Re: Prompting for input during a process?

Hi Eric,

[Quoted] If you know the persons identity when the cancellation button is checked then you could do the check for SSN immediately (and any other validations required), rather than wait until data entry has started and there are changes to save.
[Quoted] Alternatively, use the Post built-in to save (but not Commit) your changes to the database, and call your personal profile maintenance form. Use a global or parameter list to indicate to the called form that it too needs to [Quoted] Post instead of Commit in these circumstances. A Global can be set in the called form to indicate whether data entry was successful (a Global created [Quoted] in the child form is visible to the parent). If you decide to use Post, note that the Form Status is reset to 'QUERY' and [Quoted] if you subsequently need to know whether there are changes to be committed then you need to hold that information in your own variable.

Eric Givler wrote in message ...
>I'm using Developer 6i to write a form. During a process, a [cancellation]
>button is pressed. At this point, it means, the current record's
>status_code column should be set to CANCELED. Also during this process, it
>looks at payment history and then how to refund the customer. There are a
>number of alerts that come up during this process, and near th end, if the
>person's SSN is not on file, an alert is displayed that says that this must
>be entered prior to proceeding. Unfortunately, at this point, they are
>practically at the LAST STEP.
>
>How could the user be prompted along the way to enter this SSN? There's
>another screen in the system that allows person profile updating, but if I
>ask them to go there once the cancellation is in progress (even after the
>msg showed up), then my calling form has been updated and they get a
>"calling form has unposted changes" when they try to save the profile
>record/SSN in the other screen.
>
>I guess I could add an SSN window and canvas with an [ok] and [cancel]
>button on it, and I assume this MUST BE part of the block that contains the
>status_code field, right? Otherwise, I can't leave that block because it
 is
>not VALID.
>
>Is there a cleaner solution to this? I have a NUMBER (and I mean 4-5
>canvases/windows) that popup during this process already that require
>additional data entry and I hate to keep adding items to this block. It
>just looks SO UNWIELDY and UNMAINTAINABLE.
>
>Again, any suggestions would be Great, and thanks for all your help!!
Received on Mon Feb 05 2001 - 02:58:05 CET