Comments on: Pseudoportals with Alternating Fill http://fmcollective.com/2007/08/29/pseudoportals-with-alternating-fill/ Syndicating the best FileMaker blogs Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:44:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Peter http://fmcollective.com/2007/08/29/pseudoportals-with-alternating-fill/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Peter Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:19:20 +0000 http://fmcollective.com/2007/08/29/pseudoportals-with-alternating-fill/#comment-88 Thank you for pointing that out. The invoice example isn't actually one I use. Typically, this technique comes in handy when I need to arbitrarily balance the related records into multiple columns, which is tricky (okay, tricky for me) using FMs multi-column print controls. The other issue involves having data from multiple relationships. I'm working on a problem right now that requires showing sliding portal rows from two separate relationships side by side. Not sure how I would do that in a child table. Thank you for pointing that out.

The invoice example isn’t actually one I use. Typically, this technique comes in handy when I need to arbitrarily balance the related records into multiple columns, which is tricky (okay, tricky for me) using FMs multi-column print controls.

The other issue involves having data from multiple relationships. I’m working on a problem right now that requires showing sliding portal rows from two separate relationships side by side. Not sure how I would do that in a child table.

]]> By: uLearnIT http://fmcollective.com/2007/08/29/pseudoportals-with-alternating-fill/comment-page-1/#comment-87 uLearnIT Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:36:16 +0000 http://fmcollective.com/2007/08/29/pseudoportals-with-alternating-fill/#comment-87 The text element down the right side of the invoice can be achieved in a layout from the child table. You can add a sub-summary part that will not be used so that you can create space. Then add the text object so that it starts in the header part. With creative use of the conditional formatting you can also achieve alternating row colouring too. ;-) I have a sample file if you want to have a look. Cheers, David The text element down the right side of the invoice can be achieved in a layout from the child table. You can add a sub-summary part that will not be used so that you can create space. Then add the text object so that it starts in the header part.

With creative use of the conditional formatting you can also achieve alternating row colouring too. ;-) I have a sample file if you want to have a look.

Cheers, David

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