Masterdetail is a very common and powerful ui design pattern. The answer is to use one of the aggregate family of functions called count. I dont want to see the actual items listed, just a number under or next to each header. About half only have one resident, the other half has from 2 to 8 residents. All you need to do is choose a portal row number from the value list and click the button next. Count of filtered portal records sign in to follow this. How to go to a specific portal row a filemaker miscellany. Unfortunately, they dont always provide the most intuitive user experience when newcomers are learning how to enter data in a filemaker. Is there a way to eliminate blank rows from a portal in a filemaker report. You can use exit after last within a loop to exit the loop after the last portal row. Quit filemaker pro 12 or filemaker pro 12 advanced.
Originally, this example used the go to portal row by field. I was recently asked to sort portal columns for a client, and i figured there has to be a newer and cooler technique out there to accomplish portal sort than when i did it last. I want to get running totals or summaries in my portal rows for number fields. Record number row number of attach the script to a button or field in the portal or an invisible rectangle or grouping of fields that take up the entire portal row. Returns a number representing the record that has focus in the current found set. How can i do a count calculated field but with conditions. Conditional formatting is a great feature of the new filemaker. If you set a portal to slide up, it allows you to slide through unused portal rows. Cloudcontainer is easy to set up and use as a replacement for native container fields with no plugins or additional server software to install or maintain. A portal can be configured to display one or more fields from the related table. If the portal object name is unknown, nothing is returned. Sometimes filemaker s builtin indicator for what row you are on in a list can be a little lacking. The entire question is how do i get a count of all the rows in a portal.
It can be used for more flexible printed output or showing information from multiple tables within one single portal or. For example, on our invoices details layout, yousee that we have a portal on screen here. Going to a portal row by the contents of a field can be scripted. The portal is sorted by a number field which auto enters a serial number. 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. How to copy data to one field from multiple portal records. Ive got a long walklist of addresses and a related file with all the voters registered at that address.
In layout mode, you can use the insert record number symbol menu command, or you can just type it using the text tool. I know its annoying but the portal filtering, introduced in filemaker 11, is sort of an illusion rather than a true structural phenomenon. Is there a function to get the last portal row number. One of filemaker 17s most exciting new features is the ability to configure portals to display records from the current table.
Effectively this means every new row is inserted at the bottom. This software updates filemaker pro 12 or filemaker pro 12 advanced to version 12. This is a very basic filemaker technique but is a very popular how do i. When no portal row contains the focus, this function returns 0. I could later set something up to change back to the search layout with the set constraints. Learn how to adaptively delete a row in any filemaker 16 portal using a single script. During conversion to filemaker 9, this was automatically updated to go to row by calculation. Count of filtered portal records filemaker pro 11 the. Filemaker 17 has a great new feature for creating masterdetail layouts. Optimized way for counting total no of record in portal in filemaker. The basic idea is that a single screen or interface displays both a. The count function, according to the filemaker help, returns the number of values that are nonempty and valid. Within a portal, that will evaluate to the portal row number of the record. 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.
What i like to use is aggregate functionsas they relate to. You can also use the row number field to relocate the last portal row visited, using a scripted button. There must be a relationsip between the line items table and its self based on the primary table key. Cloudcontainer provides containerlike functionality in your filemaker database along with the virtually unlimited storage and performance of amazon s3.
Filemaker 17 portals for masterdetail layouts luminfire. It wasnt widely known or used until bruce robertson started promoting its use in ways which were previously not envisioned. Doubleclick the appropriate filemaker pro or filemaker pro advanced 12. Hi, i have a client database that has a portal linked to an accounts database based on the client number. Enhance your filemaker portal columns filemaker pro tips. Besides the object name for the portal, at least one object in the portal has to have an object name, too. It will give you a count of the number of a times a related field has data within it. With the addition of the current found set portal, filemaker has added the ability to easily create one of the most common trends in modern applications the master detail. Alternatively, each related record in the portal could contain an unstored calculation field set to getrecordnumber. Duplicating a portal rowrecord in filemaker solutions. The current found set portal is a portal that displays a. My problem that i got a button and i want to hide it based on another fiels is empty or not.
This means for example, that if you run the count function on a relationship of 500,000 records, then every single one of those 500,000 records must be scanned and validated before the total can be known. By daniel wood, 15 december 2010 filemaker provides us with the ability to create related records directly from a portal. Ive tried to figure out the new report dialog wizard to no success, and not quite sure how to feed a summary field. If you have data like attendance data in a portal you might want to be able to summarize some of that data. Filemaker developers blog subsummarys within portals pt i. This calculation will display which portal row a record is based on a pirmary table and line items table. Display the running count of records in a portal, and summarize number. For example, there are functions that could count,or add together, and even average different sets of data. A portal displays the data from related records in rows with one row in a portal representing one related record in the related table. But for all of the posts i read, and all of the videos i see, some simple tricks still get by me. How do you get the count of the related records in a filtered portal. Go to portal row next goes to the next record exit loop if global counter 7 exits the record when the counter hits 7 end loop exit record request exits the current record and the portal, so we can see our results.
