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Indigo04 Newbie Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Location: Bermuda Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Topic: Using a Text object in a formula Posted: 15 Mar 2007 at 9:09am
	Hi Is there a way to somehow get the value of a text object into a formula field? Basically I need to fill values in a report by an outside process in ASP. Is there some way to do this? Access in old ASP any kind of object in the report to later use this object inside a formula? thanks
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hilfy Admin Group Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3701	Posted: 15 Mar 2007 at 10:05am
	Can you use parameters instead of directly setting the values of the text objects? This way you would put the parameters on the report in place of the text boxes and you would have the parameter values available for use in formulas. -Dell
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Indigo04 Newbie Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Location: Bermuda Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Posted: 15 Mar 2007 at 10:22am
	Hi Dell, thank you for the reply. The question is if I can access these parameters in ASP. I know I can set values of text objects by iterating the crystal object sections and then ReportObjects, but what about these parameters? these values to be used in the formula have to be set in ASP.
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hilfy Admin Group Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3701	Posted: 15 Mar 2007 at 10:38am
	You can iterate through the parameters in ASP...We used to do it before we moved to the .NET viewer. Looking at the old code, you use the Parameterfields.getItembyName(<item>).SetCurrentValue where <item> is the name of the parameter that you want to set. There are two parameters to SetCurrentValue method - the value of the parameter and a number that indicates the type. We only pass integers and strings so our calls look like this: oRpt.Parameterfields.getItembyName(item).SetCurrentValue CInt(temp), 7 or oRpt.Parameterfields.getItembyName(item).SetCurrentValue CStr(temp), 12 You could find the information for other types of values on the BO developer website. -Dell Edited by hilfy - 15 Mar 2007 at 10:38am
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Indigo04 Newbie Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Location: Bermuda Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Posted: 18 Mar 2007 at 6:14am
	I can't manage to pass anything to the report. When I fill a parameter like this- objReport.Parameterfields.getItembyName("@Title").SetCurrentValue "TEST", 12 OR objReport.ParameterFields("@Title").SetCurrentValue("TEST") it doesn't appear to have a value when the report loads, and when I fill a formula field like this objReport.FormulaFields.getItembyName("@Title").Text = "TEST" and I place a blank formula of @Title in the report I get an error- The remaining text does not appear to be part of the formula
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Indigo04 Newbie Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Location: Bermuda Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Posted: 18 Mar 2007 at 8:14am
	Ok, I can fill a formula field using - chr(34) & "text" & chr(34) but ParameterFields No can do. No comprende. Going crazy here.
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hilfy Admin Group Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3701	Posted: 18 Mar 2007 at 3:40pm
	Try using CStr("TEST") -Dell
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hilfy Admin Group Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3701	Posted: 18 Mar 2007 at 3:41pm
	Also, are you calling .Load after setting the params? I think you may need to .Load, set the params, and then run the report. -Dell Edited by hilfy - 18 Mar 2007 at 3:50pm
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