Joe: Thanks Joe I hadn't thought of it. This field is "Assigned To Group", so not allowing typing is perhaps not feasible (to allowd them to do leading search), but in other situations it's a good (and I guess "modern") solution.
--- Joe DeSouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Instead of patterning the field to $MENU$ why dont > you use the Display-Type as a drop down then.. it > works exactly the way $MENU$ was designed to work > except that you can't type into the field but select > from the menu only... > > Cheers > > Joe D'Souza > Remedy Developer / Consultant, > BearingPoint, > Virginia. > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Rabi Tripathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:11:54 PM > Subject: ARS 7 bug: $SCHEMA$ on menu qualification > > > I just figured out that if you have $SCHEMA$ keyword > on any menu's qualification, it behaves very > differently in ARS 7 (vs ARS 5, and perhaps ARS 6.x > as well). > > In older versions, $SCHEMA$ always expanded to the > name of the form where it is attached. In 7.x it > gets two different values, depending on the context. > > For example if a menu gets its values from > MenuSource form and is attached to forms Form1 and > Form2 $SCHEMA$ in the menu's qualification always > expanded to mean Form1 or Form2, depending on which > form are you at. > > Not any more. In 7, when the menu is opened on any > form , say Form1, $MENU$ in the menu's qualification > still expands to "Form1" and you get the expected > values in the menu. > > However, if you have $MENU$ specified as the pattern > for the field (fields's Properties, Attributes tab) > save operation will most likely fail because $MENU$ > expands to "MenuSource". > > It broke my old workflow, so I need to redesign my > menus to not have $SCHEMA$. Fun. > > I have ARS 7.0.1 p1, AIX 5.2, Oracle 9.x. I tested > with windows client only. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate > in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. > http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367 > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at > www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
