Re: Indirect Reference

2004-03-08 Thread Rob Cozens
Morning all, I trashed the responses to this thread before I realized I had something to contribute: If the value sought is a custom function, not a group property, the function call must include () following the function name: get [the] functionNameIForgot() of group Only built-in

Re: Indirect Reference

2004-03-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, March 7, 2004, at 01:21 PM, Jim Carwardine wrote: put getTheDate(field it) into field it When I execute this statement, it contains... actionStepDueDate of group actionStep1 In this case, the engine is looking for a field whose name is all that is in 'it', that is, a name with

Re: Indirect Reference

2004-03-08 Thread Jim Carwardine
Yup and I have to admit I was working too hard over the weekend. I should have taken a break. Thanks for setting me straight. I was building a ship and all I needed was a row boat... Jim on 3/8/04 6:41 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: but in terms of indirection you're working too hard as the

Indirect Reference

2004-03-07 Thread Jim Carwardine
I¹m having trouble with something that should be very simple to do. Maybe someone can tell me what I¹m missing... I¹m building a reference to a specific field in a nested group in a scrolling group: get quote actionStepDueDate quote of group quote theGroup quote put