Tabpanel vs Portal problem

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Hi all,

This may be a stupid question…

I want to create a company form with a list of related people on it, clicking a persons name takes you to the detail record of that person. I do this in FileMaker all the time.

Two ways of doing this:

  1. If I add the list of people as a tab-panel, with the tabs hidden, I can add a button on the people form showin in the tab panel to go to the detail form for that person. Works fine.

  2. If I add the list of people as portal and make the person’s name into a button to do the same, I always end up on the detail record of the first person in the people list :-(.

My “gotoperson” script is defined in the company form. The problem is that when I try to use

company_to_people.person_id

in the script I get the first one, not the company_to_people.person_id of the person I clicked on.

Should I just forget about portals and always use tab panels?

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Hi Christian

I always use Tab Panels and have a similar setup to your requirement.

Tab Panel on Company Layout shows list of Contacts/People through a Company_PK_to_People_Company_PK relationship.

Clicking on a line in the People list in the Tab Panel sets People_PK into Global_Curr_People and displays that Persons full details in a ShowForminDialog using relationship Global_Curr_People_to_People_PK.

Probably a more elegant way to do it but works fine for me.

HTH

Graham Greensall
Worxinfo Ltd

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Hi Graham,

thanks for the advice, I will stick to using tab-panels.

For your info, I have a generic gotorelatedrecord function in an abstract navigation module which takes a table name and a pk. All my goto’s methods consist of a single line of code calling this funtion.

I planning to use this module for all menus, searches and navigation within all my projects. Later, this will allow me implement my own backtrack by only changing the navigation module :slight_smile: Servoy - You’ve got the power!