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Re: Value Not Displayed in Portal

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On 2018-08-17 19:40:05 +0000, Charles H. Sampson said:

> Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
> 
>> I have a layout containing a portal with two rows. By the nature of the
>> database, the table for the layout has at most two related records.
>> 
>> For one field of the related table, only one value is shown, the value
>> in the first row. Other fields display properly, a value in each row.
>> 
>> Any ideas? Anything I should check that I either left out or didn't
>> think to do?
> 
> Sorry to be late in following up on this, but I went on vacation and
> just got back to checking USENET, after catching up with tons of mail
> and email.
> 
> It turns out that everybody was right (no surprise). The misfiring field
> was slightly out of the portal. Once I fixed that, all is well.
> 
> I "discovered' this by shrinking the size of the field's font, then
> shrinking the size to the field itself. It was then easy to make sure
> that the field lay within the portal and everything worked fine. The
> interesting effect was that when I enlarged to field back to its
> original size, it stayed within the portal. Enlarging the font back to
> its original size and all now works as I wanted it to.
> 
> As always, thanks to all who helped.

Most likely when you re-enlarged the Field you didn't make it exactly 
the same height as before, so it still fitted withint the first Portal 
row.

Even if a field is 1 pixel too big or 1 pixel overlapping the borders 
of first Portal row it can cause this kind of issue, so you must make 
sure the borders of the fields are all within the borders of the Portal 
row.

Unfortunately FileMaker's zoom  / magnify feature is a little bit 
flakey, so zooming in to 500% (or whatever) to check the positions can 
help, but can't fully be trusted.

The best option is to add the Fields using in the window that appears 
when first creating the Portal so FileMaker positions them 
automatically, but obviously you sometimes do need to later add other 
Fields or stretch Fields longer than the default size.

Helpful Harry  :o)

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