Thank you both for the responses. I've always skipped over the service action docs thinking it was web services-- I'm trying the service action first since I don't want to have to modify any records or do any push fields operations, if I can avoid it. I can't get it to work so far, though.

FormA: Display only FieldA, Set Fields Filter triggers on Get Entry and (now) Service. The data is retrieved from SQL command. (this part works when you are looking at FormA) FormB: Display only FieldB. Service Action Filter triggers on Get Entry. Service Action is setup to use FormA as the source. Input mapping is my join on UserID to retrieve FieldA. Output mapping is the data returned, FieldA to FieldB. I've tried Request ID: blank and Request Id: Request ID on the Service Action as well. No difference.

I'm sure I'm missing something because it doesn't seem to do anything at all. I've tried adding a Set Fields after the Service Action that sets the field from Current Transaction to be FieldB=FieldB (grasping at straws). I keep finding references to using Service Action in Active Links. I'm using Filters only, but the documentation seems to suggest it doesn't matter.

Thanks for any advice.  I will keep looking for some examples too.

Brien

On 10/4/2011 11:30 AM, Misi Mladoniczky wrote:
Hi,

There are three types of operations that gets data I guess.
1. GetEntry in variouse ways, that triggers get-entry-fitlers
2. GetListEntryWithFields and some alternatives that do NOT trigger the
get-entry-filters
3. Internal Filter Set Fields that do NOT trigger the get-entry-filters

In you case, I would suggest that you create a service-call instead, that
can leverage anything you want on FormA.

Read the Workflo Guide if you are not sure how the Service-action works.
It is really very simple to use.

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ARS 7.5 P7

I have a form (formA) that sets a field on "Get Entry".  This works
great when looking at records or running reports on FormA, even if the
field is display only.

Is there any reason why this filter wouldn't execute from another form
(FormB) performing a Set Fields operation of its own and using FormA as
its data source?  Checking Filter logs, the GET event doesn't get
triggered for FormA when FormB is doing its Set Fields operation, so I
don't think this is a phasing or execution order problem.  I cannot find
in the documentation whether this is expected behavior.

A little background, I want to pull in one piece of Customer data from
an external DB (cell phone #)  but make sure that it is fresh whenever
it is displayed. So, I have a display only field on FormA that is set on
Get Entry using a SQL command data source.  This works great when
viewing FormA.  Now I want to make that visible on FormB.  I can't.  I
could setup the same DB Set Fields call on FormB, but I would need the
same key fields on that form to do the same SQL command.  I could also
bring in the external DB as a view form and join that to FormA and then
go from there, but it seems more complex than it needs to be for just
this one piece of data.

Any ideas?

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