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Portal Favorites - Giving Users Options

Posted by: Editor / Thursday, July 10, 2003 – 3:30pm
by Matt Petrowsky

Name: Portal Favorites
Format: Video article
Size: 5.6MB
Length: 10:50 Minutes
Files: Portal Favorites.fp5 (88K)

Synopsis: A database is typically a shared system where more than one person uses it.

This means that users will have different preferences - don't you? This video and technique file shows how to provide the user option of checking which items within a portal you want to show as your favorites. Using a little bit of trickery with one of the Design Functions, it's possible to give users the ability to not only filter a portal, but filter based on their selected favorites as well.

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Matt Petrowsky is the Senior Editor for ISO FileMaker Magazine. Matt has been involved with FileMaker Pro since the early '90s. Having authored many articles, a popular book, spoken at conferences and seminars, as well as provided private training, Matt is continuously updating his knowledge and skill about the powerful FileMaker platform. You can contact Matt by sending email to editor@filemakermagazine.com.

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