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    #16
    Re: Managing a Transaction Table

    Originally posted by sollasollew View Post
    Gotcha, more or less. The question with this function is to figure out what tables and field names it needs and where to place them. BTW, what is @BROWSE48976FA2? I click on it and get an error message.

    Eric
    I haven't the foggiest. Where are you seeing that?

    LATER: OK, I see it. It is nothing I know of. Extraneous, I'd delete it.
    Last edited by Mike Wilson; August 11, 2008, 11:56 AM.
    Mike W
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      #17
      Re: Managing a Transaction Table

      Thanks. Is there any bright way to find the values required to run the function other than going through the code line by line?

      EG

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        #18
        Re: Managing a Transaction Table

        What values are you referring to and I can highliht them for you.
        Mike W
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          #19
          Re: Managing a Transaction Table

          You're extremely generous.

          I figure the function has to know where to get the Status and the Status Category and what to do with them once the user makes his/her choice. I'm not good enough at reading the code so I don't really know where to look (ie what functions require what parameters).

          Eric

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            #20
            Re: Managing a Transaction Table

            field names are in blue and tablenames are in red and the first field value for the parent table needed to start the xdialog is in pink. There were some other notes and commented out things that were from a different application that were confusing that I took out also.

            Code:
            FUNCTION update_status AS C ( )
            
            ' This function adds an update to a status
            
            dim vclid as C
            vclid = parentform:browse2:[COLOR="Blue"]client_id[/COLOR].value
            
            'Create an XDialog dialog box to prompt for parameters.
            
            DIM vLCats as C
            dim shared vCat as C=""
            DIM SHARED vStat as C=""
            
            vLCats= table.external_record_content_get("[COLOR="Red"]Status[/COLOR]","[COLOR="blue"]Category[/COLOR]","","")
            vLCats = word_unique(vLCats,crlf())
            
            ' GENERATE THE GLOBAL ARRAY FOR EACH CATEGORY
            		dim vLCDIM as C
            		dim vLCVAR as C
            		dim vFilter as C
            		dim vConv as C
            		dim cycle as N = 0
            		dim vLCatW as C
            		dim shared vReply as C
            
            	for each foo in vLCats
            		vLCatW = foo.value		
            		vConv = alltrim(vLCatW)
            		'MSGBOX("CONV", vConv)
            		
            		query.filter = "[COLOR="blue"]Category[/COLOR] = "+s_quote(vConv)
            		vfilter = convert_expression(query.filter,"V")
            		'MSGBOX("FILTER", vConv+crlf()+ vfilter)
            		
            		vLCVar = vConv+"Items"
            		vLCDIM = "dim "+alltrim(vLCVar)+" as C"
            		Evaluate_template(vLCDIM)
            		eval(vLCVar) = table.external_record_content_get("[COLOR="Red"]Status[/COLOR]","[COLOR="blue"]Status[/COLOR]","",vFilter)
            	next
            
            '======== generate the xDialogs ===================
            RETRY:
            	Gchoices = vLCats
            	vCat = word( Gchoices, 1, crlf() ) 
            	Itemchoices = [COLOR="magenta"]Housing[/COLOR]items
            	
            	dlg_text = <<%dlg%
            	{position=1.5,2.5}
            	{background=#175,165,135}
            	{xmargin=2,2}
            	{region}
            	{font=Arial,9,b}
            	{frame=1,0:Category}
            	{font=Arial,9,n}
            	[.30,5vCat^#Gchoices!newd_*];
            	{endregion}
            	{region}{comment this region is just to space things out a bit}
            	{comment this adds even more space - maybe too much}
            	{endregion}
            	{region}
            	{font=Arial,9,b}{frame=1,1:Status }{font=Arial,9,n}
            	[.30,15vstat^#Itemchoices];
            	{endregion}
            	{condition=.t.}
            	{lf};
            	<10OK> <10Cancel>
            	%dlg%
            	
            	dim vresult as C 
            	vresult=ui_dlg_box("Item Choices", dlg_text, <<%code%
            	IF left( a_dlg_button, 5 ) = "newd_"
            	 IF a_dlg_button = "newd_change"
            	 	
            	 		Itemchoices = eval(alltrim(vCat)+"items")
            	 
            	 END IF
            	 a_dlg_button = ""
            	END IF
            	%code%)
            	
            
            	if vResult = "Cancel"
            		end
            
            	else if vCat = "" then
            		p_msg_box("ALERT","The Category was not chosen correctly.  Try again.","<15Yes> <15Cancel>","")
            			select
            		    case vReply = "Yes"
            		    	GOTO RETRY
            		    case vReply = "Cancel"
            		    	vProceed = "no"
            		    	end 
            		end select
            		
            	else if vStat = "" then
            		p_msg_box("ALERT","The Status was not chosen correctly.  Try again? .","<15Yes> <15Cancel>","")
            		select
            		    case vReply = "Yes"
            		    	GOTO RETRY
            		    case vReply = "Cancel"
            		    	vProceed = "no"
            		    	end 
            		end select
            	end if
            	
            	'msgbox("","Category = "+ vCat + crlf() + "Status =  " + vStat)
            
            	dim t as P
            	t = table.current(2)   '("transactions")
            	t.enter_begin()
            	t.[COLOR="Blue"]client_id [/COLOR]= vclid
            	t.[COLOR="blue"]date[/COLOR] = date()
            	t.[COLOR="blue"]category[/COLOR] = vcat
            	t.[COLOR="blue"]status[/COLOR] = vstat
            	t.enter_end(.t.)
            	't.close()
            
            'Pause the script for a instant until the user interface has finished repainting.
            xbasic_wait_for_idle()
            
            'Refresh data in current form at parent level.
            'Can only resynch data in View mode, so save record first to be sure that layout is in View mode.
            	topparent.Commit()
            	topparent.Resynch()
            	topparent.Refresh_Layout()
            	'Refresh  'Browse1' in current form.
            	topparent:Browse1.repaint()
            	
            END FUNCTION
            Mike W
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              #21
              Re: Managing a Transaction Table

              Many, many thanks. I will print this out and follow to the letter.

              Eric

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