Is there a way to reference a field that has been calculated in a report via a script? I have a report that produces a closing balance which I want to place inside a table via a script. Can this be done? I need a way to actually reference the name of the calculated field in the report. Thanks for any help.
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Re: Calc field on Report referenced in script
Open the report in design mode.
Click on the object of the calculated field on the report
Open the object explorer - view - object explorer
Click Current Object
Click on value in the right window
Click Copy to Keyboard
Choose Property Name - relative
Now the clipboard can be pasted into a script.
You may be able to use scripting within the report.
Click the menu Report - Section Events - pick the proper section and script a write to a table as needed.Al Buchholz
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Re: Calc field on Report referenced in script
Originally posted by foxxrunning View PostAl,
Boy was that fast. I will try that soon and see if that works for me. Thank you for your incredibly quick reply.
You may want to use a function called from one of the report events passing the value(s) needed.Al Buchholz
Bookwood Systems, LTD
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Re: Calc field on Report referenced in script
Hi David,
Did you not already ask this question in another thread?
https://forum.alphasoftware.com/show...nt-from-reportMike W
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Re: Calc field on Report referenced in script
Try this in the Report Section Detail OnRecord event
Code:dim tbl as p tbl = table.current() tbl.change_begin() tbl.balance = topparent:Baldue.value tbl.change_end()
Robin
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Re: Calc field on Report referenced in script
Have tried all of the suggestions in various combinations, and nothing I have written affects the opening_balance field in my table. On my report which is based upon a set of three different tables, the opening_balance field is the parent table. Using the topparent:(name of calc field) = parenttable.field does not change the field. I think Alpha is confused because the topparent: designation doesn't know which table to place the change into. Hope this is descriptive enough. What am I missing re: topparent and how might I get it to point to the appropriate table? Thanks for all your help.
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Re: Calc field on Report referenced in script
Originally posted by foxxrunning View PostHave tried all of the suggestions in various combinations, and nothing I have written affects the opening_balance field in my table. On my report which is based upon a set of three different tables, the opening_balance field is the parent table. Using the topparent:(name of calc field) = parenttable.field does not change the field. I think Alpha is confused because the topparent: designation doesn't know which table to place the change into. Hope this is descriptive enough. What am I missing re: topparent and how might I get it to point to the appropriate table? Thanks for all your help.
You are not following Robin's suggestion. It works.
Your example is setting the value in the object of the report.
Her example is setting the value in the primary table.Al Buchholz
Bookwood Systems, LTD
Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST
Occam's Razor - KISS
Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
"Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Albert Einstein
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Re: Calc field on Report referenced in script
And I followed Al's instructions. (post #2) using David's transdupe table. Although I did make some changes to that table...it was nothing that affected the report.Robin
Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford
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Re: Calc field on Report referenced in script
This is the code that I put into the report section detail onrecord event.
dim tbl as p
tbl = table.current()
tbl.change_begin()
tbl.Opening_Balance = topparent:BalanceDue1.value
tbl.change_end()
It did not make any change to my primary tables field "opening_balance". I cannot figure out what I am doing incorrectly. Thank you all for helping.
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Re: Calc field on Report referenced in script
Using the sample table Mike created in your other post (link in post 6 above), the report is based on a set
and there is a group being used to get the balance, therefore the section event you need would be
for the group PID OnRecord - which is where I put this script.
dim tbl as p
tbl = table.current() 'patients
tbl.change_begin()
tbl.bal_due = topparent:Cf_bal.value
tbl.change_end()
(the sample table I was using above belonged to a different thread - sorry about that...)Last edited by MoGrace; 08-17-2019, 11:26 AM.Robin
Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford
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Re: Calc field on Report referenced in script
Originally posted by foxxrunning View PostThis is the code that I put into the report section detail onrecord event.
dim tbl as p
tbl = table.current()
tbl.change_begin()
tbl.Opening_Balance = topparent:BalanceDue1.value
tbl.change_end()
It did not make any change to my primary tables field "opening_balance". I cannot figure out what I am doing incorrectly. Thank you all for helping.Al Buchholz
Bookwood Systems, LTD
Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST
Occam's Razor - KISS
Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
"Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Albert Einstein
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