From the course: FileMaker 16 Platform: Advanced Features
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Cascading portals - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker 16 Platform: Advanced Features
Cascading portals
- [Instructor] So in the interest of trying to express the power of query relationships in FileMaker, I think it's interesting to do exercises where we're changing the context in the to and the from, so the parent and the child gets a little bit different. So in previous videos, we've done self-drawing relationships where the context for the to and the from is the same. And we've done the parent-child where we've added multiple parameters. And now I'm going to do something a little bit funky that is really kind of jumping down a couple of stages. So we're going to go from a parent all the way down to a grandchild, for example. So let's first kind of set the stage of what it is that we're trying to do here with our goal. What we have on this layout is a customer detail. It's our record for a customer that we're looking at here onscreen. And we have a portal already that shows all the customer's invoices. What I wanted to do was make it so that when we click on this button, another…
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