Someone else configured our FMP database, and i was trying to tweak
the width of a portal, and I somehow messed up the print formatting -
I am hoping someone might be able to help me!
There are two portals one above the other, the top with 12 lines and
the bottom with 30 lines, each with a created header row for each.
same manner as the text.
....
I would be most grateful for any advise or nods in the right
direction.
Thank you in advance -
Kris
Kris,
My advice is to not use portals for printing. It's not what they're
good at. Portals are really good at displaying data, but not printing
it.
You should be basing the layout for the report from the table the
records in the portal are showing from, using summary parts for
headers.
Re: Sliding portals ... I have told clients and other developers many times that portals aren't intended for printing, but I am encouraged that FM seems to be slowly making them more manageable. ...related records to a single Text field, and then print that instead of ... List that obtains it's values from the Related Calculation field,... (comp.databases.filemaker)
Re: problems with sliding ...printing with a second run worked fine. ...Overlapping... That's very likely your problem - portals are not meant to be printed ... print from the related file itself, ... (comp.databases.filemaker)
Re: Sliding portals ... portal in a layout intended for printing (at least not if you care what ... specified for portals and it doesn't work badly. ...related records to a single Text field, and then print that instead of ... List that obtains it's values from the Related Calculation field,... (comp.databases.filemaker)
Sliding portals ... I have always subscribed to the notion that one shouldn't include a portal in a layout intended for printing (at least not if you care what it looks like when it prints). ... The ability to slide portal rows up when printing has been on my wish list for a long time, and I very much appreciate that FM seems to be thinking about it too, since I find that versions 8 and 9 will allow sliding to be specified for portals and it doesn't work badly. ... (comp.databases.filemaker)
Re: Sliding portals ... I have told clients and other developers many times that portals aren't intended for printing, but I am encouraged that FM seems to be slowly making them more manageable. ...related records to a single Text field, and then print that instead of ... List that obtains it's values from the Related Calculation field,... (comp.databases.filemaker)
