This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C024CC.2948C69C Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hey Matt... You should download the online manuals from um....Cognos...they're great... Anyway, the SEP command is to dictate the seperator in date fields. (Or am I thinking of something else) Louis A couple of quick and dirty alternatives.... Why not add a dummy field prior to the entry field, that will be bypassed by the "skip"... or... Override the entry procedure, and if the field is a null entry, accept the field a second time...? (if you need to retain the ";" as part of the data, add it in after) Regards Dave -----Original Message----- From: Ohmes, Matt [mailto:Matt.Ohmes@COGNOS.com] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 2:17 PM To: 'Louis BROUILLETTE'; powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu Subject: RE: Reading magnetic strip card I'm a little rusty and I don't have a manual with me, but you should be able to call the SEP (separator) command. That is a command the user can call to change the ";" to any other single character. Hope that helps. :-) Matt Matt.Ohmes@Cognos.Com Cognos Corporation 909 E. Las Colinas Blvd. Suite 1900 Irving, TX 75039 214-259-6200 "Matt doesn't really know anything. He just likes to pontificate a lot. We refuse to acknowledge that he works for Cognos or that we have ever met him or anyone with whom he's ever been associated. Don't lend him money and don't let him talk to your sister!" ;-) -----Original Message----- From: Louis BROUILLETTE [mailto:Louis_Brouillette@UQTR.UQuebec.CA] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 2:11 PM To: powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu Subject: Reading magnetic strip card Hi everyone, I'm trying to read a magnetic strip containing the student id into a quick screen. My problem is that the string that I read begins with a ";", the command separator. It causes the entry field to be skipped. I can't change the separator character in the qkgo because users would kill me. So my question is: Is there a way to disable the separator character (or change it to something else) for the period of time the input procedure is executed ? Louis Brouillette Analyste en informatique (DBA) Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres Tel: (819) 376-5011 ext. 2435 Email: Louis_Brouillette@uqtr.uquebec.ca = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Subscribe: "subscribe powerh-l" in message body to majordomo@lists.swau.edu Unsubscribe: "unsubscribe powerh-l" in message to majordomo@lists.swau.edu This list is closed, thus to post to the list, you must be a subscriber. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Subscribe: "subscribe powerh-l" in message body to majordomo@lists.swau.edu Unsubscribe: "unsubscribe powerh-l" in message to majordomo@lists.swau.edu This list is closed, thus to post to the list, you must be a subscriber. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C024CC.2948C69C Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">RE: Reading magnetic strip card Hey Matt...
You should download the online manuals from = um....Cognos...they're great...
Anyway, the SEP command is to dictate the seperator = in date fields. (Or am I thinking of something else)
Louis
A couple of quick and dirty alternatives....
Why not add a dummy field prior to the entry field, = that will be bypassed by the "skip"...
or...
Override the entry procedure, and if the field is a = null entry, accept the field a second time...?
(if you need to retain the ";" as part of = the data, add it in after)Regards
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Ohmes, Matt [mailto:Matt.Ohmes@COGNOS.com]<= /FONT>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 2:17 PM
To: 'Louis BROUILLETTE'; = powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu
Subject: RE: Reading magnetic strip card
I'm a little rusty and I don't have a manual with me, = but you should be able
to call the SEP (separator) command. That is a = command the user can call to
change the ";" to any other single = character.
Hope that helps. :-)
MattMatt.Ohmes@Cognos.Com
Cognos Corporation
909 E. Las Colinas Blvd.
Suite 1900
Irving, TX 75039
214-259-6200
"Matt doesn't really know anything. He = just likes to pontificate a lot.
We refuse to acknowledge that he works for Cognos or = that we have ever
met him or anyone with whom he's ever been = associated. Don't lend him
money and don't let him talk to your sister!" = ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Louis BROUILLETTE [mailto:Louis_Brouillet= te@UQTR.UQuebec.CA]
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 2:11 PM
To: powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu
Subject: Reading magnetic strip card
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to read a magnetic strip containing the = student id into a quick
screen.
My problem is that the string that I read begins = with a ";", the command
separator. It causes the entry field to be = skipped. I can't change the
separator character in the qkgo because users would = kill me. So my
question is: Is there a way to disable the separator = character (or change
it to something else) for the period of time the = input procedure is executed
?Louis Brouillette
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