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    Prompt user for input in Report

    I am trying to do the following: when I click on a "preview report" button, have A5 show a dialog box for me to enter a short comment, and have the comment appear in the report. I can get A5 to show a dialog box (in the onPrintInit) to enter my comment but don't know how to place on the layout what was entered in dialog box. I then reversed the process, created a variable, placed it on the the layout, now I can't I enter my comment in it. I can't seem to connect both ends.
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    Re: Prompt user for input in Report

    Gaby,
    Unless mistaken, the OnPrintInit event occurs too late for what you want to occur---and it and the OnRecord events are the only events you have in a report (wish there were more!).

    IOW any preprocessing has to be done prior to previewing the report...such as setting filters, order, variables, etc. .
    Mike
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      Re: Prompt user for input in Report

      Gaby, I agree with Mike. Collect your input. Store it in a global variable that corresponds to a global in your report layout.

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        Re: Prompt user for input in Report

        Mike,
        Not sure I understand this:
        any preprocessing has to be done prior to previewing the report...such as setting filters, order, variables, etc.
        I have a report where, thru xbasic, I create SHARED variables, open a couple of tables, get values from those tables and assign to my variables and use those variables in the report. All done in the Report OnInit event. Maybe with getting values from a ui_msg_box has to be done prior.
        Ernie

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            Re: Prompt user for input in Report

            Originally posted by Tom Cone Jr View Post
            Gaby, I agree with Mike. Collect your input. Store it in a global variable that corresponds to a global in your report layout.
            Global Variable is the answer...I tried many things except globale variables; still learning...

            G Gabriel: your video shows exactly what I am looking for

            Thanks guys

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              Re: Prompt user for input in Report

              Ernie,
              I may have used the word preprocessing incorrectly---a bit too literal or all-encompassing I guess. Maybe looking at it in that any processing of values have to be done via code and not during user interface. There is another limit too in that like the system current_filter variable cannot be used (obtained or trapped) in the OnPrintInit event.

              Thanks for catching this.
              Mike
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              It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
              It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
              Henry David Thoreau
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                Re: Prompt user for input in Report

                Originally posted by gaby_h View Post
                G Gabriel: your video shows exactly what I am looking for
                Thanks guys
                It is doable. Someone asked the same question before and I attached an example. Unfortunately, it's Monday morning (or Tuesday) and I have absolutely no time to play with this. If you can't find the other example, I will try to attach another one later.

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