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Creating and managing layouts and reports
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To resize a portal row:
1. Select the portal by clicking the border of the portal, or any other area within the portal that
doesn't contain a field or object.
You see selection handles at each corner of the first portal row.
2. Drag a selection handle.
The first row resizes and each additional row resizes to match the first row.
3. If necessary, resize the field objects and any other objects that appear within the portal.
To change the record options or display options for a portal:
• Double-click the portal. In the Portal Setup dialog box, change options as described above,
then click OK.
To delete a portal and its contents:
• With the arrow pointer, select the portal, then press Backspace or Delete, or choose Edit
menu
> Clear.
Notes
• In Layout mode, a portal object displays its characteristics in the lower left corner of the
object: its table name, the range of rows that the portal will display, a plus sign (+) if vertical
scrolling is enabled, Filter if filtering is enabled, and Sort if sorting is enabled.
• Filtering records is performed before sorting records.
• Filtering records is intended for display purposes only, not for security purposes. Filtering
records has no effect on the results of calculations, summaries, and find requests.
• In most cases, you should enable Show vertical scroll bar in the Portal Setup dialog box.
If you don't and there are more related records than will fit in the number of portal rows
you've defined, you won't be able to see all the related records or enter new related records.
• You can place more fields into a portal after you have created it. See Setting up a field to
display a pop-up menu, checkbox set, or other control.
• You can display objects other than fields in the first row of a portal. An object placed in the
first row of a portal is displayed once for each related record.
• When you add a portal to a layout, its format is based on the theme applied to the layout.
You can apply a custom style to change the display attributes of the portal. See
Creating
new layout object, part, or background styles.
• You can’t place a tab control or a web viewer in a portal. If you place these objects in a
portal, they appear as objects on the layout that overlap the portal.
• You can place a popover button in a portal as long as the associated popover does not
contain a tab control, a slide control, a chart, a web viewer, or a portal.
• You can place portals in any layout part, but a portal cannot contain another portal. If you
place a portal in a portal, the portals overlap.
• To number the rows in a portal, in Layout mode, click in the first portal row where you want
numbers to display, then choose Insert menu
> Record Number Symbol. Numbers appear
in portal rows in Browse and Preview modes, and when you print the layout. See
Inserting
the date, page number, or other variable onto a layout.