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    Basic Concept Help

    Please help with a basic concept. I have a table.set, parent customer table with one to many link to a vehicle table, links Customer_ID and Vehicle_ID. Need button script to create new vehicle record for current customer via a vehicle_entry form, save, and return to customer form. Seems like a simple basic concept but I just haven't been able to get it to work either high level or Xbasic. Appreciate any help. Thanks

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    RE: Basic Concept Help

    If you're going to immediately return to the current form, why open the vehicle form at all. Just code a button to enter a new record in the vehicle table, which as I understand it, is part of the set. This script will do that (the linking value will be filled in by A5). Replace outline_level with the correct number.

    t = table.current(outline_level)
    t.enter_begin()
    t.vehicle_id
    t.enter_end(.t.)

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      #3
      RE: Basic Concept Help

      Steve,
      Thanks for such a quick response. I spent 4 hours last night working with the Enter_Begin concept to no avail. I need to be able to create a new vehicle record for the selected customer on the customer form, then allow the user to enter new data into that vehicle record through a vehicle_entry form, save it and return to the original customer form and selected customer.
      I haven't coded Alpha script since the early 1992 versions so you may see why I having problems with Alpha5 coding concepts. Thanks again Steve, Hanging in There, Sam

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        RE: Basic Concept Help

        Hi Sam,
        I'm with Steve, thinking you could just do this through the set you have created, but if you need to open a seperate independent form;

        create a script that picks up the values on the parent record you need in the child, such as

        customer_name = parentform:name.value

        Then open the vehicle form:

        form.view("vehicle_form")

        Write the values to the vehicle form:

        :vehicle_form:name.value = customer_name

        Put focus where you want it:

        :vehicle_form:vehicle_field.activate()

        then let the user fill in the rest of the info. As long as you fill in the correct value in the linking field on the child table, it will link up with the parent.

        Jim

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          #5
          RE: Basic Concept Help

          Jim,
          Your response was right on the mark. Last night I got to the vehicle_entry but had trouble bringing customer_id over from the parent record. I thank you and Steve for your responses cause it gets me back on course that there may be light at end of this tunnel. I have the 1994 edition of AlphaFive Xbasic and Tutorial manuals but it looks as if I need to go ahead a get Dr. Peter Wayne books if I expect to get this application on the air before winter.

          Thanks again from Sam in North Florida

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