Swiftic is a website builder software that helps many business owners develop mobile portals to promote their business and to engage customers. I reached out to the other filemaker developers at soliant, and i got a great sample file from ross johnson. I have a screen shot showing the portal setup dialog which shows sort portal records checked because i sorted by first name. Using global fields to filter portals linkedin learning. May 15, 2018 well, maybe you cant get excited about them, but we at appworks can, and ill tell you why.
The level of expected user interaction just might not be there for your solution. One would be to place a button in each portal row and set it to use the go to related records command to display the related prints in a new window. 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. Cascading portals v2 for filemaker nightwing enterprises. Filemaker pro determines which starting point to use based on the path of relationships between two tables in the relationship graph. Many times, the script would go to the wrong portal for any of the scripted actions. Filemaker repeating fields to portals rows 2 thepracticalba. In this article, ill explain what masterdetail is, how to create read more about filemaker 17 portals for masterdetail layouts. You may want to display just one or two fields from a related table, like showing. Nightwing enterprises filemaker pro custom development and consulting. Check out their high and weak points and decide which software is a better choice for your company.
Brian combined the power of json a filemaker 16 addition with executesql and one of the least used but very powerful features of. Working with portals displaying related data filemaker. The complete relational database design with filemaker pro course has a total duration of 2 hours and 32 minutes, and explores some of the. The best feature in filemaker pro advanced 17 may be the new portal based on the current table occurrences found set. Technically a portal can only display records from one table. These tended to be more complex and difficult to build, and they had some serious limitations that can now be transcended with filemaker 11 portal filters as outlined in this article. For example, if you look onscreen,were looking at a layout thats based onthe customer table. Masterdetail is a very common and powerful ui design pattern. Portals in filemaker are primarily use to display related data in the context of a parent record. Thus far in our examples, weve workedwith showing child records in a portal in the context of a parent.
They wanted a script to have one portal to pass information to another portal in the same layout. Portals and calculations filemaker pro 11 solutions. Some people have multiple types of products like parts and services to put on their invoice. So the idea here is that, we put the portal in the context of customer to showrelated child records from a child.
Find answers to portals and calculations filemaker pro 11 from the expert community at experts exchange. Often they will make multiple tables for this but then they run into trouble when trying to make a. See filemaker odbc and jdbc guide for extensive information on how you can use filemaker software as a data source for odbc and jdbc applications. Dynamic portal filters with multiple criteria filemaker. How to copy data to one field from multiple portal records. Host a filemaker data api solution complete all of the steps in prepare databases for filemaker data api access. 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. This allows us to easily create masterdetail layouts. Enhance your filemaker portal columns filemaker pro tips. Because portals are used all the time in filemaker development, and there are two huge new timesaving options in the filemaker 17 portal creation dialog box show records from current table and show records from new addon table. As a filemaker developer for hire, i run into solutions created by someone within the company or a previous developer for hire that use repeating fields instead of portals. Well, maybe you cant get excited about them, but we at appworks can, and ill tell you why. The key thing to understand about portals is that filemaker just provides you with the bare minimum.
Maintable displays records from relatedtable using a portal. Kudos to brian ouimette of for creating a solution to a problem that has flummoxed filemaker and filemaker developers for years. It is a featurerich solution that solves their problem through a simple and automated system that makes it possible to design and customize a unique application that is perfect for their business needs. Often they will make multiple tables for this but then. This filemaker tutorial is going to show you how create a multilevel nested portal. Simply tell filemaker pro advanced to show a single field from a related table. May 15, 2018 one of filemaker 17s most exciting new features is the ability to configure portals to display records from the current table. For example, assume we have a filemaker pro file that has two tables maintable and relatedtable. Filemaker portal in a portal, 4d printing filemakerprogurus.
So for example weve got the customer details here on screen. Position the crosshair pointer on the layout where you want the portal to begin, then. Agile software development is a relationshiporiented, lightweight, iterative process that results in the cyclical delivery of tested working software. Sync two portals by pctechtv, january 19, 2014 container. And what weve got here on the bottomare two portals that are showing related order records. You will learn how to use filemaker pro software to. Use the filemaker api for php, which provides an objectoriented php interface to filemaker pro databases, to integrat e your filemaker data into a php web application. May 29, 2016 filemaker pro 12 two portals duration. So the customer table is the parent tablein this relationship, and the order. The basic idea is that a single screen or interface displays both a. If you need to join two tables then you have to do this manually or change the design and use one table instead of two since you want them in the same portal, then the tables are similar to some degree. Inline scrollbar options for portals and fields in filemaker pro. Two years later microsoft discontinued its program. How to use portals in filemaker pro tutorial youtube.
