I try to show on a browsedialog a column from a related table (example: Custeomers.IdCountry --> show Country.Description) without sucess, how I can accomplish this? thanks!



- Fabian

This is the entire purpose of an InformationPanel.  This allows you to show any information that you want from any BO versus just the BO associated with the Browse.  I recommend looking at the BrowseDialog sample and the CRM Application sample.  Both of these show how to use an InformationPanel.

Thanks for you reply



If I dont like to use the information panel and see it on a column, can I do this?

example: show the country.Description (idCountry in my customer table)

I can fill the business object with a inner join or something else or I can´t do that?



thanks for all your help



- Fabian

Yes.  You can use a view or an inner join and bring in the data as you please.  So you can do what you had described.  One thing to remember when you do this though, is that when you click OK to select your record, the browse BO copies itself into the BO on your form using the CopyDataFrom() method on the BO.  So if you have fields in your browse table that you do not want in your run-time table, you will want to clean this up in the BrowseClosed event or something.  Just FYI

Thanks for you reply



Can you give me a example of how I can access the BO of the browsedialog to set the method (ex: "FullCustomers") with the inner join / view / sp and the browsedialog show the related columns?



Sorry if those questions are basic and common, I´m learning all I can of Strataframe but don´t have yet learned those stuff like this thing.



[ and Sorry for my bad english, I speak in spanish ]

Your English is great....MUCH better than my Spanish!   What I would probably do is create a view and then create a BO that represents that view.  Then in the BrowseClosed event of the BrowseDialog, I would take the primary key of the returned record and pull the actual record for the run-time BO.  Does that make sense?  If not, let me know and I will go into more detail.

This alternative sound great, but I don' t know how to create a BO from a View

please can you give me some light about this?



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- Fabian

First, you will need to create your view.  If you are using the Database Deployment Toolkit you can deploy your view, but the BO Mapper will not allow you to choose the view from the DDT.  In order to choose a view through the BO Mapper, you must select the view directly from the SQL Server database.  You can overwrite the connection on a per BO basis so you will just need to provide the connection to the server where the view resides.  After that, there is no difference.  You will then use the BO that represents the view in your BrowseDialog.  Once the record is selected, you will then want to handle the BrowseDialogClosed event and then populate the BO on the form:

So here are the steps:

1. Create a view and make sure that it is deployed to your server
2. Create a new BO
3. Map the view directly from the SQL Server to the new BO
4. Attach your view BO to the browse dialog
5. Drop a "temporary" view BO on your form and select this as your BO instance on your BrowseDialog.  This is represented in the MyViewBO in the code above
6. Once a record is selected within the Browse, load your form BO with the proper record.  This is the code sample above.

I followed all the steps it appears to work but I have a problem in

Private Sub brwProvincias_BrowseDialogClosed(ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles brwProvincias.BrowseDialogClosed

Me.ProvinciasBO1.FillByPrimaryKey(Me.ProvinciasVistaBO1.IdProvincia)
'Me.ProvinciasBO1.FillByPrimaryKey(Me.ProvinciasVistaBO1.PrimaryKeyField)

End Sub

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it give me 0 in the value of Me.ProvinciasVistaBO1.IdProvincia (my "Form BO primaryKey")

i created a "ViewBO" and dropped a instance on the form (viewBO1), set the browsedialog to populate it.

Thanks
- Fabian

I am a bit unclear on your last post.  Are you indicating that the primary key in the ProvinciasVistaBO1 is zero so when you try to fill the Provincias BO you do not get any records?  Do you have any records in the ProvinciasVista BO at all in the BrowseDialogClosed method?