U.M. (Mac OS)

10-28 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
Changing the appearance of related fields and portals
Copying and pasting related fields and portals
Delete related fields or portals
from a layout
In Layout mode, select the field or portal, and then press
Delete. FileMaker Pro deletes the objects, not the
relationships, field definitions, or data.
To Do this in Layout mode
Change the fill color or pattern,
pen color or pattern, or line width
of a related field or portal
See “Changing lines, colors, and patterns” on page 3-51.
Change the color or pattern of
alternating rows in a portal
Double-click the portal. In the Portal Setup dialog box,
select Alternate background with, and then choose a fill color
and pattern from the palettes. Click OK.
Resize related fields or
portal rows
See “Resizing objects” on page 3-50. Resizing the first row
of a portal resizes all rows.
Change the number of rows
displayed in a portal
Double-click the portal. In the Portal Setup dialog box, type
a new value for Show
<value> rows. Click OK.
Show or hide a portal scroll bar Double-click the portal. In the Portal Setup dialog box,
select Show vertical scroll bar. Click OK.
Change the data format of
related fields
See “Defining display formats for fields” on page 3-59.
The changes only affect the format on the current layout.
Change the appearance of a
related field in the current layout
See “Working with fields in a layout” on page 3-55. The
changes only affect the appearance on the current layout.
Slide related fields and portals to
remove blank space between
layout objects
See “Removing spaces at the end of fields and parts” on
page 6-5. Objects in a portal don’t slide or shrink, but when
a portal slides, objects within the portal slide with it.
To Do this in Layout mode
Cut, copy, and paste
related fields
See “Cutting, copying, and pasting objects” on page 3-45.
If you paste a related field into another file, FileMaker Pro
looks for a matching related field name in the new file. If
the matching name exists, FileMaker Pro pastes the field in
the layout with that same name. Otherwise, a template field
(a field with no association to any field in the database file)
is pasted.
Copy and paste portals See “Cutting, copying, and pasting objects” on page 3-45.
To copy and paste related fields with a portal, select the
fields and the portal. If you paste a portal into another file,
FileMaker Pro looks for a matching relationship name in
the new file.
To Do this in Layout mode