how to refer to form block items in a trigger

[bookouri]

Is there any way on a Form to refer to items of a block?
For example, I have a block :myemployees and items called name, address. In one trigger I want to store the name of the item I want to focus on. for example :tempblock.temp1 := 'name'
then I want to refer to that with something like
:myemployees||'.'||:tempblock.temp1 so that I end up with,
:myemployees.name. I cant seem to come up with any way to accomplish this. I can create a literal ':myemployees.name' but then I cant use that in my trigger. I would need to convert the literal to :myemployees.name somehow, and I cant seem to do that. I apologize that I cant explain it any better, but I would appreciate any help.

 

[sem]

Look at COPY and NAME_IN built-ins

Regards, Dima

 

[bookouri]

Thanks, Im not having much luck finding references to name_in and copy. Developer has a very small example in its help files, and that's about all I can find. It looks like what I need, I just need to find a good reference with some examples...

thanks

 

[sem]

You may find EXHAUSTIVE examples as well as complete descriptions of that built-ins in online help.

Regards, Dima

 

[bookouri]

I dont know about EXHAUSTIVE..<G> I found only two small example in online help, but I finally figured out how to use copy to do what i really needed.

thanks again for your help

 

[sem]

Do you need 100 pages of pure algebra to prove that 2*2=4 or just use this fact? The matter was so simple (and you proved it!), that I found 2 small examples to be EXHAUSTIVE.

Regards, Dima