Browse Lookup in Selection Processing

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Joe Chasan
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:44 AM
> To: Chris Rendall
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Browse Lookup in Selection Processing
> 
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:26:08AM -0600, Chris Rendall wrote:
> > Is it not possible to do a browse lookup in a selection 
> processing?  I 
> > have an input popup field for the customer number, but if the user 
> > doesn't know the customer number I'd like them to be able to press 
> > enter and get a browse lookup window with a list of customers that 
> > they can choose from.
> > 
> > I coded the browse lookup but the code doesn't run in 
> selection processing.
> 
> browse lookups are not supported in the *report binaries, period.
> 
> you can either:
> a) have a *clerk wrapper around this report and pass the 
> selection criteria to *report by lots of ways, and do the 
> browse lookup in the clerk.
> b) have a simple getnext/get prev lookup with display to screen.
> c) emulate browse lookup using listbox.
>  
> -joe 
A 4th method would be to system out to the customer file allowing the clerk to
find the number and enter into the field.

My suggestion and having the least amount of programming pain, is Joe's A
suggestion.

The only thing to remember, if you are on *nix, is that when you use the system
command to run the report, you are using another "user".  If you have a 10 user
license and 9 active users, and you use system to run the report, you now have
10 users and no one else will be allowed to use fp until the job finishes or
someone logs out.  

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting