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Re: Formatting Portals

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On 2018-02-19 23:37:01 +0000, Charles H. Sampson said:
> Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> wrote:
>> On 2/13/2018 10:23 AM, Charles H. Sampson wrote:
>>> 
>>> Among the problems I'm having with portals is formatting. Again, I did
>>> all of this in FMP8, although I no longer remember how.
>>> 
>>> How do I control the height of a portal's rows?
>> 
>> Select the portal and grab the center bottom handle and slide up/down.
>> A tooltip will show you the actual row height.
> 
> What is "a tooltip"? The only way I've been able to control row height
> so far is to specify the height of the portal as the product of the
> desired row height and the number of rows.

That is exactly how you control a Portal's height. There's no point in 
being able to make a Portal that is taller than the number of rows you 
want - what would you use the extra space for?  :o)




>>> How do I put borders around the rows of a portal?
>> 
>> For rows, you can set borders by first selecting the portal, then on the
>> 3rd tab of Inspector, click the dropdown that says "portal, and instead
>> select portal row to change formatting for the rows vs the overall portal.
> 
> Wow! That's straightforward, isn't it?

Unfortunately nowhere near as straightforward as it used to be.  :o(

Each new version of FileMaker is becoming messier and more complicated. 
The last "good" version was probably before they introduced the silly 
Relationship "tree" diagram nonsense.


Helpful Harry  :o)

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Formatting Portals csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-02-13 10:23 -0800
  Re: Formatting Portals Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2018-02-13 11:09 -0800
    Re: Formatting Portals csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-02-19 15:37 -0800
      Re: Formatting Portals Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-02-20 13:46 +1300
        Re: Formatting Portals Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-02-22 10:08 +1300
          Re: Formatting Portals csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-02-22 16:26 -0800
            Re: Formatting Portals Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-02-23 15:29 +1300
      Re: Formatting Portals dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-02-20 14:06 +1300

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