Wkunneke
Active Member
Even though our production is currently on Cum 1, the following question refers to Xe.
I am developing a custom application that will wrap around the standard A/R module. I have a custom table built that ties to an A/R Invoice Document. For this table, I need 2 media objects, both of which are text. Both text media objects are read only and will be populated from extraneous data I need to pull in from extenal data sources. I can easily write the DLL to retrieve the data I need to populate the media objects, but I'm not sure how to push the text I retrieve into the media object.
I found a bsfn named AppendMediaObjectText and the documentation attached to it states "This function will take the incoming text field and append it to the media object on the form preceded by the system date and time and the user ID that entered the text for the media object." One problem is that I don't need, nor do I want the system date/time and user id prepended to my text. Also, I need to replace any existing text in the media object, not append it.
Any thoughts or ideas? I have done research, I'm not trying to take the lazy way out, I just don't know where to go from here. Any help is appreciated.
Bill Kunneke
City of Orlando Senior Developer
Live: B733.1 SP7.1
Oracle 805 AS400/DB2
Sandbox: XE SP15
Migrating Central Objects to AS400/DB2
I am developing a custom application that will wrap around the standard A/R module. I have a custom table built that ties to an A/R Invoice Document. For this table, I need 2 media objects, both of which are text. Both text media objects are read only and will be populated from extraneous data I need to pull in from extenal data sources. I can easily write the DLL to retrieve the data I need to populate the media objects, but I'm not sure how to push the text I retrieve into the media object.
I found a bsfn named AppendMediaObjectText and the documentation attached to it states "This function will take the incoming text field and append it to the media object on the form preceded by the system date and time and the user ID that entered the text for the media object." One problem is that I don't need, nor do I want the system date/time and user id prepended to my text. Also, I need to replace any existing text in the media object, not append it.
Any thoughts or ideas? I have done research, I'm not trying to take the lazy way out, I just don't know where to go from here. Any help is appreciated.
Bill Kunneke
City of Orlando Senior Developer
Live: B733.1 SP7.1
Oracle 805 AS400/DB2
Sandbox: XE SP15
Migrating Central Objects to AS400/DB2