OI Baby Steps - Popups (OpenInsight Specific)
At 04 JAN 2001 09:35:12PM Roy Drummond wrote:
I have just started crawling in the world of Windows and OI and am about ready to get back into my DOS bed and pull my AREV covers over my head.
I have created a table, OPTIONS, where I want to store all my coded data (states, countries, doc. types, whatever). Each type gets it's own record. I want a popup to display the options. I figured out how to create one in UI and selected 'Columns from a Row' for the source. I keep getting errors relating to 'format argument' (POP103, POP108, POP109) but do not know what a format argument is. Any and all help will be appreciated.
Roy
At 05 JAN 2001 12:55AM Donald Bakke wrote:
Roy,
Are you trying to display data that is @VM delimited or @FM delimited in your table row?
dbakke@srpcs.com
At 05 JAN 2001 06:29AM Roy Drummond wrote:
Don,
I am trying to popup a list of countries. COUNTRY is the key and field 1 contains the list, so they would be @VM. The problem centers around the popup Layout. Nothing seems to work.
Roy
At 05 JAN 2001 09:44AM Donald Bakke wrote:
Roy,
In the Source tab select "Column from a Row"
In the Selection tab where it says "Row ID and Column:" enter the name of the data row on line 1 and the number 1 (assuming your countries are in position 1, on line 2. Do not surround this information with anything like quotes or french braces.
In the Layout tab put the same column number (i.e. 1 probably) in the Column ID section and fill out the rest of this row as you see fit.
One final note, make sure you eliminate any blank rows in the edittable on the Layout tab section. The Popup logic tries to process these and can give you those nasty error messages.
dbakke@srpcs.com
At 06 JAN 2001 08:57AM mathuseenc wrote:
Don,
In the Source tab select "Column from a Row" - Done
In the Selection tab where it says "Row ID and Column:" enter the
name of the data row on line 1 and the number 1 - Donyour countries are in position 1, on line 2. - Done
Do not surround this information with anything like quotes or french braces. - Right
In the Layout tab put the same column number (i.e. 1 probably) - Done
in the Column ID section and fill out the rest of this row as you see
fit. - DoneWhen the preceeding is run I get the following error: POP108: Non-numeric field name %1% in format argument not allowed with mode F.
What is a format argument and the Format field in Layout is blank because the countries ar character data.
OI 3.7.2
Roy
At 06 JAN 2001 11:05AM Donald Bakke wrote:
Roy,
Can you email me a screen shot of your layout tab?
Also, your last post was authored by "mathuseenc". Just out of personal curiosity, are you connected to the home school curriculum "Math-U-See"? I checked their website and their is a Debbie Drummond who is a representative. I assume this is your wife.
BTW, we home educate and use this curriculum.
dbakke@srpcs.com