Ligthswitch 2013 Set value ACB when launching from another screen - autocomplete

I have a search screen called TimesheetsByjob. This is based on a query called TSByJob and has one parameter called JobID. Normally the user will just open this screen and select a job. The ACB's JobID field is bound to the query parameter JobID.
I now want to add a button in the timesheet entry form to open this search screen from a button. Obviously, I know what the JobID is, so I want to (and the user will expect me to) preset the JobID instead of them having to select it from the ACB.
In the timesheet entry form my button as this is the Execute code:
int JobID = TimesheetProperty.Job.ID;
Application.Current.ShowSearchTSByJob();
I want to pass a param, but the method doesn't expect one.
Is there a way to overload the method to accept a param (if so where would I do that), or is there another way to do it other than making a 100% duplicate of the search screen and using a local property?
Regards
mark

In your SearchTSByJob screen, add a local property of the type you require. In that local property's Properties, check "Is Parameter".
Now you can pass a parameter to that screen. If you have multiple, Intellisense will tell you the order it expects.
int JobID = TimesheetProperty.Job.ID;
Application.Current.ShowSearchTSByJob(JobID);

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MS Access: Enter a specific text in a form using command button from another form

I would like to ask for your help on the following issue in MS Access.
I had created a form "CustomerListF", filled with command buttons for each client. For each button, I had created the following code:
Private Sub cmd_outlets_ABC_Click()
DoCmd.OpenForm "OrderFormF"
Forms!OrderFormF!Outlets = "ABC"
End Sub
The button would then open another form "OrderFormF" and enter "ABC" in the textbox named "Outlets". However, I realized the second line of code (Forms!OrderFormF!Outlets = "ABC") would always create a phantom record in my subform, which is located in "OrderFormF", and this record would travel to other clients' forms. This phantom record is usually created when the commandbutton is clicked twice (double clicks or subsequent clicks). It is a headache when the record starts to shift around.
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I would like to seek your advice for vba code to edit the second line of code.
Thank you.
This approach for filling the field in opened form is not good. OrderFormF initialization and second line of your code with assigning value to the field may be executed in different sequence, they are not synchronized.
In order to avoid this, you should pass the argument to OrderFormF by another way. I would recommend to use OpenArgs parameter:
DoCmd.OpenForm "OrderFormF",,,,,,"ABC"
And then in Load event of OrderFormF assign the value to textbox:
Me.Outlets = Me.OpenArgs
In this case the "ABC" value will be assigned to first row in the form or to new record, if form is empty. Before assigning you can select the row if you need to assign value not to the first row. Also this way will protect you against double click on button, Load event executed only once during first form opening

How to create a display,or similar, method with paramater?

in my myForm I call in a tableMY a displayMethod_fieldA.
In myForm I insered a some date in a DateEdit and I want to make a selection in table using the entered value. If I crete a displayMethod whit parameter I have an error.
Look like this code I get error:
display myEDTField displayMethod_fieldA (date _dateFromForm)
{
tableMY table;
select table
where table.item == this.item
&& table.dateTable == _dateFromForm;
return table.valueFieldA;
}
I have an error looklike this:
The display method has an incorrect parameter profile.
There is another way to display or set the value in my StrinEdit in Grid by method passing a parameter?
In web I saw the method modifier modifierMothod , but I need some more explanation. I don't know if this method is a right way.
Display methods are not designed with this feature.
display method for a table, form, report, or report design does not
have any parameters. For example: display Amount amount()
A display method for a form data source does require a parameter. You
use the
parameter to specify a table buffer. The type of the table buffer has
to match the type of the table in the form data source.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa595058.aspx
You can create the desired behaviour with an edit method (and setting the field to AllowEdit(false) or enabled(false).

Live search combo in Ext JS 4.2.2

I'm trying to implement a live search combo. It suppose to work like this:
When I enter a character into the combo field I read the current value and send it as a parameter to the store's url. In the backend the parameter is used to return any value from the database that contains it, so the store behind the combo gets filled only with those filtered values.
As I continue to enter characters into the combo, the parameter should be updated and sent again to the backend and so on, getting like this a smaller and smaller store.
I tryied to achieve this behaviour using the combo's event keypress, even keyup, but the problem is it's impossible for me to get access to the current value from the combo field.
For example, when I entered the "for" string into the combo, how can I obtain this value using the combo object? comboName.getValue() doesn't work, it returns nothing "".
I already saw the live combo example here: http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/4.2.2/#!/example/form/forum-search.html but doesnt help me at all.
So my big question is: how do i get the current value while still editing the combo's field?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
You should be able to use
comboName.getValue();
or
comboName.getRawValue();
Where comboName is your combo box. Are neither working- I note in your post you state getValues() which is an improper method. You may want to also check whether when you're referring to your combo box object, that the reference is actually correct. The first argument from the key events is actually the object itself, so you should be able to do, e.g.
listeners:{
keyup:function(comboBox){
var value = comboBox.getValue() || comboBox.getRawValue();
console.log(value);
}
}
Swapping you the value getting method as appropriate.
I found that the combo already has a quick search behaviour, I just have to set queryMode on 'remote' and some other small configurations. More details here:
Ext Js 4.2.2 combobox queryMode

ExtJS 4 - How to load grid store with its params carrying latest values from a form?

