Button Help Please!

[2020rob]

Hey everyone,

I am stumped again. Here is the deal.

I want to add two buttons to an a5w page containing a read only grid component.

I want one of the buttons to send me to another a5w page containing a dialog component and populate one of the fields with a value from the read only grid.


The other button will direct me to an email page allowing me to choice who I want the email sent to. I will be emailing a summary report from the records entered using the aforementioned components.

Here is a method I have used for linking from a dialog to another dialog which works great. How can I accomplish the same thing when using a read only grid component?


t = table.open("[pathalias.adb_path]\safety_tour")
t.enter_begin()
t.St_id=(CurrentForm.Controls.vSt_id.value)
t.Dept_id=alltrim(CurrentForm.Controls.vDept_id.value)
t.St_typ=alltrim(CurrentForm.Controls.vSt_type.value)
t.St_date=convert_type(CurrentForm.Controls.vSt_date.value,"d")
t.St_count=alltrim(CurrentForm.Controls.vSt_count.value)
t.enter_end()
t.close()

If CurrentForm.Controls.vSt_count.value = "0" then

CurrentForm.RedirectTarget="dashboard.a5w"

Else

CurrentForm.RedirectTarget="newsafetyrounddetails.a5w?vSt_id="+CurrentForm.Controls.vSt_id.value

End if

[Steve Wood]

Re: Button Help Please!

You can't put the buttons on the page (i.e., outside of the grid) because how would it know which grid record you wanted to refer to the next process? You want to create LINK fields directly in the grid, so the user clicks the link on the actual record they want referrenced.

To create the link, create a calculated field such as:

mylink="This is my Link Name"

Add this to your grid. Make it a link field type. Change Link Address Type to Computed. On Link Address, select the page you want to open, select Variables. Create a variable, assign a field to that variable.

On the page that has the dialog, your Variable above will become a Page Variable, so you can assign it to a dialog field with

currentform.controls.myfield = ID (if ID is your variable name).

[2020rob]

Re: Button Help Please!

Thanks Steve.

Here is what I am trying to accomplish.

The user clicks a link to add a new safety round. This brings the user to a dialog where they enter basic information about the safety round. Next, the press submit which takes them the another dialog page where they enter the specific findings associated with the safety round.

What I would like to have happen, is that every time the user clicks submit, they would be directed to a summary page showing the findings they have entered so far (it is sometimes hard to remember what you have already entered when you have dozens of findings-the summary page will help the user keep track). The user should than be given the option to add an additional finding (directed back to the add finding dialog -or- indicate that they are done and than be directed to a page allowing them to select who the safety round finding report should be email to. Once the user selects the email recipients and presses submit they are directed back to the main page.

Any suggestions?