How to format currency in a scripted popover object

[FileDumb]

Hi people, I am at a total loss here so any help appreciated! New to using popovers hence my question: a button/script that sits 'within' a popover panel then accesses a named object which allows creation of a service/product with a price on it. Problem: the price is in $ and I want £ ... BUT I can't then get that object up in layout mode to format currency as it disappears when I access layout mode!

I seem to be able to access the initial popover ok and have changed currency on that one but this has really got me! Heeeelp!

Many thanks in advance. Cheers

[comment]

Currency formatting is applied to individual fields - not to the layout objects that contain them.

[FileDumb]

Hi,

Sorry I meant to say: the individual fields are sitting on the popover and the popover is activated by a button/script that's set to 'go to object'.

When I created a button just to go to that object and then enter layout mode the object (and fields I wish to format currency for) disappear!

 

 

[comment]

I am not sure I understand the problem. To open a popover in Layout mode, you need to double-click the popover button (or select the popover button and choose Display Popover from the Format menu). That is the actual popover button created with the popover; your additional button that performs a script is useless here.

 

[FileDumb]

Thanks for your reply: what I have is in the 'starter solution' > invoices
It's where you add an invoice item to an invoice and can then add a new service from that pop up: the additional pop up is not a 'pop up' button but a button attached to a script which opens up an object that has the fields I want to format. It says 'popover' in the script but I cannot get to that layout - it doesn't exist as a layout as such.

[comment]

4 minutes ago, FileDumb said:

the additional pop up is not a 'pop up' button but a button attached to a script which opens up an object that has the fields I want to format

And what exactly is this "object that has the fields I want to format"?

[FileDumb]

It's called "New Product Panel"
It looks like when the first popover is open that when this script is activated it 'slides across' to this object.
The script I refer to is one labelled 'Popover | New Product'
Script steps are:
• Set Field [GetNextSerialValue (Get (FileName) ; GetFieldName (All products | Popover::SERVICE ID MATCH FIELD))
• Set Script Animation [On]
• Set Field [New Product | Popover::Category; "Product"]
• Commit Records/Requests [no dialog]
• Go To Field [select/perform; New Product | Popover::Item]

That's it - it's a short script but I can't fathom how it's getting to the layout/object I want to edit the fields on for currency formatting purposes... [emoji53]

[FileDumb]

Got it! I double clicked on the first popover window (not the popover button but the window itself once opened) and accessed the 'slide control'. I had not, hitherto, seen this. There I could select 'slide 2' and access the 'New Product' panel and format the currency.
Thank you all for assisting as best you could: I hope this might help someone else like me, unfamiliar with all the 'popover' bits & bobs. It looks like a very useful tool too.
Cheers

[comment]

12 minutes ago, FileDumb said:

I hope this might help someone else like me, unfamiliar with all the 'popover' bits & bobs

This has nothing to do with "the 'popover' bits & bobs". Apparently, you have a slide control object inside your popover panel, with its navigation dots hidden. 

17 minutes ago, FileDumb said:

I double clicked on the first popover window (not the popover button but the window itself once opened)

No, you double-clicked the slide control object, thus opening the Slide Control Setup window. The fact that all this happens inside a popover panel is immaterial. 

[Lee Smith]

Hi FileDumb and welcome to the FM Forums,

I sent you a Private Message a couple of hours ago, please read it now.

Lee