Thank you, Frederick, Andrew and Frank, for your replies. I got waylaid and hope we haven’t lost our train of thot.
What I am trying to do is: 1. Let the user hi-lite some rows in a table. When the entry is saved, write a list of hi-lited rows into a field, which is saved with the record. 2. When the record is displayed, read the field and use the value in the field to hi-lite the same rows that were selected in the previous session. The first step turned out to ridiculously simple. All I had to do is have an Active Link call a guide that does a table loop and “Table Loop Selected Rows Only,” and it creates a neat little list of hi-lited rows. I think Step 2 is impossible. As Frederick has pointed out “you [can] not set the highlite on multiple rows thru workflow,” The “Workflow Objects” 7.1 manual, p223 shows how to select a row by setting the value of the table field to the desired row number. But it says nothing about selecting multiple rows (ie simulating a cntrl-click). It also appears that you can’t even read a table on Display. My storage field keeps a list based on an “Entry ID col” field in the table. I set up an Active Link to set the table to 0 on Display (un-hilite the first row), then call a guide that walks the table, and if the field where I was storing the values is “LIKE “%” + $Entry ID col$ + “%”", display a message with the value in the “Entry ID col”. The message displayed for every row, whether the values matched or not, but the “Entry ID col” value was null. The table didn’t fill till the messages stopped displaying, and when it did, the first row was hi-lited. It appears that the “Display” Active Links fire before the tables are filled, so you really can’t get any info from a table when a record is displayed. I am used to telling my customers that “Remedy can do anything!” But it looks like I have hit a dead end this time. Could someone please prove me wrong. Dwayne Martin ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:28:47 -0500 >From: "Grooms, Frederick W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Walking table, reading and setting hi-liting rows >To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > > ** > In 6.3 I tried to do just what Dwayne is wanting and > found you could not set the highlite on multiple > rows thru workflow. I had to settle with making a > "Selected" column and displaying that when > re-displaying the list to the user. > > Fred > > ------------------------------------------------ > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank > Caruso > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:35 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: Walking table, reading and setting > hi-liting rows > ** I do not have the 7 docs handy but I know there > is lot of information in the 6.3 docs about table > walking, specifically about what you are asking. > > 1. Remedy knows if the row is selected using the > $ROWSELECTED$ keyword. I believe it even knows which > row was selected as the primary and which was > selected as the secondary. > > 2. In order to highlite a row you need to reference > the table name and a row number in a set fields > action. > > Page 659 in 6.3 basic guide has everything you need > to know. Look for a Workflow Extras section in the 7 > docs. > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Dwayne Martin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear List, > I am sure this is spelled out very plainly in the > documentation, but I can't seem to find it. > > I want the user to be able to hi-lite table rows, > save the entry, and have those same table rows > hi-lited when the entry is re-displayed. > > So the user will cntl-click several rows to > hi-lite them. Then on save, an Active Link Guide > will walk the table, and if the row is hi-lited it > will write the Entry ID for the row into a Char > field. > > But how does it know if the row is hi-lited? > > On Display, another AL Guide will walk the table, > and if Char Field is LIKE "%" + 'Entry ID col' + > "%" it will hi-lite the row. > > But how does it do that? > > Actually, I'd be happy if somebody could point out > where this is explained in the manual. > > (ARS 7.1, RH Linux server, Oracle 10.2 db) > Dwayne Martin > James Madison University > > __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: > "Where the Answers Are" html___ __Platinum Sponsor: > www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > html___
