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Zero To Awesome: Portal Actions - Using A Portal For User ActionsPosted by: Editor / Monday, November 10, 2008 – 2:08pm
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There are, oh so many ways, to provide for users to click buttons. You can use FileMaker's native buttons, store icons in containers and make those clickable, and there's always portals too! In this next installment of the Zero to Awesome series, I showcase the method I'm going to use for user actions - called Portal Actions. This is, more or less, using a simple portal to display the possible actions a user can take. Because a portal can dynamically render its data, you have more control over which actions are shown based on various conditions. Working within the self-defined context of the My Invoicer file, I can show different actions based on where the user is and what that user can do. Watch the video for some really advanced FileMaker development. Even if you don't use the techniques shown, it pays to know its possible! Details: Released - 11/10/2008 / Size - 16.02 MB / Length - 21 min
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Portal Actions for a IWP database
Hello Matt & Co.
I have just watched this screencast and I think it is awesome. I have a couple of questions about it:
1- You use zippscript within your solution but looks like it is not available anymore. Is it correct? if so what can I use instead zippscript? and what have I to change on your solution?
2- I need to provide different actions according to the user's privilege sets (what you do in this episode) on a database published through IWP. Do you think there is a way to achieve that?
Thanks and have a nice weekend