3 key uses for FileMaker Portals

If you're looking for solid understanding about using FileMaker portals, then you'll have a good grasp after watching this video. We're not just talking about hooking up a portal for related data, but all the key uses for a portal beyond showing related data. This FileMaker portal tutorial covers all the key concepts.

00:00 - Start
00:26 - About this video
04:16 - Making the relationship for a portal
07:52 - Setting up a default native portal
11:51 - Creating records within a portal
15:51 - Portals containing other objects
19:30 - Filtering a portal
22:23 - Multi-key Global Portals
37:25 - VirtualList Portals

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[natinnh]

Excellent video as always - And I appreciate you slowly going through the details of how and why - having been away from FM for too long - V16 - and now really wanting to get back into it - I am trying to build a solution employing portals in a matrix form - Ex: 4 sets of seeds with 5 seeds - with each set being a different value(size maybe) - and then displaying the results in a matrix of portals by either working the proper calculation or using the virtual list portal scheme - but this video has helped me get my head better wrapped around the whole concept of portals - And you repeating the whole thing about never duplicating stuff where it isn't needed has made me clean up some bad habits of mine - I think a trip over to the magazine site will offer up what I need - Thanks Matt

[luckyguy]

Matt, thanks. Please make a video about general concept of relational database and how to think Filemaker way and contexts. Thanks. Great video as you always do.

[pefle]

Matt, thank you. Very interesting and instructive

[mahmoudbalata]

How can i export the data from Filemaker into excel properly without losing the records formatting ?

[gjermundification]

Does a global field still load the data left in single user mode as defaults for each user if shared on a server?

[francisdavidbonvingannon]

Bug: type error.
The ? mark in the displayData field is shown when a field set as Number can’t show all its content
As your field contains text, you should set it to text.
It will then no more show the question mark, but the text.