Hehe... Just a very silly idea.... call it Irish lateral thinking...
Can you rotate the text 90 degrees in all the fields/boxes... Then print in landscape layout... Sorry, sometimes I just can't help myself ;) Cheers Neil (who has never even used Filemaker) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/2/09 8:08 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: > > On 03/02/2009, at 6:11 PM, Norman Leslie wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> I haven't used FileMaker in a couple of years, so I am a little rusty. >> >> I have checked FileMaker Support and Knowledge Base pages, as well >> as a general Google inquiry but couldn't find what I was looking for. >> >> I would like to create a "Report Layout" with the records in columns >> and fields in rows - this is not an option in any of the Layout >> Templates, where the fields are in columns and the records in rows. >> >> Can someone put me out of my misery? >> >> This is for a project I'm doing for the Bunbury Entertainment Centre >> on a volunteer basis. >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Norm Leslie >> Bunbury >> > > Filemaker's Layout Mode does not support this in any way. In fact I'm > struggling to think of any database tool that does. By their very > nature, you are always going to have many more records than fields, so > a vertical arrangement of records displaying a set number of fields > (allowing "endless" scrolling) is the natural and obvious approach. > It's also much easier to make sense of. > > Do you have any examples of the model you are trying to reproduce? > > -- > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
