Choosing diff. forms from 1 button & displaying right da

zzz458

Hi,
One of our customers have different product group codes and different properties for each group.
I have created different tables and forms for each product group to keep the properties of the items belonging to that group.
Now I want to place a button into the item card which will understand the group of the product and choose the necessary form and
then show the properties of that item. I have already done the first part. The button chooses the right form according to product group code but I can't make it display the datas of that item.
Can this be done? If yes, how?
Thanks a lot.

Arhontis

Hi,

If you have your form as a variable, you could do something like:

SomeRec.SETRANGE(.....);
aForm.SETTABLEVIEW(SomeRec);
aForm.SETRECORD(SomeRec);
aForm.RUN;

Or, if you have olny the id of the form:

SomeRec.SETRANGE(.....);
FORM.RUN(4711,SomeRec); 

where SomeRec is a record variable that holds the properties of the specific group.

DenSter

A suggestion:

Add a field to your product group table that links to the object table, and give the user the ability to enter the form number there. That way you can use the number in that field to know what form to open.

kriki

Arhontis wrote:

FORM.RUN(4711,SomeRec);

Try to avoid this.
Always use

FORM.RUN(FORM:"My Form",SomeRec);

Marije_Brummel

I agree with Alain.

For Lazy Programmers (Like me):

If you compile

Form.runmodal(form::form1)

It will generate

Form.runmodal(form::"Company Information")  

Same goes for reports and dataports etc.

kriki

For even more Lazy :-$ Programmers (Like me who copied the text from Mark):
If you compile

Form.runmodal(form::"1")

It will generate

Form.runmodal(form::"Company Information")

Same goes for reports and dataports etc. :D:D

Marije_Brummel

Same goes for optionstrings

SalesLine.Type := SalesLine.Type::"2";

Makes

SalesLine.Type := SalesLine.Type::Item;

After compiling

I will post this to Tips and Tricks