The steps below provide an overview of the process. After you complete the FileMaker Server installation, you can then load the settings for your schedules to instantly configure them in the new installation. Your reporting capabilities will be significantly limited by week-based records.If you need to reinstall FileMaker Server on the same machine or move the installation to another machine, you can save the settings for your schedules that are configured in the current installation. This is a significantly simpler data model that does away with the scrolling and syncing problem we discuss previously however, it's a rare system that can be served without discrete day records. Note that a variance to this technique is to create a data table of week records, instead of days, with a field for each day. To learn how to apply this technique, refer to 'Filtered Portals' later in this chapter. Likewise, clicking the page-down button adds 7 to each date. If a user clicks your page-up button, the routine simply subtracts 7 from each date. In these cases, we will often choose to create page-up/page-down routines that increment and decrement a 'seed' date that controls the first records in each portal.

Given that you have seven portals side by side, scrolling one portal would not behave intuitively for users (Saturday, for example, would scroll but none of the other days would). The obvious shortcoming to this technique is that you cannot use a scrollbar. This approach depends on your having data records for each full week that you choose to display in this way.

If you have a Tuesday missing, for example, any Tuesday records that follow will appear to be out of sync with the other days of the week. FileMaker will display records in each portal in order. If you have missing records, you might get your days out of sync and display, say, Tuesday 14th to the right of Monday 6th. You will need seven relationshipsone for each day of the weekand will need a data table in which one record equates to a single day.īe careful to ensure you have all your date records available. To your users this will feel like a completely natural calendar. You can create a portal and relationship for each day of the week and include in the match values a _kf_dayofWeek value that ensures that only Mondays appear in the first portal, Tuesdays in the second, and so on. We often use the technique of placing seven portals next to each other to create calendar-like views within FileMaker.

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