You can use a Set Fields instead of Push Fields. Set Fields will run in Phase 1.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Dwayne Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear List, > > I have three forms: Main Form, Subfile Form and Info Form. > > On Submit, Main Form goes to Info Form to get a list of names for which it > needs to create Subfile Form records. Each Subfile Form record will have a > Name, and Main Form ID which links it to the Main Form. > > So “On Submit” a filter gets the names list, then calls a guide that parses > out the list. It retrieves each name into a temporary field, and does a > “Push Fields” to create a Subfile Form record. > > The problem is that calling the guide happens in Phase 1, but the Push > Fields happens in Phase 3. So, by the time the push fields happens, the > temporary field has been overwritten, and all Subfile records get the final > name. > > I could make the push fields happen in Phase 1, but the Main Form/Entry ID > won’t have been set. It would be nice if it could wait till Phase 3 to call > the guide, but I don’t know of any way of doing that. These entries are > being created via a web template, so I can’t use Active Links. > > One possibility would be to push both the Main Form/Entry ID and the Name > List to a Parsing Form with a single record, then let the Parsing Form > create the Subfile records. > > It seems needlessly complicated, but is there a better way? > > Dwayne Martin > James Madison University > > (ARS 7.1 Patch 3, RH Linux server, Oracle 10.2 db) > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
