Ok, this is what I'm trying to do. I have a textbox field that you enter an account number in. What I want to do is have the person enter the account number, press 'submit' and then then have three fields populated with the following information: one with a total budget amount from a table called Bduget (based off the account number entered previously); a second with the total amount of expenses from a table called Expenses (from the same account); and then a third that subtracts the expense amount from the budget amount. I have watched the video on how to populate the dialog from a button, but the data I'm using is a DBF file and there's more than one record of the account number. How would I go about accomplishing this? Thanks!
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Re: Caclulated Fields in a Dialog
hello
you will need to add two look up and fill in actions for the onClick event for the button and the for the balance use calculated field expression
that should work.thanks for reading
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please post al the fields needed and indicate the ones that are from a table and the ones calculated using word document
that will helpthanks for reading
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Re: Caclulated Fields in a Dialog
Let me know if this is what you need.
Thanks!
AccountEntryDocumentation.doc
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this is already given at the post #1. what you need to provide is the individual tables and sample data. for example
Code:budget table: acct # name budget 101 gg 100.00 102 ss 200.00 103 ff 300.00 expense table acct# desc expense 101 meal 50.00 102 car 50.00 101 gas 25.00 103 smoke 55.00 102 clean 40.00 103 meal 100.00
thanks for reading
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Ok, I've updated the word doc. Thanks for clarifying.
AccountEntryDocumentation.doc
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have you considered using the tablesum() function ?
EX:
lkupbudget = tablesum("budget-table","acct-id = " + e.datasubmitted.acct-id,"budgeted")
lkupexpense = tablesum("expense-table","acct-id = " + e.datasubmitted.acct-id,"expense")
clcactual = lkupbudget - lkupexpense
e._set.budgetfield.value = lkupbudget
e._set.expensefield.value = lkupexpense
e._set.clcfield = clcactual
You might need to do some convert_type's to make this work, but I think it should work.Gregg
https://paiza.io is a great site to test and share sql code
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Ok, so I've tried that code as you suggested, but I'm receiving an error. I've attached a word doc with pictures of the error message and my current code. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong. Thank you so much for your help!!
ErrorMessages1.doc
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Ok, nevermind. I figured out what I was doing wrong up above. But now my problem is that it isn't adding up anything. When I submit, it just returns a 0.
Here is my updated code:
budgetTotal = tablesum("budget.dbf","Mst_acct = " + e.dataSubmitted.accountNumber,"Amount")
expenseTotal = tablesum("expense.dbf","Mst_acct = " + e.dataSubmitted.accountNumber,"Commit_amt")
calculateTotal = budgetTotal - expenseTotal
e._set.budget.value = budgetTotal
e._set.expense.value = expenseTotal
e._set.difference.value = calculateTotal
Thank you again!Last edited by meh8610; 07-12-2013, 04:30 PM.
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Re: Caclulated Fields in a Dialog
Please show the code.Gregg
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Re: Caclulated Fields in a Dialog
Originally posted by meh8610 View Post
Here is my updated code:
budgetTotal = tablesum("budget.dbf","Mst_acct = " + e.dataSubmitted.accountNumber,"Amount")
expenseTotal = tablesum("expense.dbf","Mst_acct = " + e.dataSubmitted.accountNumber,"Commit_amt")
calculateTotal = budgetTotal - expenseTotal
e._set.budget.value = budgetTotal
e._set.expense.value = expenseTotal
e._set.difference.value = calculateTotal
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using the debug(1) option, what values show for the first 3 lines after they are executed?Last edited by madtowng; 07-12-2013, 05:17 PM.Gregg
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I think it shows all the values to be 0, but I'm not sure if I'm doing it correctly. Here is a screen shot:
ErrorMessages1.doc
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Click on the step button until you get to line 9.
Let us know the results.Gregg
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