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ADD_FORM_COMP ------ AFTER_CURRENT ----- What determines which form is the 'current' form?

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I know this question may sound trivial, but I am finding that the form I am currently looking at is not always regarded as the 'current' form when using an ADD_FORM_COMP button.

Consider this situation.....

I have forms A,B,C,D,E in an encounter type. On any given office visit, the user may enter clinical data in all 5 forms or he/she may skip one or more forms because it is not relevant to today's visit. Say the user enters data into form A, and on form A the user clicks a button to jump to form D. On form D, I have an ADD form component button set to add AFTER_CURRENT. When the user clicks the ADD form component button, the added form is inserted after form A so that the new list looks like: A,added_form,B,C,D,E. I wanted the list to be A,B,C,D,added_form,E.

However, if I close the form view at any time and select form D from the form list on the left, adding the form component works as desired : A,B,C,D,added_form,E

What are the criteria for how the ADD_FORM_COMP() function determines the 'current' form?

Posted : October 23, 2012 12:05 am

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I was thinking of using getfield() and get_form_list() to generate an array of form names, looping through the array, and determining the index of the form I'm looking at. Then I can use the ordinal number version of ADD_FORM_COMP() to select where to add the form I need to add. This just seems like way to much work for something so simple, but I think I can do it.

Posted : October 23, 2012 12:14 am

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I used:

{

fn get_form_num(form_name)

{

local form_list = ""

local form_array = ""

local i = ""

local j = ""

form_list = get_form_list()

form_array = getfield(form_list,"|","")

for i=1, i<size(form_array), i=i+1

form_array[i] = getfield(form_array[i],"^","")

endfor

for i=1, i<size(form_array), i=i+1

if(form_array[i][2]==form_name)then

BREAK

endif

endfor

return str(i)

}

to get the position of the form I'm currently looking at....

Then, I used ADD_FORM_COMP() and, instead of "AFTER_CURRENT", I used i+1 as the ordinal number to insert. This works how I want it to, but still seems like an unnecessary amount of work to me.

Posted : October 23, 2012 1:28 am

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the forms list doesn't always get updated appropriately when adding forms. I've told GE about it many times.

Posted : October 23, 2012 2:03 am

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jrea said:

I used:

{

fn get_form_num(form_name)

{

local form_list = ""

local form_array = ""

local i = ""

local j = ""

form_list = get_form_list()

form_array = getfield(form_list,"|","")

for i=1, i<size(form_array), i=i+1

do

form_array[i] = getfield(form_array[i],"^","")

endfor

for i=1, i<size(form_array), i=i+1

do

if(form_array[i][2]==form_name)then

BREAK

endif

endfor

return str(i)

}

}

to get the position of the form I'm currently looking at....

Then, I used ADD_FORM_COMP() and, instead of "AFTER_CURRENT", I used i+1 as the ordinal number to insert. This works how I want it to, but still seems like an unnecessary amount of work to me.

Thanks for sharing the code you wrote up for it. I'm having the same problem, and I was going to build exactly what you did. It would be nice if the AFTER_CURRENT worked as it is intended, though.

Thanks again!

Posted : February 20, 2013 7:41 am

Anonymous

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No problem. I realized later that for FOR loops, i needed to use i<=size() instead of i<size(). MEL doesn't treat the first element of an array as the 0th element.

Like:

for i=1, i<=size(form_array), i=i+1

Instead of:

for i=1, i<size(form_array), i=i+1

Either way, it works pretty well. It just may not find your form if it's the very last one in the list if you use

for i=1, i<size(form_array), i=i+1

Posted : March 6, 2013 1:03 am

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