How to make my life easier?

zeninoleg

Hi, everybody
I have a question. When I use C/AL Symbol Menu I do not want Navision to insert the record name, I want only a Field Name.
For instance, when I write SalesHeader.SETRANGE and I want to select a field to put in brackets I do not want to happen following SalesHeader.SETRANGE(SalesHeader."No."... I want SalesHeader.SETRANGE("No."...
Now I just delet the Record name after the insertion, but I am lazzzzzy!
Is there a hotkey that I have to press to insert just the field name?

Well, I guess the more you work the lazier you get!

SteveO

You can use the Symbol List before you even type SETRANGE.

eg.

press F5 and choose SalesHeader."No."
Put the cursor after the . and type SETRANGE(

I don't know if it is any quicker, put that's the order I've always done it in 8)

zeninoleg

Yep, that is what I do now, but this does not work for the typing field name for the AfterGetRecord trigger(or any other dataitem triggers in the report) or for the
WITH SalesHeader DO BEGIN
..
END;
:-k

DenSter

So don't type WITH SalesHeader DO BEGIN and use the symbol menu for all the fields, that will save you the typing of the WITH statement, and it will make your life a lot easier so you don't have to delete those pesky record variable names

zeninoleg

I LIKE THAT!

DenSter

I KNOW, ME TOO

Alex_Chow

DenSter wrote:

So don't type WITH SalesHeader DO BEGIN and use the symbol menu for all the fields, that will save you the typing of the WITH statement, and it will make your life a lot easier so you don't have to delete those pesky record variable names

Yeah, but this (to me) makes the code looks really messy..

Just an opinion... moving along... :whistle:

kine

Yeah, but this (to me) makes the code looks really messy..

For me the code with WITH statement is much more unreadable than without it, and in many cases, when you use WITH, you have troubles with mixing fields from Rec, from record variable used in WITH and global and local variables (if you use same names... :-). When you look into code, you do not need to jump to the beginning to know, from which record you are using the values... ;-)

Of course, this is just my opinion and I know, that others are using that and it is better for them... 8)

DenSter

I HATE the WITH statement, especially when the code is more than one page. I much more prefer to have the variable name right with the field name, that is much easier for me to read.