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Open Form Record from within a Procedure

You can use SQL commands to open a given form and retrieve a given record. This is useful, for instance, when you want to create a new Action from the Sales Orders form that will open a customer shipment. In this example, once the document is successfully opened, the Customer Shipments form opens and the new document is retrieved automatically.

The following gives some basic guidelines for creating such an Action:

Define an interface (e.g., YUVV_OPENDOC_D) using the GENERALLOAD load table to open the DOCUMENTS_D form. In the interface definition, the TEXT1 column will update the ORDNAME column in the DOCUMENTS_D form.
Create a procedure that runs the interface, and make it an Action from the ORDERS form. The procedure should include an INPUT step with a PAR parameter of LINE type, taken from the ORDERS table (where Column Name = ORDNAME). In the procedure, record the following in the SQLI step:

LINK ORDERS TO :$.PAR;
ERRMSG 1 WHERE :RETVAL <= 0;

:ORDNAME = '';
SELECT ORDNAME INTO :ORDNAME 
FROM ORDERS 
WHERE ORD <> 0;

UNLINK ORDERS;
ERRMSG 2 WHERE :ORDNAME = '';

LINK GENERALLOAD TO :$.GEN;
ERRMSG 1 WHERE :RETVAL <= 0;

INSERT INTO GENERALLOAD(LINE,RECORDTYPE,TEXT1)
VALUES(1,'1',:ORDNAME);

EXECUTE INTERFACE 'YUVV_OPENDOC_D',SQL.TMPFILE,'-L',:$.GEN;

:DOCNO = '';
SELECT DOCNO INTO :DOCNO 
FROM DOCUMENTS 
WHERE TYPE = 'D' 
AND DOC = (SELECT ATOI(KEY1) 
FROM GENERALLOAD 
WHERE LINE = 1 
AND LOADED = 'Y');

UNLINK GENERALLOAD;
ERRMSG 3 WHERE :DOCNO = '';

:$.DNO = :DOCNO; /* :$.DNO will be used in the next 
step to open the ORDERS form in a web client - see below */

GOTO 9 WHERE :SQL.NET = 1;

/* to open the form and retrieve newly created
record in Windows client: */
EXECUTE WINFORM 'DOCUMENTS_D','',:DOCNO, '','2';

LABEL 9;

If you are working with the Priority web interface, add another procedure step that is not executed in the Windows client (use the GOTO procedure step to skip it). In this additional step, the Entity Name = ORDERS and the Type = F. In the Procedure Parameters sub-level form, add the parameter DNO (with type CHAR).

Open Form Record from within a Procedure

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