Running QTP from QUICK

[pickerij@norbord.com]

>We have a QUICK application that runs a series of QTP batch edits.
>The QTP edits used to be read only, but now have been changed
>to update one field based upon certain conditions.  When control
>is returned to the QUICK program and this field has been updated
>and the user tries to make a change, it displays the message
>'Record has changed since you found it'.
>
>We have considered different ways to get around this, but everything
>we look at entails lots of programming effort.   What we really want to
>do is when control returns from QTP to QUICK, we want to refind and
>redisplay the current record.
>Is this possible?
>
>PH 7.29.C8 MPE/ix 5.5

Yet another customer who needs my enhancement request to allow the PUSH   
verb to push a string of data onto the stack. With this you could push   
the key value and the FIND command and retrieve the same data again. I   
keep harping on this enhancement in the hopes that someday Cognos will   
listen.

Without it you've got some programming to do! I usually accomplish this   
sort of thing by either pushing just FIND or NEXT and letting the user   
re-enter the key value (which usually makes then very happy :-) or by   
putting a ghost screen in front of the real screen and passing the key   
value back and forth. The real screen then needs to use the passed value   
if it isn't blank or prompt for it if it is. The ghost screen passes a   
blank value in the first time and then looks at what it gets back. If the   
returned value is blank then it exits, otherwise it runs the real screen   
again. This usually requires messing with the PATH and FIND procedures a   
bit.

All of which work could be saved by enhancing the conditional command   
list to allow text strings!!! Have I said that before?

Regards,
John Pickering
JWP Systems Inc
Toronto


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