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    Copy will not run.....

    I created a Copy operation.... using the genie..... inserted "Copy.run("blank")" into an onpush for a button on my form. Shutdown A5... opened application... go to form with the button... push button... tells me "No such table".... so what part of working with the genie did I get wrong?
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    RE: Copy will not run.....

    Oh... if I go to the operations tab in control panel... it runs just fine.

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      #3
      RE: Copy will not run.....

      Argh! On second thought... nevermind... I dont need a backup. Problem solved.

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        #4
        RE: Copy will not run.....

        Jeff,

        I just experienced this problem. What was the solution?

        Thanks,
        Bill
        Bill Hanigsberg

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          #5
          RE: Copy will not run.....

          Well here is *one* solution. The problem was the same. The export.run() command would work in a script run from the control panel or interactive window but would fail when run from a button.

          I understand the issue and I understand the solution. Still, I am going to demonstrate action scripting to a group in a couple of weeks and I would like to be able to show a simpler way to run an operation from a button as the solution detailed below could stick some people as exotic. Shouldn't action scripting be able to handle this?

          Moreover, I thought a script created a new session. If so, having the button run a script which runs the operation should solve the problem but it doesn't. So I must be misunderstanding something.

          All help gratefully received.

          Bill



          Msg ID: 7945
          Subject: RE: export error
          Author: Selwyn Rabins
          Date: 10-17-2002 1:47 PM
          File:


          replace the line:

          :export.run("expsubinvoices")

          with this


          cmd = cvendno"
          export.field2 = "poheadertemp1->cinvno"
          export.field3 = "poheadertemp1->cinvdate"
          export.field4 = "poheadertemp1->desc"
          export.field5 = "poheadertemp1->amtreleased"
          export.field6 = "poheadertemp1->glacct"


          but, the export was defined as:


          export.field1 = "poheadertemp->cvendno"
          export.field2 = "poheadertemp->cinvno"
          export.field3 = "poheadertemp->cinvdate"
          export.field4 = "poheadertemp->desc"
          export.field5 = "poheadertemp->amtreleased"
          export.field6 = "poheadertemp->glacct"

          so you get an error.

          Bill Hanigsberg

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            RE: Copy will not run.....

            could *strike* some people as exotic. (I'll take care of sticking it to them.)
            Bill Hanigsberg

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              #7
              RE: Copy will not run.....

              Continuing this little conversation with myself, I found another way.

              If you capture the xbasic for the operation (copy in my experiment) and substitute table.get() for table.open() in the line
              a_table = table.open("your source table's name")

              you eliminate the error because you are using the current session of the table. Hence, no 2nd session with a different alias.

              You also have to eliminate the a_table.close() line at the end as you would be trying to close the primary table of the current session and would (I think) create another error.

              Still, I wonder if action scripting shouldn't be able to cope with the context issue.

              Bill
              Bill Hanigsberg

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                RE: Copy will not run.....

                Bill, good morning.

                Your second approach is how I've always done it in Version 4. Capture the script the saved operation is using, and then modify it to run against the same instance of the tables used by the current form. Depending on the level of experience of your audience, it occurs to me that this might be a good way to show them the script recorder.

                -- tom

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                  RE: Copy will not run.....

                  Hi Tom,

                  Agreed on both points. And the "recorder" utility is better in 5 as you don't have to run a saved operation to see its code as you can peek at the xbasic and copy it to the clipboard.

                  Of course, the script recorder is nice too.

                  But the environment I was working in last night is carried over from version 4 and the button to run the saved operation worked from 4.3 to 4.5. I don't remember when I wrote it but it was a while back.

                  So this is a difference between 4 and 5 which needs to be managed. The question I raise is how best to do so and avoid confusing users of action scripting.

                  This "application" is so simple that I never captured the operation's low level xbasic. I just made a button to run it.

                  For the record, it is a simple copy operation which copies certain records in the current table (on which the application's sole form is based) to an empty second table of identical structure.

                  All the best,
                  Bill
                  Bill Hanigsberg

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