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    How to use locate text

    Hello I am trying to use "locate text". When I use an onevent button to locate text and I tell it the form to use, I get the form does not exist. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong. What I am trying to do is give the user the ability to search a specific table and return all results for the text he put in.

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    Re: How to use locate text

    If you have a button on one form to locate text in another form, the second form must be open for the locate to work. Barring that you probably get the message "The Window:Second_form_name does not exist.", not the form does not exist.
    There can be only one.

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      Re: How to use locate text

      Thank you Stan, that worked but not liked I thought it would. How do I do a text lookup in a table to check all fields for a text, then display all records in a browse format for each instance for that text

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        Re: How to use locate text

        The text would be provided by the user at prompt time

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          Re: How to use locate text

          What's wrong with giving them a button to open a browse of the other table and show them how to use the Find menu choice?
          There can be only one.

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            Re: How to use locate text

            Ok Stan, I have not used the find or search command very much, can you tell me where I can find this Find menu choice to see if this will work

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              Re: How to use locate text

              Here.
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              There can be only one.

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                Re: How to use locate text

                Originally posted by deputy956 View Post
                Thank you Stan, that worked but not liked I thought it would. How do I do a text lookup in a table to check all fields for a text, then display all records in a browse format for each instance for that text
                are the fields you wish to search in all in the same table? How many records are you searching? do the records have a unique identifier field taht is not the record number (if so what is is and what field type is it)? are you also expecting this to "point out or highlight the text or identify the field containg that text?
                Last edited by Mike Wilson; 03-13-2014, 07:16 PM.
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                  Re: How to use locate text

                  you could do it the brute force way with a marking records routine. here is an example. The search gets all the character fields in the table into a list and searches every field in every record of the table in search for an input value to search, and marks records having the search value in one of the fields of the record, then presents the marked records to the user on the form embedded browse. I tried to collect the found records into a list and using inlist2() to filter the table, but it didn't work, and I'm thinking the found list got too long for that function to handle.
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                  Last edited by Mike Wilson; 03-13-2014, 11:01 PM.
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                    Re: How to use locate text

                    Originally posted by Mike Wilson View Post
                    .... I tried to collect the found records into a list and using inlist2() to filter the table, but it didn't work, and I'm thinking the found list got too long for that function to handle.
                    Yes, that is the reason:
                    Help --> Database Specifications --> Number of characters in an expression limit --> 1024
                    The expression with the number of records found becomes too large to use.
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