FileMaker Pro 11: Advanced Tutorials
Miscellaneous Techniques / Portal Resize
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One of the little-know facts about the Auto Resize Feature is you have control over whether a portal adds additional rows or the existing rows enlarge in height. So in order to demonstrate this, we're going to go ahead and reduce to 75 percent and you can see how currently this particular portal adds rows. Well, it's actually very easy to change this to have the rows grow larger. For instance, maybe you have a Notes Field and you want to reveal more of the notes. Typically I think you want to add more rows but there are situations where you want them to enlarge in height. So we'll show this, go to the Layout Mode, go to the Invoices Tab and all we have to do that's different than what we have and let's review what we do have right now, if we click on the portal we'll see that we show Object Info and show the Position, we'll see that the portal's set to resize in all directions but inside the portal each one of these objects is set to possibly resize width-wise, although none of them here are, we could have them resize width-wise but that wouldn't make it grow as far as number of rows. What we have to do is set at least one of those objects to grow in height. Once we do that, it doesn't matter which object, we can do all of them if we want and once we do that, you'll see that now what we get is a growth in the height of those portal rows. In fact, we'll probably have to go down even farther to see that. So you can see how those rows, as we get a higher height in our window, they actually gain size or height and so you can fit a Notes Field in there and have it reveal information. If we go back into Layout Mode and set that (unintelligible) that field that we've set to now grow height-wise, now we go back to Browse Mode. You'll see again now at this point we get more rows. They don't grow in height. So that can be useful. It's a little-known technique or a little-know feature and so if you know this, you can really make these portals work the way you want them to.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | FileMaker Pro 11: Advanced |
| Author: | John Mark Osborne |
| SKU: | 34140 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-36-4 |
| Release Date: | 2010-07-09 |
| Duration: | 14.5 hrs / 159 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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