Chapter 16Working with Data Portals
Data portals provide FileMaker with extremely rapid relational database capabilities. They are an essential feature of FileMaker and have been a major selling point of the product for years. Portals are tables within a FileMaker layout containing a list of related records, commonly from a one-to-many relationship, that can be created, edited, and deleted without any additional scripting for connecting the foreign keys of the two records together. The FileMaker API for the first time allows portal records to be created, edited, and deleted; previously only reading and creating records was supported. This chapter begins with an overview of the structure that the FileMaker API uses to power portals on the web ...
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