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    Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

    When I use the "File" option I can have the records currently in the browse exported. But when I try to use the AlphaDAO, it seems the only option is to use arguments that are set at runtime, that's not what I want know, I would like to use the formatting of the AlphaDAO option and export only those records currently in the Browse. Is this possible?
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    Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

    Below Arguments is Filter. Not sure if it will work but you can try CURRENT_FILTER_EXPN().

    You might also be able to hilight the browse (top left corner) and use CURRENT_HIGHLIGHTED_RECORDS().
    Last edited by Stan Mathews; 10-18-2013, 10:08 AM.
    There can be only one.

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      Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

      Hey Stan, both those gave the same error, "Error querying local table - Filter expression not logical"

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        Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

        Where exactly was I to use those functions, inside the Filter field of the Operation?

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          Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

          Yes.
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

            Try the filter

            eval(current_filter_expn())
            There can be only one.

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              Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

              I tried it as

              eval(current_filter_expn()) and eval(current_filter_expn())=.T.

              In both cases I get "Result set row not found"

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                Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

                Guess you're out of luck.
                There can be only one.

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                  Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

                  Lol!. I hope that will be a feature for future release, because it really seems like something very important that's missing, as if someone forgot to include it.
                  When exporting from DBF, its unsightly to see those extra short abbreviated names that we're encouraged to use, also to see ID fields with their multitude of leading zeros.

                  Many thanks for the time Stan. May you have a great day mein.

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                    Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

                    You're exporting to Excel? Use Alpha's ole methods to dress up the result spreadsheet.
                    There can be only one.

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                      Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

                      Ok, I see the OLE in the toolbox, I add it to the form, but what next? Does this have to be set up like an ActiveX?

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                        Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

                        I didn't say ole object, I said method.

                        Save my attachment and import it into a database, code tab - right click - Import. It will add a function named nigel to the database.
                        Create a spreadsheet in Excel and save it to c:\temp with the name of your choice.
                        Go to the interactive window and execute

                        nigel("c:\temp\yourexcelfilename.xls","c:\temp\newexcelfile.xls")

                        Look in the c:\temp directory and examine the newexcelfile.xls


                        nigel - 10-18-2013 -1.txt
                        There can be only one.

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                          Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

                          Hey Stan! I totally appreciate your assistance so far, and I hate to ask more of you, but though I got your sample code to show me what you wanted it to, I just cant apply it to my needs. I tried to replace the relevant areas with the field names that I want exported, but i couldnt get it to work. If you cud apply it to the Alpha Sports Invoice Header table that would be really great.

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                            Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

                            Nigel:
                            If I am understanding your question correctly, you could create a saved operation to export the records to Excel. One of the options of which records to export is "Export currently selected records".
                            So, if you open the browse based on selected records then run the saved operation, it will export these records only.
                            You do not have to make any choices at run time, just run the saved operation with either:
                            export_run()
                            or
                            export_run_silent()

                            You could do the same with an xbasic code, a little bit more involved though.

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                              Re: Can AlphaDAO Export to Excel Be Based on Currently Selected Records

                              I'm familiar with that option Gab, my problem is, I want to style the resulting fields in Excel a bit: More user friendly names than the ones used in the DBF tables. format a few of the values like the "ID" fields, remove leading zeros etc. My company has retired Quickbooks POS for this in house app. But Quickbooks exported data looks so much more formatted in Excel.
                              From Quickbooks, they export and used.
                              But from the Alpha app, currently, they export, resize column width, change column names, format ID fields, delete unwanted columns, then they use it.

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