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    #1

    Guidance needed

    Hi All,

    OK, after spending 3 days going around in circles I am so far in the forest I can't see the trees or anything.

    I have a form to enter payments received that is based on a set. The sets primary table is "receipts" with a one to one link on "customer" which has a one to many link on "invoice header"

    What I want is to allow the user to either enter a customer number OR invoice number which in turn will bring up opened invoices for that customer or the specified invoice in an embedded browse (invoice header)

    I have no problem with entering the customer number and getting the desired results, however, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the results if the user enters a invoice number.

    I suspect theres a way to link this in the set, but I am brain fried.

    Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated.
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    #2
    RE: Guidance needed

    these 2 articles have everything you need:

    http://www.learn alpha.com/SearchOnChild/SearchOnChild.htm

    and
    http://www.learn alpha.com/QueryChildRecords/Query_on_child_records.htm

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      #3
      RE: Guidance needed

      If I got you right another way to let Alpha do is thru action scripting. If you go to events in the browse go to onrowblclk and use action scripting. When you enter an action go to open form and follow the rest. It will ask you for which form and will even allow you to pick the field as you want. Does that help?

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        #4
        RE: Guidance needed

        If I understand you correctly you want to double click on a row in an embedded browse and bring up the associated invoice record? If so then yes, action scripting will do it and it works great. By the way there is a bug and you need to press F5 after opening the form or it won't resynch. Selwyn is fixing this in the next patch.

        Russ

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          #5
          RE: Guidance needed

          Until the patch you could probably edit the code generated by the genie to include the resynch.

          Bill
          Bill Hanigsberg

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            #6
            RE: Guidance needed

            Thanks for everyones input, however I might have explained it wrong.

            I want the browse to show filtered records based on the value from the parent form.

            As of now when I enter a customer number in the parent field, the browse shows the invoices for that customer only. This works fine.

            My problem is trying to get the browse to display a specified invoice if the customer number is left blank but the invoice number is entered instead.

            The parent form holds both the customer number field and the invoice number field. All the browse does is display the invoice header items.

            Hope I am clearer this time. Sorry about the confusion and thanks.

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              #7
              RE: Guidance needed

              Can we assume
              -the parent form contains customer no and invoice number fields;
              -you want to filter the brouse by customer if you know it and otherwise by invoice number.

              If so couldn't you write a condition expression based on the content of the customer field along these lines:

              If customer is blank
              filter on invoice
              else
              filter on customer
              endif

              Bill
              Bill Hanigsberg

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                #8
                RE: Guidance needed

                William,

                Yes, both fields are on the parent form. Right now if I enter a customer number(1001), the browse will show invoices only for that customer#1001. This works the way I want it too.

                If I don't have a customer number value, BUT, I have the invoice number, I want to see only that invoice in the browse.

                In other words if I get a check in the mail that has a invoice number opposed to a customer number on it I want to use the same form and find the invoice to apply payment to based on the invoice number.

                My sets primary table is "Reciepts" - Included fields are: reciept_no; customer_number; invoice_no; date; amount.

                tbl.Reciepts has tbl.customer_info as a one to one link - customer_number as the linking field

                tbl.customer_info has tbl.invoice_header as a one to many link - again customer_number is the linking field

                Thats why entering the customer# produces the desired result.

                But now I don't have that customer# to enter .. only a invoice number. Is there some way to get the desired child record just with the invoice number without making a new set with different linking fields and another form?

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                  #9
                  RE: Guidance needed

                  You have several ways to go on this but let me ask one more thing. If you have an invoice number can you find out the cust number that goes with the invoice. If so, you could look it up and then search on the customer number as before.

                  Otherwise you get into searching on the child records which is what Peter Wayne's references were about
                  or
                  you invert the set and just search on the invoice number.

                  I like the first way (using the inv# to lookup the customer) if it can be made to work.

                  Bill
                  Bill Hanigsberg

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                    #10
                    RE: Guidance needed

                    Bill,

                    I would like to invert the set as well, but this can't be done in xbasic can it?

                    I guess I will play with this a bit more and see what happens ....

                    Thanks for all your input.

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