How to pass more than one record between two forms? - forms

Question

I want to pass more than one record between two forms. The user opens Form-A, selects multiple records and then clicks a button that opens Form-B.
In Form-B there are two (or more) StringEdit controls and they should display values from the selected records.
I know how to pass only one record, to do that I use the following code in a method of Form-B:
if (element.args().parmEnumType() == enumNum(NoYes)
&& element.args().parmEnum() == NoYes::Yes)
{
myTable = element.args().record();
stringEdit.text(myTable.Field);
}
How should I change my code so that I can set the text of another StringEdit control to the field value of the next record that the user selected?

Answer 1

To do this, you can use an args to pass the records, which you will need to prepare in your Form-A, as below (taking the SalesTable as example);
int recordsCount;
SalesTable salesTable;
container con;
Args args = newArgs();
// gets the total records selected
recordsCount = salesTable_ds.recordsMarked().lastIndex();
salesTable = salesTable_ds.getFirst(1);
while(salesTable)
{
// storing recid of selected record in container
con = conIns(con,1, salesTable.RecId);
salesTable = SampleTable_ds.getNext(); // moves to next record
}
// passing container converted to string
args.parm(con2Str(con,','));
Then on your Form-B, you will need to override the init() method to read the args you created,
In order to retrieve passed arguments in the recipient from. Override the init() method of new form as shown
public void init()
{
container con;
int i;
super();
// string to container
con = str2con(element.args().parm(),'','');
// for sorting
for(i = 1;i<= conLen(con) ;i++)
{
salesTable_ds.query().dataSourceTable(Tablenum(SalesTable)).addRange(fieldNum(SalesTable,RecId)).value(SysQuery::value(conPeek(con,i)));
}
}
Hope it helps.
Taken from Ax-Forum

Answer 2

This will typically imply looping through the selected records in Form-A and changing the query in Form-B.
The idiomatic way to loop through selected records involves a for loop and the getFirst and getNext methods of the datasource:
SalesLine sl;
FormDataSourcs ds = _salesLine.dataSource();
for (sl = ds.getFirst(true) ? ds.getFirst(true) : ds.cursor(); sl; sl = ds.getNext())
{
//Do your thing, add a query range
}
The MultiSelectionHelper class may be of use here, as it does the thing:
public void init()
{
MultiSelectionHelper ms;
super();
if (element.args() && element.args().caller() && element.args().record())
{
this.query().dataSourceTable(tableNum(SalesLine)).clearDynalinks();
ms = MultiSelectionHelper::createFromCaller(element.args().caller());
ms.createQueryRanges(this.query().dataSourceTable(tablenum(SalesLine)), fieldstr(SalesLine, InventTransId));
}
}