tables i.e it will have the section emploee details which shows name b'day etc, then it will have a part for vehicle, which shows what car they have, then it will have their assets, which doesnt list. [/ QUOTE ] Is your original problem to get the assets to print as a report? I am afraid that your question is not very clear. Please post again and tell us exactly what you are trying to achieve. So far I understand there is an employee record, with a related vehicle record, and multiple related assets records. Which version do you use? (v5.5-6, v7) kjoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malice Posted April 14, 2005 Author Share Posted April 14, 2005 I've done it a weird way now, I made an list / report and used the body section for the asset list then just put all the other stuff into a leading grand summary part. i'll have to upload the fm file when i finished with it so you can see what i meant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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