Seeing the past in QTP

[Pat Shugart]

Richard,

You may be able to use the concepts from this. I haven't used it in years, so I can't say whether or not it'll work with the most recent versions of PH or not but you never know. I do recall that I couldn't save data a record at a time * I had to break it up into each field.

Give it a shot, it may just work for you...

HTH


;*********************************************************************
;* Program Name: RECURSIV                                            *
;* Written By:   Patrick Shugart, Oaksoft Consulting/WL Software     *
;*                                                                   *
;* Description:                                                      *
;*   This program illustrates how you can "hold onto" the previous   *
;*   value of a field in QTP.                                        *
;*                                                                   *
;* Modification History:                                             *
;*                                                                   *
;*  Date    Who   Mod #   Description                                *
;*--------  ---  -------  -----------------------------------------  *
;*12/02/93  PRS           Initial implementation                     *
;*                                                                   *
;*********************************************************************

set input limit 10

run dummy

;These will 'carry over' the current value of the field to
;the next record.
global temporary g-prev-member# character * 12 initial ' '
global temporary g-prev-ssn     character * 10 initial ' '

;---------------------------------------------------------------------
request prev-record-demo

access member

;Initialize the hold fields if you so desire, otherwise, they
;will show up as empty.
item g-prev-member# initial member# of member
item g-prev-ssn     initial ssn     of member

;Here's where you could do some comparisons to the previous
;value of the fields and take action on it.
;define
;output/subfile
;select

;In this example, we'll write to a subfile and report on it
;later to prove we can hold onto the previous record.
subfile prevrec size 100 &
  include member# of member, &
          prev-member#, &
          ssn     of member, &
          prev-ssn

;Here's where we 'hold onto' the current value of the fields and
;they will carry over to the next record. IMPORTANT: These item
;statements must follow any/all output actions by QTP or this
;will not work.
item g-prev-member# = member# of member
item g-prev-ssn     = ssn     of member

;---------------------------------------------------------------------
;Next request or GO




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>>> "Richard Witkopp" <RWitkopp at phxa.com> 5/23/2006 2:18:04 PM >>>
How do I retain data from each record so that I can use it when reading
subsequent records? Essentially I want to have a temporary that eventually
contains a string that looks like this:
"data from 1st rec"  "data from 2nd rec"  "data from 3rd rec" ...

I'm an old crusty rusty Powerhoser that's been reincarnated, except for my
memory. I thought I had done this in the past, but I've forgotten many of
the quirks of Phouse.

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