Building a Scheduling Application (Part 10) - Variable portals for making a month view
FileMaker, like most software applications, requires a certain level of knowledge to master. When it comes to creating the month view of a scheduling application, how can you get away from creating 42 unique relationships? One for each of the possible days in any given month of a year. Can it even be done? Of course it can!
Creating the month view in our scheduling application is simply a matter of using a variable portal. The variable portal technique is used to force a portal to show information in the format you desire. Beyond that, it will vary based on where you are at in the interface or based any other piece of criteria. Watch this video as we fix some of the loose ends and implement the last of our three critical views!