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Filtering lookup by form datasource

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Posted on by Community Member Microsoft Employee

Hi,

Here is the situation :

I have a form with a grid populated with ProdTable as datasource. This DS has some range for different purpose. I have created a lookup to continue filtering more and more my datasource. Until now, i have no problem, this works very well.

Now in addition, I want to filter my lookup based on my form datasource value. I want the values possible in my lookup are the values possible from data in my form datasource.

Exemple : 

Form datasource

Id Value
1 A
2 B
3 C

Lookup

Value
A
B
C

Form datasource

Id Value
1 A
3 C

Lookup

Value
A
C

Here is my lookup code

public void lookup()
{
    SysTableLookup          lookup;
    Query                   q = new Query();
    QueryBuildDataSource    qbds, qbds2, qbds3;
    QueryBuildRange         qbr;


    lookup = SysTableLookup::newParameters(tableNum(EcoResProduct), this);
    qbds = q.addDataSource(tableNum(EcoResProduct));
    
    qbds2 = qbds.addDataSource(tableNum(InventTable));
    qbds2.relations(true);
    qbds2.joinMode(JoinMode::InnerJoin);
    
    qbds3 = qbds2.addDataSource(tableNum(ProdTable));
    qbds3.relations(true);
    qbds3.joinMode(JoinMode::InnerJoin);
    
// QBDS3.prodId = ProdTable_DS.prodId

    qbds.addGroupByField(fieldNum(EcoResProduct, AVADiametreCirconscrit));
    lookup.addLookupField(fieldNum(EcoResProduct, AVADiametreCirconscrit));

    lookup.parmQuery(q);
    lookup.performFormLookup();
}


Can anyone help me to achieve this ?

Thank you, Stéphane M.

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  • Community member Profile Picture
    Community member 2 on at
    Filtering lookup by form datasource
    I've managed to achieve something like that using Query. e.g.
      
    SysTableLookup sysTablelookup;
//create a table lookup
sysTablelookup = SysTableLookup::newParameters(tableNum(SalesTable), _formStringControl);
sysTablelookup.addLookupfield(fieldNum(SalesTable, SalesId));
sysTableLookup.addLookupfield(fieldNum(SalesTable, SalesName));

Query query = new Query(queryStr(SalesTableQuery));

if (fieldControlSalesAgreement.value())
{
    QueryBuildDataSource qbds = query.dataSourceTable(tableNum(SalesAgreementHeader));
    qbds.addRange(fieldNum(SalesAgreementHeader, SalesNumberSequence)).value(fieldControlSalesAgreement.value());
}

sysTablelookup.parmQuery(query);
sysTablelookup.performFormLookup();
     
  • Community Member Profile Picture
    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Filtering lookup by form datasource

    Hmm ok you just demonstrate that I still have a lot to learn hahaha

    I will follow your advice, it seems good, Thank you again sir

  • Mea_ Profile Picture
    Mea_ 60,278 on at
    RE: Filtering lookup by form datasource

    So now you can follow my advice and group by field before going through all records in DS. Then you may try to insert these values into a temp table and join it instead of applying range. Another thing to try is to prepare range values outside of the lookup. Because if you have not changed data then range won't be changed, so no reason to get it each time.

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Filtering lookup by form datasource

    Here is my new code based on your suggestion :

    public void lookup()
{
    SysTableLookup          lookup;
    Query                   q = new Query(), q2 = new Query();
    QueryRun                qr;
    QueryBuildDataSource    qbds, qbds2, qbds3, qbds4;
    QueryBuildRange         qbr;
    String255               qValue;
    ProdTable               tmpProd;


    lookup = SysTableLookup::newParameters(tableNum(EcoResProduct), this);
    qbds = q.addDataSource(tableNum(EcoResProduct));
    

    qbds2 = qbds.addDataSource(tableNum(InventTable));
    qbds2.relations(true);
    qbds2.joinMode(JoinMode::InnerJoin);
    
    qbds3 = qbds2.addDataSource(tableNum(ProdTable));
    qbds3.relations(true);
    qbds3.joinMode(JoinMode::InnerJoin);
    
    q2  = ProdTable_DS.query();
    
    qr = new QueryRun(q2);
    
    while(qr.next())
    {
        tmpProd = qr.get(tableNum(ProdTable));
        
        if (qValue == "")
        {
            qValue = strFmt("%1", queryValue(tmpProd.ProdId));
        }
        
        qValue += strFmt(",%1", queryValue(tmpProd.ProdId));
    }
    
    qbr = qbds3.addRange(fieldNum(ProdTable, ProdId));
    qbr.value(qValue);
    
    
    qbds.addGroupByField(fieldNum(EcoResProduct, AVADiametreCirconscrit));

    lookup.addLookupField(fieldNum(EcoResProduct, AVADiametreCirconscrit));

    lookup.parmQuery(q);
    lookup.performFormLookup();
}

    Red text = new code
    This is working Thanks, but now I need to optimize this because my lookup take something like 2-3 secondes to display values.

    EDIT : Not sure if it will be possible to optimize a lot regarding to the query generated

    SELECT * 
FROM EcoResProduct(EcoResProduct_1) 
JOIN * FROM InventTable(InventTable_1) 
	ON EcoResProduct.RecId = InventTable.Product 
JOIN * FROM ProdTable(ProdTable_1) 
	ON InventTable.ItemId = ProdTable.ItemId 
	AND ((ProdId = N'OFM-0002534' OR ProdId = N'OFM-0002534' OR ProdId = N'OFM-0008418' OR .................))


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    Mea_ Profile Picture
    Mea_ 60,278 on at
    RE: Filtering lookup by form datasource

    You do not apply query as a range, you get all distinct values from current query and them apply this values as a range, so it's a 2 step process.

  • Community Member Profile Picture
    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Filtering lookup by form datasource

    Thank's for fast answer :)

    I know this is very strange, I said the same when my boss ask me this hahaha.

    I have tried something like your solution but I just had problem for applying a query as range, how to achieve this ?

  • Verified answer
    Mea_ Profile Picture
    Mea_ 60,278 on at
    RE: Filtering lookup by form datasource

    It's a very strange requirement. You can get current data source query using myTable_ds.query(), copy it, group it by field you want and select all unique values. Then apply range to lookup  to show only value you got on previous step.

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