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    #1

    form link wont work

    i have tried everything, but my form link will not work.

    form 1 has a button with an action script to open form 2 and to display a record from the same table as form 1, using the caseid field as a link.

    when the button is pressed it will open form 2 at the first record in the table not the desired record. i have this working on other forms no problem.

    i have tried every possible option availble using action scripting.

    any ideas and if possible an explanation as to why this might be happening

    thanks
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    Re: form link wont work

    Originally posted by richard2007 View Post
    i have tried everything, but my form link will not work.

    form 1 has a button with an action script to open form 2 and to display a record from the same table as form 1, using the caseid field as a link.

    when the button is pressed it will open form 2 at the first record in the table not the desired record. i have this working on other forms no problem.

    i have tried every possible option availble using action scripting.

    any ideas and if possible an explanation as to why this might be happening

    thanks
    Would be much easier to look at a sample of what you have and make something work than to diagnose this by guesswork.
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: form link wont work

      user name - administrator
      password - manager

      open form frmhomecontact (located near the end of the forms list), select client surname 'harris' and click 'continue to case overview'

      in case overview, click the button 'fact find'. this is the button in question. this will open the clients screen but will show the first client 'pers pedersen' not the selected client 'harris'

      all data is test data.

      cheers

      richard

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        #4
        Re: form link wont work

        I've done a little digging and I can see that the value shown in caseref after performing your steps should be 2647 and displays as 2647 but if you switch to design mode at that point and open the object explorer, the value shown there is 2442. Thus you get shown the info for 2442 on the subsequent form.

        Have to stop for a while but will get back to it later or in the morning.
        There can be only one.

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          #5
          Re: form link wont work

          I haven't found out why but somewhere along the line a query is being applied

          recno() = 1

          and that is causing the further filter for the caseref to not work correctly. The query is applied when the Case Overview form is opened.


          I think.
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            Re: form link wont work

            Thanks Stan,

            ill have a go at trying to fix this. one thing has just come to mind, i dont have any records numbered 1 unless this means the first record.

            someone did email me suggesting that i refresh the indexes, so ill also give that a go.

            ill post back how i get on.

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              #7
              Re: form link wont work

              Originally posted by richard2007 View Post
              Thanks Stan,

              ill have a go at trying to fix this. one thing has just come to mind, i dont have any records numbered 1 unless this means the first record.

              someone did email me suggesting that i refresh the indexes, so ill also give that a go.

              ill post back how i get on.
              Correct. Alpha maintains a "record number" internally.
              There can be only one.

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                #8
                Re: form link wont work

                so far...

                i have refreshed the indexes, packed the table. added a new button to form 1 with just one simple action script telling alpha to open form 2 filtered on the caseref field.

                i have tried opening another form in the same set, i have tried opening form 2 from a different from (frmhomecontact)

                but nothing changes. im not sure where this filter is being applied.

                any ideas??????????

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                  #9
                  Re: form link wont work

                  Problem is somewhere in your form "fFClient" "OnInit" events. I delete all of the events and all works OK then.

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                    #10
                    Re: form link wont work

                    It sure seemed like nothing in the OnInit event would be a problem but Jack is correct.


                    Take the two "Set Value property of fields" from your OnInit event and place them on the OnActivate event and it works. (OnInit and OnFetch events do not)
                    Mike
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                    It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
                    It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
                    Henry David Thoreau
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                      #11
                      Re: form link wont work

                      Mike, this sounds like what I've seen before. OnInit is a slender reed. I rarely use it except for the simplest, shortest scripts. A useful strategy often is to open the form from a button and have the button load the form but keep it hidden. Then have the same script populate necessary fields, set indexes, move the record pointer, etc. Once all the work has been done, show the form to the user.

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                        Re: form link wont work

                        Tom,

                        Yes--even in my limited experience the OnInit event is very touchy especially when "pre-entering" field values.

                        But what to do when you only want to have the info/values placed or entered but the ONE time which the OnInit event is so nice for? My solution in the one case where I needed this to be so was to create a logical field that is set to True with the button's OnPush event, and then on the OnActivate event of the form that was called use this as a condition to run the value setting script(s) and then setting the logical field to False so that it would not run again unless the form was closed and reopened (my own little OnInint event if you will).
                        Last edited by MikeC; 01-19-2008, 06:10 PM. Reason: changed first False to True
                        Mike
                        __________________________________________
                        It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
                        It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
                        Henry David Thoreau
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                          #13
                          Re: form link wont work

                          Thank you all very much.

                          i moved the code from oninit to onactivate and the desired results are achieved.

                          this demonstrates the great help this message board is, as id never have considered this and couldnt find anything in the help files.

                          thanks again.

                          richard

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                            #14
                            Re: form link wont work

                            this demonstrates the great help this message board is, as id never have considered this
                            It really demonstrates the teamwork here as well--Stan narrowed the problem down a lot, Jack narrowed it even more, and I just went a tiny bit further to find the exact cause (after most of the work was already done I might add!!). And then Tom comes and adds a bit of an explanation and an additional way to do similar. As a result, a solution was found without any one person spending a ton of time on it which really makes it nice for those with limited time---any one person does NOT have to see things to the end and so can contribute what they can, when they can....always seems someone picks up the ball when it is left laying for too long around here! :)
                            Mike
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                            It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
                            It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
                            Henry David Thoreau
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                              #15
                              Re: form link wont work

                              Mike, this sounds like what I've seen before. OnInit is a slender reed. I rarely use it except for the simplest, shortest scripts. A useful strategy often is to open the form from a button and have the button load the form but keep it hidden. Then have the same script populate necessary fields, set indexes, move the record pointer, etc. Once all the work has been done, show the form to the user.
                              mike, i have another form which will require quite a bit of value setting when opened.

                              if i understand you correct, i should look at

                              1. load the form in hidden mode
                              2. execute all of the commands i need (set values) (can this be done from a button on a different form?)
                              3. make the form visible.

                              thanks

                              richard

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