Retrieve name of object that called a form.

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Hello,

We have a form that we would like to customize based on what object calls it. How after a form is called can we see the name of the object that called it? Not finding a lot of direction on this but surely it must be possible because when running through the debugger I can see the parent objects names.

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Ivan (Vanya) Kashperuk on at

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In init method on the form, you can access it through

element.args().caller()

You can take a look at Classes\SysTableLookup\getCallerStringControl() for an example of how to handle different types of callers

In order to get the name of the form calling it, you could assign it to a variable of type FormRun, as shown in the above example

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Thanks so far I am having no luck though. The data I am trying to get is the name value here. So far I am unable to work out the proper reference to get that name.

NAME:

ELEMENT.callerForm.dialogObj.caller

VALUE:

new, CUSTOMCustAgingReportController

TYPE:

Object

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Andrew Xu 3,877 on at

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Try "element.args().callerFormControl().name()" to see if that's what you want.

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Negatory. This got me an error. I guess in the particular case I am working on I need the Class or the Menu item that called the form that the control is on. The closest thing I can explain it as is the Customer Aging form, we have a custom version that has the Sales Rep avalible as a filter, this is handled by a dropdown on the form that calls HCMWorkerLookup which gives them the opportunity to choose a rep. It is from the HCMWorkerLookup form that I want to find what called itself. So in this case it would be the output menu item CustomCustAgingBalance called the CustomCustAgingReportController class and that is what launched the dialog. I need the name CustomCustAgingReportController while in the HCMWorkerLookup so that I can ascertain if the HCMWorkerLookup should apply specific filters only needed for that instance.

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element.args().caller() will in this case return you the dialog form which had the control.

You need to assign this to a variable of type "Object" to skip the compile validation of method existence - I assume that on this dialog of yours there is a method called "callerForm" or dialogObj

Object dlgFrm;

Object (potentially this could be Dialog class) dlg;

Object controller;

dlgFrm = element.args().caller();

dlg = dlg.dialogObj();

controller = dlg.caller();

the type of the controller in this case should be CUSTOMCustAgingReportController, if I understood your description right.

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Andrew Xu 3,877 on at

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If you get an error, then try,

Form tempForm;

tempForm = element.args().caller();

if (tempForm != null)

{

tempForm.name();

}

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OrangeRocks 700 on at

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Hej,

what about if I want to define my caller from a table method and not from a Form?

An element.args().caller would work only in a form.

If I want to know the caller from a table method, then i would probably need args() as an argurment to that method, right?

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Mea_ 60,284 on at

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Hi Pam,

You can get args using something like this

if (this.isFormDataSource())

{

this.dataSource().formRun().args();

}

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OrangeRocks 700 on at

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Thanks,

it won't work for tables though. The debugger won't go into the condition. I am using it in a table method

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Can you please elaborate you question ?

If this.isFormDataSource() is false that means that table is not a form data source. So I assume that you are calling table method from a form. However tables does not have "args" so you cannot get a caller, you have to pass it explicitly as a parameter.

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