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How to populate a Field Value based on another Field without using data source in Form

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Hi Guys,

I am looking for a solution on Age Calculation. Lets assume I have a Drop Dialog Box in which i am not attaching any datasource to the form. I manually added some fields in the design level (EmpId, EmpName, DOB, Age, etc., ). Now I want to write a logic for Age calculation based on Date of Birth. 

Here my problem occurs, I am overriding the modified method in Field Level(DOB) but i am unable to access remaining fields like age to assign in that method.

Why it is like that? Do anyone have solution for this?

Here is the screenshot of the design and form

https://www.screencast.com/t/rAleYgxWxD

Thanks in advance

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    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

    You have to set AutoDeclaration = Yes on the field control, then you can refer it by name to access the value of the control, like DateEdit.dateValue(). You may also refer current object with the this keyword, like in modified method of DateEdit, you could use this.dateValue().

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/formdatecontrol.datevalue.aspx

    I would recommend to take some development courses, or there are excellent books available in both print and electronic format.

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    Hi Vilmos,

                 Thanks for your reply. Actually I already set the AutoDeclaration to yes. But i want to access another field (Age) for which i already mentioned above property to yes but i am unable to access Age field.

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    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

    It works the same way, but a different method is returning the value you need, as Age.value().

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../formintcontrol.value.aspx

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    Its working but i am wondering that, the fields are not coming in the intellisense. Can you provide me the explanation behind the populating the fields in intellisense.

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    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

    IntelliSense in AX is a black box, sitting in the kernel, so you will not be able to get explanation on this. You could try to list variables, methods, definitions with Control+Space (in code and method parameters list) and Control+Shift+Space (in this case if you are in front of a brace character for a function), but IntelliSense sometimes does not pick up such controls, variables every time.

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    Community Member on at

    oh, Thanks for the info Vilmos.

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