Re: Some questions about the Portal.

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 14:30 -0400, Carlos Savoretti wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:32 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:11 -0400, Carlos Savoretti wrote:
> > > Hi Murray:
> > >
> > > Surely there's something I can't get at all. Using the
> > > Smallbusiness.glom for testing, and having Invoices
> > > selected, I went to the Invoice_lines portal to open
> > > a "detailed view" of those lines, so I opened a given row 
> > > among those lines and it appears the Products table.
> > >
> > >    I though it wouldn't be being that Products table is
> > > just the 1st. relationship of Invoice_lines, so which
> > > would be opened if invoices_lines would have more than
> > > one relationships ?
> > >
> > >    Peeking in the glom document I saw that there's a
> > > detailed data layout set for the hidden tables also, 
> > > so I guessed it'd be seen thru this way.
> >
> > Hidden tables are never seen by non-developer users. If you want 
> > the user to be able to see the invoice_lines tables directly, just stop
> > that table from being hidden.
> >
> > Glom tries to guess what table should be opened when you click on a 
> > related record, by looking at the fields that are shown. It is usually
> > correct, but in newer Glom versions you can specify exactly what
> > relationship should be opened.
>
> Ok. That's right. Just one more question: In which situation would be
> seen the "detailed view" of invoice_lines, either by an operator or a
> developer ?

When the invoice_lines table is not hidden, and when the first field in
the row is a field from invoice lines. Or when you have explicitly
specified that navigation should go to that table in the related records
item's properties.
 
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