[RBG7-L] - Re: GetProperty doesn't work

[Doug Hamilton]

Larry & Fran - Thanks for both your replies.  Larry, I had tried Next/Prior, Post, Update & Refresh thinking something had to goose the values but had not tried Edit.  Unfortunately, that didn't work either.  Then I reread Fran's 2nd reply and realized that GETPROPERTY wasn't what I needed [ponder].
[it must be do-able]
[it can't be that difficult]
[D'OH!]
Use an _expression_, dimbulb!  vfTaxKey = Taxkey
It works!  Thanks for nudging me of dead-center, Fran.  I was making it more difficult than necessary.  And thanks for the concise clarification of the Getproperty.

I think my Ocam's Razor is getting dull.

And my apologies for not explaining my intention as clearly as perhaps I should have.

Thanks again.
Doug



Lawrence Lustig wrote:

  I know this is a thread from last week or so, but GETPROPERTY still 
doesn't work for me in this EEP:

TRACE
GETPROPERTY CIDTaxKey TEXTVALUE 'vfTaxKey'
RETURN
    

How do I get it the value of TaxKey in the very first row before user 
edits the form?
    

Your syntax appears to me to be exactly correct.  I don't put TRACE in my EEPs
-- have you tried removing that?  In addition, just to ensure that I have the
component ID right in both places, I sometimes cut and paste from the property
screen for the component into the EEP -- and I sometimes find I forgot to put
any component ID at all on the component!

One final thing -- you mention that you are trying to get the value BEFORE the
user edits the row.  I think it should work the way you have it, but it might
be possible that the TEXTVALUE property is not populated until the row is
switched into EDIT mode.  So try adding:

PROPERTY TABLE YourTableName 'EDIT'

right before the GETPROPERTY command.
--
Larry