Get the value of a field

Classic Servoy
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The user enters free text into the bak_search field, how do I then retrieve what they keyed in ? I’ve done the following but it doesn;t return the value they keyed into the search variable.

var search = forms.frm_itemList.bak_search
var searchStr = ‘%’ + search + ‘%’ ;

Aploogies if my questions are basic but Iam a high school teacher not a programmer evaluating the product for possible use student classes in our high school

thanks.

2

Hi,

Sounds that should simply work.
This bak_search field is that the name of the table column or the name of the field on the form ?
If it’s the columnname then forms.frm_itemList.bak_search should work. if it’s the element name then you need to address it like so:
forms.frm_itemList.elements.bak_search
But if it’s the element name you can simply address it’s dataprovider instead.

Hope this helps.

3

No its not a column of a table but an element, a field defined on the form. So if the user types the value XYZ I’d expect to see XYZ in the field.

So I changed the code to :

var search = forms.frm_itemList.elements.bak_search
var searchStr = ‘%’ + search + ‘%’ ;

but when I dispaly the contents of the variable search it is showing the following:

DataField[bak_search:globals.bak_search]

I want it to be XYZ as what the user keyed in not sure what all that reference to DataField etc is ??

4

Hi,

It sounds like you don’t have any dataprovider connected to this field. Servoy requires to have a field connected to a dataprovider (table column or a (form) global) to store any value.

5

Thanks for the hint on the data provider and global variable as I hadn’t set that up correctly.