Reading magnetic strip card

[Whittall, Conrad]

No, actually the SEP command is to change the rapid-fire separator
character...as detailed on page 242 of the PowerHouse Language Rules manual
in the current PowerHouse Books documentation set.
 
Obviously Matt doesn't need the manuals...he can remember it all from memory
:-)

Best regards, 
Conrad 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Knox, Dave (Dallas, TX) [mailto:knoxda01@unisourcelink.com]
Sent: Friday 22 September 2000 15:35
To: 'Ohmes, Matt'; 'Louis BROUILLETTE'; powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu
Subject: 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
<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 

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Louis BROUILLETTE [ mailto:Louis_Brouillette@UQTR.UQuebec.CA
<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 


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