application.getMethodTriggerRelationName()

[gstein]

This would help me write more generic code.

[jcompagner]

a method will never be triggerd by a relation.. So can you give an example what you expect in what situation?

[gstein]

Sorry. Let me try to be more clear.

The application.getMethodTriggerFormName() method is a really great way of getting the name of the form of the element whose event that called the method.

What I would like is the same thing for relations. The application.getMethodTriggerRelationName() would return the name of the relation on which the form of the element whose event that called the method is based.

Or is there some way to get the relation of an existing form now?

[jcompagner]

so IF the form is showing a related foundset you would like to have the relation name on which that foundset is build?

[gstein]

Yes. And I guess the table name of the foundset if the form is not based on a relation.

[jcompagner]

then you then give the table name doesn't make much sense. Because then you don't know if the name is a relation or not.

But if you know if it is a relation and you know the name what would you do with it?

[gstein]

I would hope to do something like

databaseManager.refreshRecordFromDatabase(forms[myform].[myrel], -1)

instead of:

databaseManager.refreshRecordFromDatabase(forms.people.people_have_addresses_mailing, -1)

[jcompagner]

huh?
But that is something different. We where talking about getting the name of a relation that the form now displayes as its main foundset!
and i that case you just can do this:


databaseManager.refreshRecordFromDatabase(forms[myform].foundset, -1)

then it refreshes that foundset no matter what it is (related or head/main)

[gstein]

Oh. I didn't know that. Thanks!

[LOGIsoft]

I would like to start this thread going again, because I have a form with 35 portals on it, and I would like to capture the relation name once using a single method, instead of writing 35 methods to be able to affect the underlying records behind each portal following a trigger event. Is this at all possible?

TIA,

Ben