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Navigation Portal
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I am using FMP 10. I have a Student table that lists loads of data about the student including:
- Membership Expiration Date
- Balance Owed
- Student Name
- ListCalc (which = Get (CurrentDate) - 60 )
To ease navigation for the non-Filemaker savvy, I have currently created a portal that displays the first 3 fields from all records whose Expiration > ListCalc. To do this, I had to create another table that imports the data from these fields and consistently updates them. The relationship between them is that ListCalc in the Student table must be < the Expiration on the List table. Then, on the Student layout, I created a portal that looks at this List Tables records. Once the name field in the portal is clicked, it triggers FM to find that student's records.
This seems to be a waste, since I'm simply duplicating data that is already there. I have tried to create the same relationship simply between Student and another instance of itself, but the portal does not show any records. I can either show all the records via an "x" relationship, or none. This is essentially an attempt to filter the portal results, but nothing I try gives any results other than ALL or NONE.
You'll need to find a way to make it static data. One option is to modify your system so that scripts update the static date whenever a field or record that is used to determine that date is modified. Script triggers can be very handy for that purpose.