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Bringing Params into Scripts for Addons

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#1

Specifically for the adjustmentTrans screen. I have made a screen for our yearly inventory for users to enter the inventory counts and for reviewers to cure them, but the last step to adjust existing inventory seems to be the biggest issue.

I have gotten the adjustmentTrans screen to load with the supplied parameters - including the itemsiteid and the absolute value of the new QOH - but I can’t seem to auto populate the _notes and _documentNum fields. I had hoped to just pass over new parameters but I cant figure out a way to bring over the parameters passed to the core to the script. And it also seems that the script is loading ahead of the screen in any regard. Is there a way to do this?

#2

It might help if you shared your code? I’ll take a quick stab at helping out. Here is an example from timeExpenseSheetItem. The set function is allowing us to handle the incoming parameters that are in input.

set = function(input)
{
  if("emp_id" in input)
    _employee.setId(input.emp_id);

  if("weekending" in input)
    _weekending.date = input.weekending;

  if ("tehead_id" in input)
    _headid = input.tehead_id;

  if ("site" in input)
    _site = input.site;

  if ("teitem_id" in input)
    _teitemid = input.teitem_id;

  if ("mode" in input)
  {
    _mode = input.mode;

      if (input.mode == xtte.newMode)
      {
          xtte.timeExpenseSheetItem.clear();
      }
      else if (input.mode == xtte.viewMode)
      {
        var shortcut = _buttonBox.button(QDialogButtonBox.Cancel).shortcut;
        _buttonBox.removeButton(_buttonBox.button(QDialogButtonBox.Cancel));
        _buttonBox.removeButton(_buttonBox.button(QDialogButtonBox.Save));
        _buttonBox.addButton(QDialogButtonBox.Close);
        _buttonBox.button(QDialogButtonBox.Close).shortcut = shortcut;
        _weekending.enabled = false;
        _next.enabled = false;
        _prepaid.enabled = false;
        _type.enabled = false;
        _weekending.enabled = false;
        _workdate.enabled = false;
        _hours.enabled = false;
        _rate.enabled = false;
        _items.enabled = false;
        _employee.enabled = false;
        _clients.enabled = false;
        _po.enabled = false;
        _project.enabled = false;
        _task.enabled = false;
        _notes.readOnly = true;
        _billable.enabled = false;
        _empcost.enabled = false;
      }
      else if (input.mode == xtte.editMode)
      {
        _project.enabled = false;
        _task.enabled = false;
      }

      xtte.timeExpenseSheetItem.populate();
   }


  return mainwindow.NoError;
}
#3

that was pretty helpful - thanks.