Getting Field Names from Form 1

[LWB]

I always seem to have questions!

I want to get the names of all the fields displayed on a form and put into an array. I tried:

MyForm.enumFieldNames(arFieldNames)

but that just gets the field names of one of the tables in the Data Model.

Since I now have a bunch of calculated fields on the form that are not in a table, is there an easy way to get the names of those fields into an array?

Lynn

 

[Kliot]

Lynn,

I think the only way to do it is with enumUIObjectNames(), here is some ugly code to do it.

method pushButton(var eventInfo Event)
var
f Form
ar, ar2 Array[] String
endVar

f.attach()
f.enumUIObjectNames("fieldNames&quot
tc.open("fieldNames&quot
scan tc for tc.objectClass = "Field":
tc.objectName.breakapart(ar2,".&quot
ar.addLast(ar2[2])
endscan
ar.view()
tc.close()
endMethod

Perrin

 

[LWB]

Perrin,

Thanks. I ran into a problem, however. All my fields are inside boxes (the ones I will color based on the field content) and your code picks up the box name and not the field name. I'm not sure why it would identify a box as a having a class type of "field".

Lynn

 

[Kliot]

Lynn,

If you open the table "fieldNames" I think you will see what's going on.

enumUIObjectNames() returns each object along with all of it's containers. I used breakapart to seperate the containers.

#Page2.#Field78
#Page2.#Box5.#Field78

Better code to catch the field name would have been
ar.addLast(ar2[ar2.size()])

Perrin

 

[LWB]

Perrin,

That did it. Thanks!

If it wasn't for you and Lance, I'd never get half this stuff figured out.

Lynn