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Modifying a Dexterity Form

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Posted on by Q 900

I am new to this so any help would be appreciated.

I have a third-party dictionary which contains (among other things) a
modified Purchase Order Acknowledgement (System form). I am trying to modify
the Dexterity script and deploy it.

I have tried to make a modification on the third-party dictionary and
Autochunk but I got “No forms dictionary to update No reports dictionary to
update” in the installerrors.txt when I drop the chunk file. I should also
mention the third-party dic has a product id of 1239.

Wen I open the third-party dictionary, it has the usual "string missing" but
I can't combine since the product id is less than 22000.

Thank you in advance.

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    Community Member on at

    Are you trying to customize a 3rd party form? You should be aware of the limits of this method, and it will be more practical to use an alternate approach, such as using VBA/continuum, or cross-dictionary scripts.

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    Q 900 on at

    Ruel,

    If a Consultant takes the Purchase Order Acknowledgement form, modifies it and puts it in a new dictionary, is that a 3rd party form?

  • Q Profile Picture
    Q 900 on at

    Mariano,

    1) In other words,So the previous Consultant already created an "alternative" version of the PO Ack form and placed it in a new dictionary, I should not modify this new dictionary and use triggers instead? Is this best practise or is it the only way technically?

     2)How would I manually moved them. Use the Developer Update? If you can give me some steps that would be great. I am using Dexterity Util 10.

     

    Thanks for your help so far.

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    Q 900 on at

    So I am playing around with "Trigger_RegisterFocusByName" to add more logic after a click of a button on that form. My problem right now is accessing the fields on the forms. How do I get the values off of the form?

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    Q 900 on at

    I understand but I tried to add a "warning" message of just "test" two ways with no luck, if:

    1) I create my script in the Dynamics.dic file , I can't compile my code since the form I want to attach to is in an another dictionary. I was able to to deploy and get the hardcoded "test" message to come up after I click the button.

    2)and if I create my script in the third-party dictionary, and go through the extract/autochunk, the chunk file seems to install but the "test" message doesn't come up. One thing to note that this thirdparty file has a lot of those "no source" message. Should I combine with dynamics.dic first?

     I appreciate your help and patiance, I know I am asking a lot of rookie stupid questions.

     Thanks.

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    Q, you were onto it about 3 posts up. In conjunction with cross-dictionary triggers, you can get values from the other dictionary at runtime by calling the execute() command. If you checked the link I gave you, there is a download link to sample scripts, I am putting the link here for your convenience:

     http://blogs.msdn.com/developingfordynamicsgp/attachment/8768896.ashx

    Check out the section on "Cross Dictionary Helper Functions", and the GetWindowValue function specifically.

    That should be one way to do it. 

    I hope this helps.

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    Q 900 on at

    I did download that, I am testing the GetWindowValue function right now. I will let you know how that goes.

     Thanks again

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