By making a portal field into a button, you can quickly switch to related records by just clicking the field.
1 .Go to a layout with the self-relationship portal and switch to Layout mode (Control+L/Command+L).
In this example, we use the company portal we created in "To display and access self-relationship data" on page 132.
2 .
Click one of the self-relationship portal fields. In this example, we use Full Name (Figure 6.51). Choose Format > Button.
3 .In the Specify Button dialog box, scroll down to the Navigation section and select Go to Related Record (Figure 6.52).
4 .In the Options section, click the Specify button. When the Options dialog box appears, select the table occurrence in the "Get related record from:" drop-down list.
5 .
In the "Show record using layout:" drop-down list, select Current Layout (Figure 6.53). Click OK twice.
6 .Switch to Browse mode. Click a Name field in the portal. You'll now see the record for the name you selected.
Under most circumstances, when you make a field into a button, you can no longer use the field to edit data. However, once you click the field/button, FileMaker brings you to the related record where you can make changes.
![[View full size image]](/image/library/english/13861_06fig51_alt.gif;400478){kind=link}