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    Capitalisation of letters

    Hi

    I have a field containing names. Somes names are "double-barrelled" e.g. Smith-Klein. When the data is entered, it doesn't matter whether the employee enters the names as upper case or lower case, the field rule converts to 1st letter cap, the rest lower case. Which results in Smith-klein.

    How do I tweak my screen form (and reports) so that the K is always upper case after a hyphen?

    Thanks in advance
    Paul

    #2
    RE: Capitalisation of letters

    Paul

    I think you just change in the field rules for that field and set Case convert to "Word"

    Mark

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      #3
      RE: Capitalisation of letters

      Mark/Paul,

      A4V6 assumes that the "-" is part of the string as if it's one whole word and will return Smith-klein. I've toyed around and cannot find a simple way to accomplish this.

      Mike
      Thank you,
      Mike Konoff

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        #4
        RE: Capitalisation of letters

        Mike
        It won't do it automaticaly but
        I Tested on mine and you can at least type in Upper or lower
        case and save, it seem to work that way Ok
        Thanks I'm at home now but I'll try again tommorow
        Hey first time on the message board

        over 10 yr user with many applications
        Just upgraded to version 7 yesterday on a network
        Got real good advice off this board
        I felt i owed sombody somthing

        Thanks
        mark

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          #5
          RE: Capitalisation of letters

          Hi Mark/Mike
          Setting field rules to "Word" won't do it - been there tried that - the only way I can think of doing it is to extract the letters from after the hyphen, use the Case function something like "if 1st letter="a","A"" and then reconstitute the name and tack on the remaining letters. Messy but should work. Although I wonder if I can nest 26 case functions...hmmm...time for the manual again...

          Thanks both...
          Paul

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            #6
            RE: Capitalisation of letters

            Paul,

            You idea of some sort of nested function to change a to A, b to B and so on, came to mind. But I know there is a limit to the amount of text that can be used in a field rule. I suspect there may be more space if this is done in a script.

            That sure would be one long script.

            Mike
            Thank you,
            Mike Konoff

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              #7
              RE: Capitalisation of letters

              Indeed.
              If I use SUBSTR to select the letter after the hyphen, I can change it to uppercase using a nested CASE function (times 26!), then recombine etc. Seems very convoluted though. There has to be an easier way.

              And now the users tell me that there is a (very rare) need for the letter after the hyphen to actually BE lowercase. Sometimes.
              GRRRRR!

              Time for another coffee and a rethink...
              Thanks for your input, Mike.

              Paul

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                #8
                RE: Capitalisation of letters

                You could write an Exit Trigger script that could use a combination functions such as *ANY(), ISLOWER(), UPPER(), and LEN() to determine the position of the special character and then, capitalize and re-write it.

                gm

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                  #9
                  RE: Capitalisation of letters

                  Hadn't thought of that. Another pair of eyes often helps - thank you Gedi.

                  It will mean changing the employees' way of working a little, but I will try that route.

                  It would perhaps be simpler all round to get them to enter the data in that particular field exactly as they want it to appear in the reports, and remove any field re-formatting altogether. That way they get the capitals exactly where they want them or don't want them.

                  Regards
                  Paul

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                    #10
                    RE: Capitalisation of letters

                    Paul

                    If you want Alpha to do it I Agree it won't. I also have
                    had this at one time come across my plate

                    However you mentioned that you couldn't even enter
                    Smith-Klien and have it saved without reading Smith-klien

                    I just tried it on my computer
                    Typed In Smith-Klien saved it and it Read Smith-Klien
                    (Case Convert to Word)
                    Maybe this is not what you wanted but hope it helps
                    Mark

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                      #11
                      RE: Capitalisation of letters

                      Hi Mark

                      Sorry - I wasn't being clear enough. I can enter it the way you say and get the desired result, but for reasons which are probably too boring to be of interest to you right now, the keyboard entry is always done without use of the Shift key. Hence the problem.

                      I think I will try to change the way things are done in the office.
                      Wish me luck!

                      Paul

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                        #12
                        RE: Capitalisation of letters

                        Create a keystroke script named something like LNAME_VT.
                        Edit the field rules and set the Validate trigger to play this LNAME_VT script. The script does a case convert on a last name that contains exactly 1 hyphen. It does nothing if the last name does not contain exactly 1 hyphen. You should still set the case convert field rule to Word. The code contains comments to help you understand what it does. You could also use this code to handle last names like O'Connor, etc. The LNAME_VT script code follows.

                        {* LNAME_VT field rule validate trigger *}
                        {*�Cancel�if�the�last�name�does�not�contain�1�hyphen�*}
                        {IF�OCCURS("-",%SYS_FIELD_VALUE)=0,{{CANCEL}}}
                        {IF�OCCURS("-",%SYS_FIELD_VALUE)"1,{{CANCEL}}}
                        {*�X�is�the�position�of�the�hyphen�*}
                        {SET�%X,AT("-",%SYS_FIELD_VALUE)}
                        {*�Y�is�the�length�of�the�word�right�of�the�hyphen�*}
                        {SET�%Y,LEN(LTRIM(RTRIM(%SYS_FIELD_VALUE)))-VAL(%X)}
                        {*�Convert�the�word�left�of�the�hyphen�*}
                        {SET�%NAME1,W_UPPER(LEFT(%SYS_FIELD_VALUE,VAL(%X)-1))}
                        {*�Convert�the�word�right�of�the�hyphen�*}
                        {SET�%NAME2,W_UPPER(RIGHT(%SYS_FIELD_VALUE,VAL(%Y)))}
                        {*�Change�the�value�of�the�user-entered�field�*}
                        {SET�%SYS_FIELD_VALUE,%NAME1+"-"+%NAME2}

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                          #13
                          RE: Capitalisation of letters

                          I expanded the LNAME_VT validation trigger script to handle hyphenated names such as O'Brien and O'Connor. It handles last names such as Smith-Klein, Klein-O'Connor, O'Brien-O'Connor, etc.

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                            #14
                            RE: Capitalisation of letters

                            Wow, Gary!
                            I knew there were some helpful people here but that's beyond the call of duty - I will test it and apply it to my app.
                            Did you already have the code or have you written it specially for lil' ol' me?

                            Best regards
                            Paul

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                              #15
                              RE: Capitalisation of letters

                              I wrote it last night. It was a real brain teaser. I hope it works out. Glad to help.

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