Is there a way to count the number of records in a portal got that part figured out in a sum field and account for if a record has a specific field. Brilliant scoops curated technology news with a focus on. I am trying to find the fastest way to calculate the number of records in a portal. Creating calendars with portal filters in filemaker pro how to create. Getting portals to doshow what you want can be frustrating. Due to a fix involving certain unicode characters, it is highly recommended that you update filemaker pro, filemaker pro advanced, filemaker server, and filemaker go to the latest available versions. Calculates the total number of visible portal rows not the number of records shown in these rows. The portal will display one row for each find request made, just like it would if you were creating new records in a table. Filemaker portals are great for displaying information in the appropriate context. You know which record youre interested in, and you have the id of the record stashed in a global field, but. Applying active state formatting to portal rows and list views.
This is a great and easy way to generate records without the need to script the process, and for that reason it is a popular technique among both new users and. The virtual list technique, as its come to be known, has been possible since the introduction of global variables with filemaker 8. Exit after last tells filemaker pro to exit the script when it reaches the last portal row. The navigation part of the script which takes me to the selected row works fine.
In this article, ill explain what masterdetail is, how to create read more about filemaker 17 portals for masterdetail layouts. 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. 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. Related records from another table can be displayed using a filemaker pro layout object called a portal. When a user clicks an arrow a simple script increases or decreases the number in the sort field to move the row up or down. This can have some interesting, yet subtle, effects on your user interface. Making creation of records in a portal more user friendly.
For example, a portal contains 20 records, but displays only 3. This allows us to easily create masterdetail layouts. I reached out to the other filemaker developers at soliant, and i got a great sample file from ross johnson. In a portal, you need to be able to highlight a given record, and ensure that the portal row is visible. Read and accept the displayed license agreement, then proceed as directed. Script looping filemaker portal rows thepracticalba. The count function only work for static portal, and will account for all related records regardless of the portal being filtered. For example, you can get the total of all related records, the smallest or largest related record, or find the standard deviation of all related records in your portal. By calculation moves to the row number that is the result of the calculation you create, or to the row number specified in a dialog. I use a portal in the first table to enter the leave details leave dates, paydays, hours, etc. In filemaker, you now have the ability to not onlyapply formatting to a portal, but also the individual portal rows.
I want a script that takes me to a portal row and then duplicates the portal row. Filemaker, portals, techniques, tips leave a comment often, i need to show the number of records shown in a given portal. Highlighting portal rows features such as highlighting selected portal rows provide an instant indication of what is selected or where the user is. The theory is to move up a row we take the mean of the two rows above, to move down. 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 record is selected within each portal. However, if an entry in a portal row is one line but the row can handle two lines, the portal does not slide through the unused space. 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. Place that bit of text in the portal, and youll see your running count of records. Curated technology news with a focus on filemaker and wordpress. With this feature, you can create a new type of portal this is a bit different than the regular portals we are all used to using. Only the one extra row has this, the rest are blank as they should be.
How to show the number of portal rows a filemaker miscellany. You can also find minimum, maximum,or the variants of standard deviation. This may or may not be the same as a found count, or total record count when using portal filtering, different portals can show. Deleting portal rows in filemaker john mark osborne. I have a portal displaying data with a delete button for each row.
This example is the most basic use of scripting an action from one portal row to the next. Narrator as the name implies, an aggregate functionin filemaker pro is used for calculating varioussummarizations of sets of data. Returns the number of valid, nonblank values in a field. Filemaker s portal setup options enable you to specify a starting row, how many rows tall a portal should be, whether to offer a vertical scrollbar, and whether to alternate row colors between that which you set for the portal itself and an alternative color.
The accounts database contains all the payments a client has paid along with all the charges they accrue. When i use the count field function in a calculation to show how many records are in the portal, it takes some time for fm to summarize the field and count the records. We generally use count function for counting total no of record in a related table, but it takes lot of time when we have large number of data. The question on one or more of the filemaker forums was asked and answered. Place the related summary field, count of, in the single row filtered portal.
Fortunately, there is a solution to draw the users focus to the row they are one. Dave at a filemaker miscellany found three possible solutions for this particular problem the requirement in a portal, you need to be able to highlight a given record, and ensure that the portal row is visible. The problem is that the row directly after the last row of data shows the delete button, even tho it has no data in the portal row. I love to learn, and one of the benefits of writing a blog is learning so much from all of the wonderful, sharing developers in the filemaker world.
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