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Creating and managing layouts and reports
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4. Select record options for the portal.
5. Select format options for the portal.
6. Click OK.
7. In the Add Fields to Portal dialog box, choose the fields that you want to appear in the
portal, and click OK.
Tip You can drag objects, such as a related field, onto the first row of an existing portal to add it
to the portal.
Selecting and working with portals
You can resize, edit, and delete portals in Layout mode.
To select a portal:
• With the arrow pointer, click the border of the portal, or any other area within the portal that
doesn't contain a field or object.
See Selecting objects.
To Select
Sort the records in the portal Sort portal records, and click Specify. In the Sort
dialog box, choose the fields by which to sort the
portal records, and click OK.
Filter the records in the portal Filter portal records, and click Specify. In the
Specify Calculation dialog box, define a formula for
a calculation to filter the portal records, and click
OK.
Allow related records to be deleted from the
related table (in Browse mode)
Allow deletion of portal records
Display a scroll bar at the right side of the
portal, with which users can see (and enter)
more records than are visible in the portal at
one time
Show vertical scroll bar
Reset the scroll bar to display the portal’s first
record when you exit the current record
Reset scroll bar when exiting record (or, clear
this option so the scroll bar does not reset)
To Do this
Specify the initial related record to display in
the first row of the portal
In the Initial row box, type the row number.
Specify the number of rows (records) to display
in the portal
For Number of rows, type a number.
Change the fill (color) of a portal, display a
different background in alternating portal rows
(for contrast and easy identification), or display
a different background color for the selected
portal row
See Formatting portals.