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TyptTo in Macro, Data being truncated

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Posted on by Dave May 65

Hope someone can help. I've got a Macro I need to populate a po in GP. Everything works perfect except the text I try and type into the comment section get''s cut off at some random spot. Are there any specific rules to using the "TypeTo" command?

Here's a example....

NewActiveWin dictionary 'default'  form 'POP_Comment_Entry' window 'POP_Comment_Entry' 
  MoveTo field 'Comment Text'
  TypeTo field 'Comment Text' , 'SHELL: 72" OD X 4~" X 1/2", SA-516-70N-SINGLE OUTSIDE 30 DEGREE BEVEL;-NO LAND (CIRC SEAMS); SINGLE OUTSIDE 30 DEGREE BEVEL -NO LAND, 1/8" GAP (LONG SEAM)'
  MoveTo field 'OK Button K'
  ClickHit field 'OK Button K'

So I would expect to see this in the comment window

SHELL: 72" OD X 4~" X 1/2", SA-516-70N-SINGLE OUTSIDE 30 DEGREE BEVEL;-NO LAND (CIRC SEAMS); SINGLE OUTSIDE 30 DEGREE BEVEL -NO LAND, 1/8" GAP (LONG SEAM)

but get this

SHELL: 72" OD X 4~" X 1/2", SA-516-70N-SINGLE OUTSIDE 30 DEGREE BEVEL;-NO LAND (CIRC SEAMS); SINGLE

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  • L Vail Profile Picture
    L Vail 65,271 on at

    Hi Dave,

    It's odd that it allowed 99 characters. When I tried running the macro with various lenghts of messages , including yours, it would cut off at 80 characters. That made sense to me only because Report Writer can only handle an 80 character string.

    I did it 12 times, and every time it was 80 characters (once it was 79). I used different text each time. I know it doesn't solve your problem, but I'm not surprised it is a problem. I tried some other Comment text fields and got the same result, 80 characters.

    This isn't the behaviour I was anticipating, but it's consistent. If you measure some of your other comments, do they cut off at 80 characters?

    Kind regards,

    Leslie

  • Dave May Profile Picture
    Dave May 65 on at

    Hi Leslie, thanks for the reply.

    It's odd because I thought that at first too but I was sure I wasn't getting the same number of characters every time, it depended on the string I was passing. I'll have to go back and check. I know for sure that you can copy paste that same string no problem and it saves. At first I got tripped up by the ' being in my string, hence the ~". I also made sure to strip out any returns, tabs etc..

    Hmmmmmm

  • L Vail Profile Picture
    L Vail 65,271 on at

    Dave,

    You're right about the copy and paste. It works every time in the non-macro real life world. I tried to use the paste command with the macro. The first couple of times it was no problem. Then I started getting an error saying the command had been disabled. When I lowered the character count, the error went away. I slowly increased the character count and then it was doing the paste with no problem.

    I couldn't get it to consistently error out on me, so I couldn't pinpoint the problem. The problem is definitely there. I also tried using a saved (blank) comment ID. That didn't seem to matter either.

    Have you been doing this before and it just stopped working? What build are you running? I'm on 11.00.2044, which I think is the most current.

    Kind regards,

    Leslie

  • Dave May Profile Picture
    Dave May 65 on at

    Leslie,

    I'm on version 11.00.1860. We just went "live" with GP so all of this is new.

    I've made a little progress. I tracked the comments to a table [POP10550] it looks like it splits the comment into 4 char(51) fields as well as keeping a copy in a text field (which is an old format). I tried spliting the same comment into lines and it works. I'm sure that if I tried enough different strings I would get some truncating but this should work for now.

    NewActiveWin dictionary 'default'  form 'POP_Comment_Entry' window 'POP_Comment_Entry' 
    MoveTo field 'Comment Text'
    TypeTo field 'Comment Text' , 'HEAD:(2) 72" OD X 2:1 S:E X 2" SF X 5/8" NOM (0.53125" MIN);'
    TNT_Event , '090039025100000000000200001ED9AA60ED' # cntrl chr
    TypeTo field 'Comment Text' , 'SA-516-70N; SINGLE OUTSIDE 30 DEGREE BEVEL; NO LAND'
    TNT_Event , '090039025100000000000200001ED9AA60ED' # cntrl chr
    TypeTo field 'Comment Text' , '(CIRC SEAM); HOT FORMED'
    MoveTo field 'OK Button K'
    ClickHit field 'OK Button K'

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