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Joe: Here's an "ask the experts" topic for you...
One of the techniques I use quite often in my report writing is to
pre-load responses into a select field. I do this, of course, by
calling a macro in the title of the report. For example, to pre-load
responses into the location field in an ADM.PAT report I will put this
code in that macro...
1^c.location["2E"],
1^c.location["3E"],
etc.
I want to take this concept one step futher... I want to be able to
have a report that has 2 selections, where the 1st selection determines
which set of locations gets pre-loaded into the 2nd selection!
For example,
Here's what the user will see when they run this report...
LOCATION SET _________
LOCATIONS _____
_____
_____
If the user enters a 1 at LOCATION SET, I want this to happen:
1^c.location["2E"],
1^c.location["3E"]
and here is what the user would see on their select screen:
LOCATION SET 1
LOCATIONS 2E
3E
But if the user enter 2 at LOCATION SET, I want this to happen:
1^c.location["4W"],
1^c.location["5E"],
1^c.location["ICU"]
and here is what the user would see on their select screen:
LOCATION SET 2
LOCATIONS 4W
5E
ICU
I can't write an IF statement to do this into the macro called from the
title because at that time LOCATION SET is not known. I can't write an
IF statement into a START macro because by then the select screen has
already been built. I need to be able to "reconstruct" the select
screen on a field-by-field basis as the user fills out the select
screen. Is there any way to inject code into a report between each step
from one selection field entry to another? If so, I'm thinking that
would be the place to write my IF statement. I hope all that made
sense.
Anyway... do you think something like this is possible? If so, I have
several creative uses in mind for just such a technique. Thanks for any
help you can give on this!
David McAllister, MT(ASCP)
Systems Analyst/Programmer
Jeff Anderson Reg. Med. Ctr.
Meridian, Mississippi
Office: 601-553-6027 (M-F 0500-1330 central)
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. I wish I could be 6 places at once! There are so many great
workshops all scheduled at the same time on Tuesday afternoon that it is
almost impossible to select just one! At future conferences, I think it
would be great if all of these terrific workshop offerings could be
repeated such that a person could attend more than just one of them!
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