Thad - Thank you for your detail. Perhaps I should state for aesthetic purposes that the form has quite a few Page Fields, with some embedded Page Fields so that only a small portion of the form is presented to the user at any one time. Each portion has sections for Oracle Responsiblities - such as those for Accounts Payables, Order Management etc.
As I have very limited Remedy training and no Remedy co-workers, perhaps you can clear up something for me. I see you mentioned the option of Table Loop in the filter. With my background a 'table' loop would search through each record in the table, searching for a matching parameter. Is this how a Table Loop in Remedy works, or does that search each field in one record? I like the fact that this example is little maintenance. My company is laying me off the end of January and I'm trying to leave Remedy in a good state. I've been automating quite a bit of the admin work and looking for ways to reduce work once there is no full time Remedy person. Thanks, Christine On Nov 3, 1:31 pm, Thad Esser <thad.es...@gmail.com> wrote: > Christine, > > I love a good puzzle, although "many, many, hundreds of checkboxes" scares > me. Anyway, how about this: > > Create a New Form to hold information about the checkbox fields: > Field ID > Field Label > Field Name > > Create a Table on your Request form that references the new form above, with > the following columns: > col_fieldid > col_fieldlabel > col_fieldname > > Create some display only fields on your Request form: > char - ztmp_currentfieldid > char - ztmp_currentfieldvalue (for this example, we'll say this > field has a fieldid of 536870002) > char - ztmp_currentfieldlabel > > Create the filters and the guide to hold them: > Filter guide > Filter 1`!: (note the phasing override) > Action 1: (sets temp fields from your table of fields) > Set ztmp_currentfieldid = col_fieldid > Set ztmp_currentfieldlabel = col_fieldlabel > Action 2: Run Process: > Application-Copy-Field-Value > 536870002 $ztmp_currentfieldid$ (note: this takes the value from the field > that has the fieldid that is stored in $ztmp_currentfieldid$, and copies it > to the ztmp_currentfieldvalue) > Filter 2`!: (note the phasing override) > Run if: $ztmp_currentfieldvalue$ != $NULL$ > Action 1: set summary = summary + "|" + > $ztmp_currentfieldlabel$ + ": " + $ztmp_currentfieldvalue$ > > Create a filter to call the guide: > Run If: $record summary$ = $NULL$ > Action 1: Call guide, with Table Loop checked, and the new table > above selected. > > And then a final filter to do an LTRIM or substring to remove the intial > carriage return that will be there > > This has the benefit of little code to maintain, and makes the list of > checkboxes data-driven. When you add a new checkbox, you don't need to > update any code, just add a record to that first form. > > Hopefully that gives you some other options to think about. > > Thad Esser > Remedy Developer > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Christine > <christineperryi...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > > > > > > I have a form with many, many checkboxes. When a person submits the > > form I want to walk just this record, evaluate each field for a value, > > if that value is != $NULL$ then I want to write the field title and > > the field value to a single, summary field I’m calling Record > > Summary. > > > Imagine a form with 4 checkboxes for color choices > > > Field names = Red, Blue, Green Black > > Field titles = “Color Red”, “Color Blue”, “Color Green” and “Color > > Black” > > The field attributes are correspondingly “Bright Red”, “Dark Blue”, > > “Faded Green” and “ReallyBlack”. This is the value that is written to > > the table when the checkbox is checked. > > > If the person submitting the record checks only the “Color Red” and > > “Color Black” boxes I want to write this to the summary field: > > Color Red: Bright Red > > Color Black: Really Black > > > I have a real kluge of this based on a filter working in dev. However, > > it is does not evaluate each field for a non-null value. I check to > > see if the Record Summary field is empty, if it is then I use this Set > > Field action on the Record Summary field: “$Red$ + "; " +”|” + $Blue > > $) + "; " +”|” + $Green$ + "; " +”|” $Black$ + "; " which > > results in: > > > Bright Red, > > , > > , > > Really Black > > > My form has hundreds of checkboxes for people to request AD Accounts, > > hardware, general software and Oracle Apps Responsibilities (this is > > the reason for the length of the form). As you can see using my kluge > > will result in an ugly text field for the help desk person to review. > > Many lines would just have the commas in them where the users didn’t > > make any choices. That is so even when I combine several checkbox > > field values on one line. > > > Plus, the processing just isn’t that elegant. > > > Can someone direct me to the correct process to use for this? Is there > > an example of this in a ACTL, Filter or Guide for me to review that > > might already be doing something like this? I keep reading the > > workflow manual about guides and looping and this just isn't clicking > > with me. (We have ARS 7.1.00, Change and Incident 7.0.03, and SRM 2.2) > > > Thanks, > > Christine > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives atwww.arslist.org > > attend wwrug11www.wwrug.comARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives atwww.arslist.org > attend wwrug11www.wwrug.comARSList: "Where the Answers Are"- Hide quoted text > - > > - Show quoted text - _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
