mark cards by finding -- a problem

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Timothy,

Obviously you are coming from HyperCard...
With Rev there are no "bg" fields (neither card fields) but only fields.
Check the topics section in the docs named "Groups and Backgrounds"
It might help you to understand how Rev handles "bgs"... which do not  
exist with Rev ;-)
That's the reason why your script does not work.

Le 7 juil. 05 à 22:06, Timothy Miller a écrit :

> Hi, my name is Tim. I am a hair-ripper. I haven't ripped for, uh,  
> three minutes.
>
> I'm stuck on this one. It's probably an obvious mistake but I've  
> checked, triple checked, etc.
>
> find patientName in field "patient name" works fine. It finds the  
> one record I expect it to find
>
> if I comment out that line and replace it with --
>
> mark cards by finding patientName in bg field "patient name"
>
> -- no cards get marked.
>
> Oops. I just made it work. Feel free to jump to end of message.
>
> The in between part of the message might be a dull cautionary tale  
> for newbies.
>
> It's possible this is a bug. If it's already well-known, or fixed  
> in 2.6, well, I feel stupid. I suppose there's an easy way to look  
> up well-known bugs in various versions. Anybody want to tell me how?
>
> I got as far as http://support.runrev.com/bugzilla/#searching and  
> then "1. Click the "query existing bug reports and enhancement  
> requests" link." Where the heck is the link?
>
>
>
> FWIW, here's the middle part:  *****************************
>
> I've checked the syntax. It looks okay. variable patientName  
> contains what it is supposed to contain. It has to, or the plain  
> "find" command wouldn't have worked.
>
> I've copied and pasted the variable name and the field name from  
> the line that works to the line that doesn't work, just to make  
> sure there were no misspellings or anything. No help.
>
> I tried adding
>
> go to card 1 of bg "record", so the script wouldn't try examining  
> field "patient name" on card where it didn't exist. No help.
>
> On a lark, I tried
>
> mark cards where patientName = value(bg field "patient name")
>
> On another lark, I tried mark cards by finding value(patientName)  
> in bg field "patient name"
>
> On a third lark I tried
>
> mark cards by finding "Jones, Bob" in bg field "patient name"
>
> None of the larks helped.
>
> I went back and tried
>
> find patientName in field "patient name" again.
>
> It works fine, just like before.
>
>
> ************************ End of middle part
>
> Here's how I got it to work:
>
> mark cards by finding string patientName in bg field "patient name"
>
>  -- does work!
>
> This seems like a good example of the woeful state of the  
> documentation.
>
> The documentation doesn't say that I can write "by finding string  
> patientName". It doesn't say that it's a good idea to write the  
> "mark cards by finding" command that way.
>
> I looked at the documentation again. It seems like "find normal"  
> would have worked anyway. In fact, "find normal" does work for  
> these fields and variables. Further investigation shows that "find  
> string" and "find whole" also work.
>
> variable patientname and bg field "patient name" are exact matches  
> in this case.
>
> Hmmm... I tried --
>
> mark cards by finding whole patientName in bg field "patient name"
>
> -- This doesn't work. It should, as far as I can tell.
>
> I dunno, maybe it's a bug. But every time I think I've found a bug,  
> it turns out I'm doing something wrong.
>
> Comments welcome
>
>
> Thank you for your kind concern.
>
>
> Tim

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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