How to reference the original value of a field on a form inside the modified method.

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Posted on by Adam Duckworth

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Hi,

Per the title. I've overridden the modified method on a StringEdit that references a CustAccount field to something like this

public boolean modified()
{
boolean ret;

ret = super();

    if ( ?????????? != this.valuestr())
        {
            ds_ProjectLine.CustAccountName = CustTable::find(this.valueStr()).Name;
            ds_ProjectLine.ContactPersonId = '';
            ds_ProjectLine.ContactPersonName = '';
        }

return ret;
}

I didn't have the if statement originally, but in testing if I clicked to change the CustAccount from 113875 and I selected 113875 (so no change) then it still fired and wiped out the ContactPerson values. So I just want to test against the original value. But how do I reference it???

I've read in forums that if I had this at the Table level and used the modifiedfield method then I could reference this.orig() but it feels more like I want to do this at the form level.

Any suggestions???

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I figured it out. Just cause I'm not in the table doesn't mean I can't use the orig() method.

This works how I want:

public boolean modified()
{
    boolean ret;

    ret = super();

    if (ds_ProjectLine.orig().CustAccount != ds_ProjectLine.CustAccount)
        {
            ds_ProjectLine.CustAccountName = CustTable::find(ds_ProjectLine.CustAccount).Name;
            ds_ProjectLine.ContactPersonId = '';
            ds_ProjectLine.ContactPersonName = '';
        }

    return ret;
}

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