5 Replies Latest reply on Feb 19, 2013 7:27 AM by philmodjunk

Object name as find criteria

symbister Feb 18, 2013 6:14 PM

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I have several buttons on the layout, one for each user of the company credit card, for them to enter the Account and Job details on each record of card transactions (previously uploaded from bank export). What I'm trying to achieve is a generic script that picks up the button object name, and uses this as a find criteria.

So that button named and labelled Leigh will find her records, prompt her to enter the details, she then clicks done to go back to menu layout, her button has a tick beside it and next person does their bit ...

I've experimented with Get(ActiveLayoutObjectName) to be returned as a Script Parameter, but this appears to only return the object name when it has focus - not when it is clicked.

any ideas welcome

1. Re: Object name as find criteria

philmodjunk Feb 18, 2013 8:59 PM (in response to symbister)

This question pops up from time to time. The best alternative is to pass that data as a script parameter specified when you set up that button.
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2. Re: Object name as find criteria

symbister Feb 18, 2013 9:14 PM (in response to symbister)

Thanks Phil - I also tried this, using Get(ActiveLayoutObjectName) as the script parameter - didn't do it...

screen shots herewith - Transactions::user is an unstored calc field
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3. Re: Object name as find criteria

philmodjunk Feb 18, 2013 9:33 PM (in response to symbister)

     GetActiveLayoutObjectAttribute won't work in either context for the reasons you stated in your original post.

     But putting the text you wanted this expression to return, "Leigh", will work. You can also reference the contents of a field or variable in the script parameter box.
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4. Re: Object name as find criteria

symbister Feb 18, 2013 11:45 PM (in response to symbister)

thanks Phil - each button has same script with different script parameter, that's about as close as I'm going to get.
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5. Re: Object name as find criteria

philmodjunk Feb 19, 2013 7:27 AM (in response to symbister)

It's really very close the what you asked for. The only difference is that you type the text into the script parameter box for each button instead of typing the text into the Object Name box for each button.
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