Use it as a jumpingoff point for development to get a semicustom software solution. Using portals to connect to data more than one table away. This is a layout thats based on the customer context, and here were showingrelated data from a child table. Filemaker became a crossplatform app with mac and windows versions in 1992. Dynamic portal filtering while you type filemaker inspirations. If you have any questions about how to use these advanced tools or any other new features included in filemaker 17, please contact our team. The filemaker odbc and jdbc client drivers support all of the sql statements described in this reference. Were happy to help your team determine the best way to leverage them within your filemaker. Sometimes its 2 products, but sometimes its as much as 15.
Perfect for those seeking a featurerich order and customer management app for the goods and services they sell and track. If you place a tab control in a portal it will not display correctly. Filemaker 14 introduced better control of scrollbars for both portals and text fields, as you can now create inline style scrollbars that only appear when appropriate. Cris is a filemaker certified developer in all versions, as well as a filemaker professional trainer and one of 70 partnerlevel filemaker business alliance members in the world. Portals relationships page 2 the original filemaker.
At this point the only thing left to do is add it to the portal. Selecting the correct filemaker portal in a script. The exbiztracker is a jumpstart filemaker pro template that comes readymade with the basic features and functions most businesses need. There is no one agile methodology, but rather a variety of development methodologies that all embrace a similar flexible approach.
Filemaker multiple portals on one print invoice youtube. To make the line two pixels wide, choose 2 pt from the line tool popup menu d. This tutorial shows you how you can manage your information in filemaker pro. Odbc or jdbc, and process the data retrieved from the filemaker database solution.
Nightwing enterprises cascading portals v2 for filemaker. Noashoba had three major revisions of filemaker before the company was acquired by apple to become part of its claris software division in 1986, at which point the software was renamed filemaker ii. It is a rapid development software platform comprising filemaker server, filemaker advanced and filemaker pro, with versions of each which run on either os x. Its thus possible to create two portals side by side, based on the same table. Jul 23, 2017 some people have multiple types of products like parts and services to put on their invoice. Jul 04, 2006 filemaker does not support nesting of portals, so youre going to have to find a different way to display the information you have described. Screen design for multiple devices and contexts presents some interesting. Hello i have created a database for a hospital clinic that contains 3 tables. Filemaker 17 portals for masterdetail layouts luminfire. A portal can be configured to display one or more fields from the related table. Filemaker server provides two custom web publishing technologies. Aug 27, 2014 working with filemaker portals part 1 don clark. August 27, 2014 a very nice technique by michael rocharde to allow creation of portal records automatically in a portal, but hiding the extra row that shows using filemaker s conditional hiding options.
If desired, you can configure filemaker pro to copy the data from related records displayed in the portal and paste the data into another field. Refer to working with related tables and files in the filemaker help for more information on relationships. For example, take a basic portal, select a given row and hit the delete key. Beyond the data management and presentation aspects of the technique shown in this demo, the filemaker conditional visibility of objects is used to show how records can be added to a portal without the unsightly or distracting appearance of an orphan empty row at the bottom of each portal. Join cris ippolite for an indepth discussion in this video, using global fields to filter portals, part of filemaker. If you want the portal to show all images related to the patient, you must define the portal to show records from the images table in order to display the data from the corresponding record in the aneurysms table, use either calculation fields defined in the images table, or place another occurrence of the aneurysms table on the graph like this. A person sent me an email about their troubles scripting portals.
A little filemaker pro 12 tutorial showing the technique to put two portals on a layout where you can select a record in the first portal and then. Thus far in our examples, weve workedwith showing child records in a portalin the context of a parent. Move this third line up to obscure the first two lines along the edge of the detail view button e. Filemaker 17 has a great new feature for creating masterdetail layouts. Filemaker portals are great for displaying information in the appropriate context. Define a calculation that evaluates to true for the portal. Im also using filemaker 14s script step for refresh portal which works pretty fast. Portals display data from related fields in rows, one record in each row. Dec 08, 2016 it is a rapid development software platform comprising filemaker server, filemaker advanced and filemaker pro, with versions of each which run on either os x or windows and the newly announced. Unfortunately, they dont always provide the most intuitive user experience when newcomers are learning how to enter data in a filemaker solution. Filemaker pro basics welcome to the filemaker pro tutorial. Jan 23, 2014 repeating fields were the predecessor to portals in the filemaker pro 2. How to combine the same field in multiple records into one. With a very simple script 4 steps, a custom function and a script trigger, you can search data in your filemaker portals the same way you search for music in itunes.
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