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Topics:  Hands-On 12: Global variable, trigger (when-new-form-instance)

Now, your client notice it would be better for them if they could get to specific product's price rather than entire table.  They want you to add more functionality to their application to display only current item information.

The current product would be defined by the position of your cursor.

You have been assigned to modify your application to query only pricing information for a product whenever your current cursor position is.

You will learn how to:  use and assign global variable, pass global variable from one form to another, use global variable to execute query base on that parameter, create and use "WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE" trigger.

 

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Save the “Customer orders” Form name as version 12.

 

Save the “Product Price Data Entry” Form name as version 2.

 

Change the application to query all the product prices for an item that the cursor is on.

 

Expand the “Product Price Data Entry” Form.

Select “Data Blocks.”

Create a new data block manually.

Change its name.

Open it's property palette.

Change "Database Data Block" to "NO."

Close the window.

 

Create a new item.

Open it's property palette.

Change the "name" item to “TEMP_VALUE.”

Change its datatype.

Change "database item" to “NO.”

Close the window.

 

Select “Prodid” on the price data block; and open its property palette.

For “Copy Value From Item” type "control_block.temp_value."

Close the window.

This shows where the “temp_value” item is coming from.

 

Create a "WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE" trigger at Form level.

Type “W” and “N” and select the trigger.

Move the global prodid item value into the temp_value item.

Then go to the “price” data block and execute the query function.

Compile the trigger and close the window.

 

Highlight the Form and save it. Then compile it.

 

On the other Form, right click on “push button” to choose “Smart Trigger” and select the "WHEN-BUTTON-PRESSED" trigger.

 

Change the program name to the new version (version 2).

Move the product id item value into the global product id item.

Compile the trigger and then close the window.

 

Run the application.

Click on “Execute  Query.”

Navigate through the application.

 

Highlight a product id and then click on the “Product Price Data Entry” push button.

Now, you only see information about that specific product id not all the products.

 

Repeat the process for some other items.

 

Minimize the "Product Price Data Entry" window.

Navigate through some other application's functions.

 

Then, close all the windows and save the changes.

 

Now, you should practice this over and over, until you become a master at it.

Good Luck.

 

 
 
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