Ok...now this is really rusty in my head...so please forgive the cobwebs...but when Active Link Guides were first presented they were presented for exactly what you are talking about. Here is what I remember of the process
1 Create Button and AL that starts the guide 2a AL does a setfield to field 1 2b message action (ensuring to check that box that says something about displaying in prompt bar) that tells the user what to do in this field 2b wait action Repeat step 2 for each field. When the prompt bar checkbox is used it displays another area of the screen (at the bottom if I remember correctly) that displays the message. When they are done with that field they can either press Tab or a continue button that shows up in the prompt area. Then it goes to the next AL, so on and so forth until either the guide is exited (I think there is a cancel button automatically created) or you tell it to exit guide...or it finishes all of the AL's in the guide. It's a pain in the ass to setup but does exactly what Robert is looking for...the ability to provide field by field instructions. Please let me know if this is what you were looking for -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Halstead Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Guided Entry Ah, that would explain things a little. I haven't made those yet, however, I believe what your after is the wait if-action of an active link. I believe how this works is that wait halts the guide allowing you to perform some other actions. In the wait if-action you specify the label of the button the user will press to continue the guide. As I am in the process of thinking this through for our own company, here's what I got so far. The way I kind-of figured this would work is to use the active link guide in conjunction with a page holder. On each page the information is organized into sections and the user is prompted on each page what to fill out. The guide would be strictly used as flow control over the page holder and instead of popping up message boxes, each page would have a text trim field explaining the fields and the data the user is supposed to enter. The user would simple fill out the fields on the page and click the "continue" button to allow the guide to move to the next page and so on. On an overview of the entire form, this whole page holder "wizard" would be in a separate view, on the form that the wizard is on, so that as the user is filling out the actual fields and when they save, there would be no need for the developer to use a push fields action to push the data to another form as they would simply need to commit changes. After the save, or when ever the form needs to be displayed, the form would just be re-opened to the original view that laid out all the information in what ever way you had it the first place. Again, this is just a rough draft I have been circling in my head for a while now. I think this would get you in the right direction though =) On 7/27/07, Pargeter, Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I am trying is the Active Link Guides that will walk someone through how to fill out the form. We have a screen that some people only look at once every other month to once every 6 months. They think it is really hard to fill out but we need all the data. So, I was hope to build a set of guide that will walk them through what to put in each field. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Halstead > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 2:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Guided Entry > > Yes I have. Basically, the form selection is where the entry will reside. The entry point active link is the AL that is fired. It is important to note that by setting the entry point AL, it will override the list of active links that you can set on the second page when creating the guide. > > Usually if I need additional workflow to fire, I'll setup two guides: > One that is assigned the entry point active link, which in turn, calls another active link guide. > > You weren't very descriptive so I hope this helps. > > On 7/27/07, Pargeter, Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone built Guided Entry for MidTier 6.3? > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > __ _________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at > > www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" > > > > > -- > "A fool acts, regardless; knowing well that he is wrong. 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