I have a window with a search form at the top and grid at the bottom.
User can enter values in the search form and click button - Get Records.
At the click of this button, I load the store of the grid by passing the values in form fields as parameters in following way:
store.load({
params:{
key1:Ext.getCmp('field1').getValue();
}
});
I tried giving parameters in the store proxy itself, but it unfortunately always takes up initial values (values when the form is rendered) and not the latest one entered by the users in the form fields. Following is the method I used for assigning values to params while creating the store:
extraParams:{
key1:Ext.getCmp('field1').getValue();
}
I wanted to seek guidance at two things:
a. While defining a store, can I ensure that store takes latest/current values from the form fields before querying server, so that I don't have to provide these values while calling load function?
This becomes more necessary as I have a paging toolbar at the bottom which carries a refresh button (along with next, last, previous, first icons for navigation).
Now, whenever user clicks at refresh (or any navigation icon), the store gets loaded without the query parameters.
Thus the second thing is:
b. If the answer of 'a' is that - Pass the latest values to parameters manually when calling load function - then how can I write the handler for 'refresh' button and navigation icons (that is, next, last, previous and first) in the paging toolbar, so that I can pass the latest form values to load function.
Thanks for any help in advance.
PS: I am using ExtJS 4.
yourStore.on('beforeload',function(store, operation,eOpts){
operation.params={
status:cmbStatus.getValue(),
value:txtBuscarPor.getValue(),
empresa:'saasd',
app:'dsads'
};
},this);
Related to your question (b) (and because you especially asked for this in the comments section):
I see only one standard way to hook into the PagingToolbar button handlers which is very limited.
Ext.toolbar.Paging fires a 'beforechange' event before it actually changes the current page. See API docs. A listener that returns false will stop the page change.
All other methods require extending Ext classes which wouldn't be a problem if the ComboBox would make it easier to use your own implementation of BoundList (which is the class that renders the dropdown) or pass through config parameters to BoundList resp. the paging toolbar.
I tried to bring this lack of flexibility up on the Ext message board once but was pretty much ignored.
A possible solution for this is to use 'beforeload' event of the store and provide the list of parameters in it. This way, whenever the store is loaded, then its beforeload event is fired and the values picked up are always the latest. Hope this helps someone looking for something similar.

Perl/Tk : Getting the selected value of option menu

I am developing one interface in Perl/Tk.
In that I am using one optionmenu to list the names of the users.
And while selecting the user from optionmenu it should display corresponding date of birth of the employee.
And I should be able to update the date of birth of the selected user.
I have written the following code.
$dob_label = $form_name -> Label(-text=>"BirthDay")->place(-x=>150,-y=>200);
$dob=$form_name->DateEntry(-width=>11,-parsecmd=>\&parse,-formatcmd=>\&format)->place(-x=>250,-y=>200);
$ename = $form_name->Optionmenu(-variable=>\$select_value,-options => [#names],
-command=>sub {&get_id_date($hash_ref,$eid,$dob,$_[-1])})->place(-x=>250, -y=>100);
$post_button=$form_name->Button(-text=>"Add",-command=>[\&Add_Birthday,$select_value,$dob,"edit"])->place(-x=>250,-y=>275);
The function get_id_date is used to get the id and dob of employee using the name of the employee.
It is returning the correct id and dob.
Then I edited the dob of the employee.
And I am calling Add_Birthday function to save the changes into database.
But what is the problem in this is,the variable $select_value is always having the value of first name in the optionmenu.
Actually it should have the value of the last selected item in the optionmenu.
So what is the problem in this code,
Please give the solution for this also.
Thanks in advance.
When you create the Button, you are passing the current value of $select_value to the button/command set up. By the time you press the button, the old value of $select_value has already been evaluated and set in the command argument list. You need to make your command a closure, so that $select_value is not evaluated until the button is pressed, e.g.:
-command => sub { Add_Birthday($select_value, "dob", $edit) }
For completeness, I should also mention that another way of doing this is to pass in references:
-command => [\&Add_Birthday, \$select_value, "dob", \$edit]
But that requires rewriting the function to accommodate the references in the argument list.