Still need help

[crimmelcp]

Still need help
I can create 3 web components and put them into a table in a a5w page accross the page horizontally.
But they do not link together. They are different PO headers
see jpg (PO Numbers in the header do not match) the Customer information is 0132 and the Vendor Info id 0130.
I also need to show the line items for the PO in the Customer Info.

If I use a grid linker to link the web components, then I cannot put Horizontal only vertical.

I need to put Customer and Vendor information accross the page in frames and have them link together.
Thanks
Charlie crimmel

[Steve Wood]

Re: Still need help

It gets difficult to generalize with so many components on one screen, but basically you need to properly filter each component so it displays the correct information. But I suspect you know that, so I don't know why they display different information.

If I were doing this, there would be a lead off screen that asks what PO you want to view, and a submit button. When they submit I would place the PO number and anything else important into session or page variable(s) and use that to filter all of the components. I also wuold not have that many components on the same page, would make use of the View method in a Grid to show related information.

I think grid linkers are problematic and I have never used them in a final application.

[crimmelcp]

Re: Still need help

Steve:
I do have a main page.
After I log in it takes me to a main page.
(see jpg below)
Everything works on this main page except the edit PO link.
The print PO link (on the right of the screen) prints the correct PO
The left side menu works
The Edit PO goes to the correct screen but only filters the first web component -not the others-

Thanks
Charlie Crimmel

[Steve Wood]

Re: Still need help

To figure it out, we would need the code behind the Edit PO link, and the filter and argument expressions for all misbehaving components.

[Pat Bremkamp]

Re: Still need help

Charlie,

You may be going to the PO edit page with a filter.

A better solution is to set up the link like Steve suggested, with a session variable, something like

PO_Edit.a5w?session.PONum={poNumber}

Then, in each component, set up an argument, say argPONum and set it equal to session.PONum. Then create the filter in each component to filter on the argument, say

poNumber=argPONum

Then each component will filter on the correct PO number. You can do the same with the detail lines.

Pat

[Steve Wood]

Re: Still need help

Ahem, I would never do the part about the PO# in the URL. It exposes the key field in the URL so that now anyone can enter a guessed value and open someotherguy's PO. Instead, I've become a big fan of the new UUID field*. So I always have a UUID value for every record, then the URL might be mypage.a5w?id=myuuid. If I need it to be a session variable, I set it in the A5W page, converting it from a page variable (in the URL) to a session variable.

* Actually I use normal character field of length 32 because its more versital, and populate it with remspecial(api_uuidcreate)).

[crimmelcp]

Question on session variables

To All:
If I put
<%a5
dim session.PONum as C
session.PONum = ""
session.PONum = "P08301-0135"
%>
at the beginning of my a5w page it opens correctly.
It I change the PO Number, and It will Open correctly to the new number.
So it must be how I am setting the session variable.
When I click on a hyperlink I want to set the session.PONum to the value of the hyperlink.

The hyperlink is set as a link and is a calculated field called PO_Number1.

What is the code and where do I put the code.
Events ?????
session.PONum = {PO_Number1} ????
Thanks
Charlie Crimmel