Form level skip rule

[whanigsberg]

Hi everyone,

I'm building a questionaire. Some questions have to be skipped conditionally. Question 21 asks whether the respondent does any employee training. Question 22 asks for details. Obviously, if the guy does no training you skip question 22 and go on to question 23.

Question 21 is a logical field displayed using a pull-down with the choices Yes and No and the values of t and f. The pull down is defined at the form level.

I want to activate the question 23 field conditionally based on the the value in the control while the record is still unsaved. I have no trouble doing this with a type-in. It is the pull down control that is blocking me. I guess it is some type of object addressing problem.

Does anyone have a suggestion.

(I know I can write a skip rule in field rules but I am trying to avoid going this route.)

Thanks very much,
Bill

[Tom Cone Jr]

RE: Form level skip rule

Bill, assuming the tab order follows the question numbers, you could put something like this in the OnDepart event for the logical field at Question 22:

vLogicalVariable = Question22.value 'where Question22 is 'object name of the logical 'field on the form

if .not. vLogicalVariable then
parentform:Question24.activate() 'where Question24 is 'object name of field on form
end if

[whanigsberg]

RE: Form level skip rule

Hi Tom,

That is an interesting idea, using an intervening variable. I was referencing the value of the control itself in the conditional expression.

Here is the code I attached to Question21's on_depart:

If this.value=.f.
parentform.Q23.activate()
End if

Meanwhile, I fell across another clue. We had two versions of A5 running here and my syntax worked fine on the later version. But the machines have different versions of windows so I am in a bit of an inferential quagmire.

I remember a passage in the manual which I think uses a variable as you suggest to refer to an object property. I just looked but failed to find it. I'll search further.

Thanks,
Bill

[Peter.Wayne]

RE: Form level skip rule

Place a conditional object on the form and make the object containing question 23 one of the conditions. Make the default a blank object.