how can I fill an autosearch field in RAP

rbuser

Gentlemen

I have a report created with autosearch fields. How can I fill these fields
in RAP, eg, intercept before the form is showed and fill the fields (and
preventing the user from editing it)?

Thanks

Marcos Cunha Lima
Brazil

digitalmetaphors

Use the RAP global OnCreate event to set the search expression values. To
make the search criteria non editable, you'll have to create a custom
autosearch dialog and control which fields are editable by using a RAP pass
through function. There are examples of creating a RAP pass through
function in the RAP demos of the RBuilder installation.

Your other alternative is to remove the field as an autosearch field and set
the criteria value on the dataview in code. Here is an example of
extracting the TdaSQL object to access the search criteria fields. Set the
field's Autosearch property to false. This way the field won't be used in
the autosearch dialog, but the criteria value you supply in code will be
used in the generation of the SQL for the report. Since the autosearch
fields have already been created, you'll need to free the ones that you are
going to turn off. There are two sets of objects, the dataviews'
SearchCritreia objects are persistent in the template as part of the
dataview. The autosearch fields are created at runtime and are not
persistent. The autosearch fields are used at runtime (created automatically
since you have dataviews with search criteria objects) in order to perform
the search, as shown in the autosearch demos.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/ExtractSQLObject.zip


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors