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    Opening Forms With Loaded Records

    Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I have a form with a lookup field (Customer) and an embedded browse (Quote) that is related to the lookup. After selecting a customer, the browse is filtered according to the customer name. The user then is to select one of the quotes and then click one of two buttons which brings the user to another window with the record that the user chose in the embedded browse. These two forms have different sets so how would I load the record that the user chose into the new form?

    Brandon

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    RE: Opening Forms With Loaded Records

    The button genie should walk you right through that. Create a button, and follow the genie right along to open a new form, etc. You'll be given an opportunity to specify the filter, and even pick-lists that will let you specify that a value in the new form is equal to a value on a control on the current form.

    - Steve
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      #3
      RE: Opening Forms With Loaded Records

      Try the help file, Action Scripting, Open Form or Browse Layout. There is a demo of

      How to display related information from a different table

      as well using values on the current form.
      There can be only one.

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        #4
        RE: Opening Forms With Loaded Records

        Thank you, however, I forgot to say that when I use the action scripting and filter using a record on teh current form I get an error: "Bad Object Handle". There must be another way to do it, that works.

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          #5
          RE: Opening Forms With Loaded Records

          Check this thread for a discussion of a similar situation.

          Bad Object Handle
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            RE: Opening Forms With Loaded Records

            Thank you. This helped alot. But it only loads the record if the new window is already opened what can i do to my code in order for it to load the record even if the form is not opened yet?

            'Open a Form or Browse layout, displaying all, or selected records in the layout.
            'Check to see if you are running the script from within a Form
            dim flag_error as l
            flag_error = .f.
            if is_object(topparent.this) then
            p = topparent.this
            if p.class() = "Form" then
            DELETE Parameter1
            'Set the Parameter variable to the object's .value property
            Parameter1 = eval("P:BROWSE1:Quotenumber.value")
            else 'Not in a Form. This is an error condition.
            flag_error = .t.
            end if
            else
            flag_error = .t.
            end if

            if flag_error then
            ui_msg_box("Error","You can only run this script from within a Form",UI_STOP_SYMBOL)
            end
            end if


            filter = "Quotenumber = [varN-"parameter1]"
            query.filter = replace_parameters(filter,local_variables())
            query.order = ""


            'Open the layout_type showing just the records that satisfy the filter
            DIM Shared varP_LetterheadQuote as P
            DIM layout_name as c
            layout_name = "LetterheadQuote"


            dim tempP as p
            'Get pointer to existing window. In case layout_name is qualified with a dictionary name, extract up to first @. In case formname has spaces, normalize it
            tempP=obj(":"+object_name_normalize(word(layout_name,1,"@")))
            'Test if pointer is valid
            if is_object(tempP) then
            'Test if pointer refers to a form or browse
            if tempP.class() = "form" .or. tempP.class() = "browse" then
            'Apply the query to the form or browse as the Base query. (this means that
            'the user cannot turn the query off, only add to the query)
            tempP.BaseQueryRun(query.filter,query.order)
            'then activate the already open window
            tempP.activate()
            else
            'Window is not already open, so open it
            varP_LetterheadQuote = :Form.viewqueried(layout_name,query.filter, query.order )

            end if
            else
            varP_LetterheadQuote = :Form.viewqueried(layout_name,query.filter, query.order )

            end if

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              #7
              RE: Opening Forms With Loaded Records

              Whenever the form is already open, everything works just fine. But if the form is not yet loaded, the error, "No Records in Query" comes up. What do I do to fix this?

              Please Help
              Brandon

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