Prompt
Description
An Alpha Anywhere User Guide to the Desktop.
- Name
- Description
- Define Prompt Dialog
The purpose of the Define Prompt dialog is to define a prompt to the user. This prompt will collect information to use in a filter expression, which in turn will filter the records that the List View Genie or ADO Import Genie will return.
- Prompt for a Date
The Prompt for a Date action will prompt the user for a date and store it in a character variable. Use the CTOD() function to convert the result into a date value.
- Prompt for a Field Name
The Prompt for a Field Name action will prompt the user for a field name and store it in a variable.
- Prompt for a Filename
The Prompt for a Filename action will prompt the user for a filename and store it in a variable.
- Prompt for a Filter Expression
The Prompt for a Filter Expression action will prompt the user for a character filter expression. This type of expression evaluates to a logical value and selects records from the table.
- Prompt for a Folder Name
The Prompt for a Folder Name action will prompt the user for a folder name and store it in a variable.
- Prompt for a Number
The Prompt for a Number action will prompt the user for a number and store it in a character variable. Use the VAL() function on the result to get the number.
- Prompt for a Password
The Prompt for a Password action will prompt the user for a password and store it in a variable.
- Prompt for an Expression
The Prompt for an Expression action prompts the user for an expression and stores it in a variable.
- Prompt for an Order Expression
The Prompt for an Order Expression action will prompt the user for an order expression and store it in a variable.
- Prompt for Text
The Prompt for Text action will prompt the user for text and store it in a variable.
- Prompt Using Check Box List Box
The Prompt Using List Box action prompts the user with a list of options and stores the result in a text variable.
- Prompt Using List Box Dialog
The Prompt Using List Box action prompts the user with a list of options and stores the result in a text variable.
- Prompt Using Radio Buttons
The Prompt Using Radio Buttons action will prompt the user with a list of radio button choices and record the selected button in a text variable.