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User Input Question
Mar 6th, 2008 at 3:06pm
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What is the difference between @PromptforUserInput() and @QuestionUser()?
Why select 1 over the other?

I am trying to use one of the above to get a specific date the user wants to run a mass update on. How do I get the  @PromptforUserInput() or @QuestionUser() to run once instead of on each record.

I have tried lots of methods and have not been successful.

This is what I am doing


Ask user for input
Vrundate = @PromptForUserInput("Please enter ship date to process:", "")

See if  shipdate matches Vrundate
If shipdate = Vrundate

Then
{            
Do Stuff
}

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Re: User Input Question
Reply #1 - Mar 6th, 2008 at 3:48pm
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I think that they are actually the same function with two names.

You can put the @PromptForUserInput() in the Global Code of the mass update. That will make it ask just once.

Make vRunDate a static variable in Global Code. Then, you can use it in the regular mass update code to do your date comparison.
  

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Re: User Input Question
Reply #2 - Mar 6th, 2008 at 3:50pm
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What is the difference between @PromptforUserInput() and @QuestionUser()?


There isn't one. They are the same thing just with two names.

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I am trying to use one of the above to get a specific date the user wants to run a mass update on. How do I get the  @PromptforUserInput() or @QuestionUser() to run once instead of on each record. 


Use Global Code and make Vrundate a Stat. So global code will have

Code
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Stat Vrundate as Date

Vrundate = @PromptForUserInput("Please enter ship date to process:", "")


Then another event will have

Code
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If shipdate = Vrundate Then
{
     Do Stuff
}


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Reply #3 - Mar 6th, 2008 at 3:53pm
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Robert,

BTW, don't forget that you could also use @Calendar() instead of @PromptForUserInput().
  

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Reply #4 - Mar 6th, 2008 at 4:11pm
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Carl, Ray,

Excellent information and ideas, Thanks for the help  Smiley
  
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Reply #5 - Apr 14th, 2009 at 12:05pm
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Hello!

I am trying to use on a command Button to start with a  @PromptforUserInput() or @QuestionUser() but  I have tried lots and have not been successful:
the @PromptforUserInput() or @QuestionUser()  does not start at all!

What i am doing wrong?  

hier is my Code:

var vRS as Int
var vLabNr as String

     vLabNr = @PromptforUserInput("Geben Sie ddas LabNr des Patienten ein.", "")
     //vLabNr = @QuestionUser("Geben Sie ddas LabNr des Patienten ein.", "")
     If vLabNr <> ""
     {
           // Get an empty result set
           vRS = @XResultSetSearch(@FN, "Auftrag", SEARCH_MODE_AND,SEARCH_SYNTAX_QA, "LabNr==")
           If vRS > -1
           {
                 XResultSetCreateNewRecord(vRS)
                 //XResultSetValue(vRS, "Key", @Number)
                 XResultSetValue(vRS, "LabNr", vLabNr)
                 XResultSetValue(vRS, "erfasst", @Date)
                 XResultSetClose(vRS)
           }
           Else
           {
                 @MsgBox("Error: failed to open result set.", "", "")
           }
     }
     Else
     {
           @MsgBox("Sie müssen ein LabNr für diese Pateint eingeben.", "", "")
     }


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Re: User Input Question
Reply #6 - Apr 14th, 2009 at 1:31pm
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In which event do you have the code? Make sure it is On Element Entry.
  
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Reply #7 - Apr 14th, 2009 at 4:45pm
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Hello Erika!

The Code is On Element Entry!
When i start from a main menu to a Form B  the function @PromptforUserInput() in the Form B does not react.
I noticed that it works well when i run the form B as Startup Form.

Why?

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Reply #8 - Apr 14th, 2009 at 5:22pm
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If you replace all that code with a simple Writeln statement, do you see it?
  
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Reply #9 - Apr 14th, 2009 at 8:28pm
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Yes, i see the  Writeln statement!
  
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Reply #10 - Apr 15th, 2009 at 2:22pm
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Hello Erika!

The Code is On Element Entry!
When i start from a main menu to a Form B  the function @PromptforUserInput() in the Form B does not react.
I noticed that it works well when i run the form B as Startup Form.

Why?

Thanks.


Not seeing any problems here. Can you think of any circumstances that would make your case different? Is it possible that the @PromptForUserInput dialog is appearing behind some other window?
  
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Re: User Input Question
Reply #11 - Apr 20th, 2009 at 4:46pm
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which is a typo from me. My conditional command relates to the wrong variable and therefore appears no dialog.
Everything works fine.

Thank you Erika,
Thank you Mark .
  
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Re: User Input Question
Reply #12 - Sep 25th, 2009 at 10:35am
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Hallo!

I have a small database SCANN.DB  (one Form and one Subform)  with @PromptForUserInput and @BMsgBOX and functioning properly. I merged the SCANN.DB in another application TOOLS.DB (with 10 forms).  Now  all @PromptForUserInput and @MsgBox no longer active in SCANN Form in the new TOOLS-application. Anybody who has a idea what i have done wrong?

For their support i am very grateful!
  
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Re: User Input Question
Reply #13 - Sep 25th, 2009 at 1:14pm
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Are you changing the Warning Level of the application at any point? Either by using the WarningLevel() Sbasic command or the -warn_none startup switch or the "WARNING LEVEL:" INI file entry?
  
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Reply #14 - Sep 25th, 2009 at 8:37pm
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Are you changing the Warning Level of the application at any point? Either by using the WarningLevel() Sbasic command or the -warn_none startup switch or the "WARNING LEVEL:" INI file entry?


Ray,
I have a WarningLevel(WARNING_LEVEL_NONE) without the ending WarningLevel(WARNING_LEVEL_SOME) on a Form Entry in the Startmenu.
that was my Mistake.

Thank you so much.
  
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