In arev I pass a file name to a window using the following catalyst call

Call Catalyst("W","DEFINE_SURVEY", datafile=:RP_SURVEY:"_QUS") where "DEFINE_SURVEY" is the name of the Window and rp_survey is a variable containing the file name to be used by the window.

How can I do this in OI?

Thanks.

The short answer is, regretfully, programmatically. What you'd need to do is to use Start_window to get the structure, swap out the file name then create the window using Utility "CREATE". This could all be wrapped into a shell routine called say START_WINDOW_AREV which could be passed the name of the file to use.

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Neat.

Why thank you kind sir - we aim to please…

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Almost deflected me from my intented path today. So neat I thought I had to find a use for it.

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Well if you want to write a SENL article don't let us stop you .

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Sprezzatura,

Thanks for the information. It has saved me a great deal of time trying to replicate an one line AREV statement in OI!!

Thanks for the info. We've got the structure of the window, and reviewed the structure data, but find no reference to the data file attached to the window. How do we swap out the attached data file name with a new data filename?

Thanks.

Mark

We apologise. Assuming this is a single table entry form the fix is actually both simpler and more complex at the same time!

We'll outline the steps to the solution.

1) At the create event we need to establish "is a different table needed"

2) If it is we need to modify the window to use that table.

The easiest way to fulfill 1) is to pass a createParam in the original

Start_Window call. At its' simplest this could be simply

Call

Start_Window("MYWINDOW","PARENTWINDOW","NEWTABLE","","")

and in the Create_Event of the window

If Len(CreateParam) Then 

    WinId=@Window

    $Insert Oiwin_Comm_Init

    JoinMap@<1, 1]=TableName End

Were we to be providing this as a custom solution it is

more likely that we would provide a promoted event that looked at the createParam

and if it began say "DATAFILE=" we'd do the JoinMap@ logic. Then all

you'd have to do is

Call

Start_Window("MYWINDOW","PARENTWINDOW","DATAFILE=NEWTABLE","","")

and the promoted create event would handle it all for you - thus each new

window wouldn't need to be changed.

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Sprezzatura,

Shouldn't it be

If Len(CreateParam) Then

] WinId=@Window

] $Insert Oiwin_Comm_Init

] TableName=CreateParam

] JoinMap@=TableName

End

Something else: How do you manage to include the   entity in your postings? I never found out how to do that. Enclosing them in square brackets didn't work.

    Test   Test

If this works now Revelation must have fixed it when they upgraded the web site.

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Ouch - my bad! You are of course right…

As for blank spaces - I just did it in my HTML Editor, added top and tail bracket and pasted!

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Sprezzatura,

So the trick is to go easy on the square brackets? I always each . (As I said I gave up on the entities.) That's tedious work of course. To motivate myself I think of all the neighbouring characters that could be hurt by the sharp points of the angular brackets if I didn't cap them with square ones.

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Oystein- Centre for Humane Information Technology

What do those of your colleagues in the Inhumane Information Technology Centre do? Prod people viciously with keyboards?

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Use humans as keyboards.

Sounds fun - had to cut the rest of my response as this is a family forum

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