Dear Sir,

i have an employee form with several buttons, which provided function calls to several different forms. The problem is when i click on said "jobHistory" button to call "JobHistory" form, i would like this form to show me the selected employee record only according to employee form, instead of i have to search with the browse dialog for this employee.

kindly advice

Andrew

Hi Andrew.

Have you had a look at the ChildDialogFormSample solution that comes with StrataFrame? Under your Program Files folder, navigate to MicroFour and then StrataFrame. There you will find VB.BET/CSharp Samples folder, which will have the ChildFormDialog folder with the solution file. Once you get it open, have a look at the ParentForm "View Customer Notes" click event. That will give you a good idea of how this should be handled.

Cheers!

As Ivan said, check out the samples. SF provides several tools to help manage some common ways to manage data. The BrowseDialog provides a way to allow users to select a set of specific records, so only those records are loaded from the database.  The ChildFormDialog provides a way to manage child records, via a separate form. It manages the FK to the parent on the child forms and also manages saving the parent and children all at once. There are many other ways to manage records, most of which pretty easy to manage and all of which can be wired in to an application via the use of base forms, user controls, base BOs etc.  So take a look at the samples and help files, get an idea of what the BrowseDialog and ChildFormDialogs can do. At that point you'll likely have a better idea of what specific questions you might have and we'll be better able to help you at that point.

Dear All,

thansk for the kindly response and extra knowledge given. appreciate very much

Regards

Andrew

You're welcome, Andrew.