Well, I know the old school way, which is to create an unstored calc container field in the child table that populates the portal. That container field is in the portal as a background, behind your other fields. It will pull a graphic from a global or perhaps another table of colors.

It’s also a button (or there’s another button) that sets a global variable or field to the portal row number the user clicked. (Or sets the portal row you have chosen to highlight, based on something else).

So the calc is something like: If($$rowslect = Get(PortalRowNumber); gGraphic; “”)

Hope that’s clear.

-- I think you can do the same thing with conditional formatting, but there is some issue with the window updating; I forget exactly how that works until I come across it. I think you have to either update window, which causes a flash, or reset a fake relationship key to trick the portal into updating; but it gets to be a pain in the.. The unstored calc costs nothing, and it becomes very straightforward to substitute different colors and not have to update each layout.

Geoff

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Subject: highlighting a portal row

Hi

Is there a way to highlight a portal row?

Using FMP12 Windows.

In list view, I have always used a OnRecordLoad script trigger to store the active record ID, and then used conditional formatting to fill a background field – this works well but not in a portal?

Any ideas or pointers appreciated.

Peter