checkbox help

[eyvaldivia]

Hello all... another question that I can't figure out. In my d-base we print labels, postcards, letter1, letter2, letter, and we also send email. I created a field called "status" field formatted at checkbox. What I'm looking for is anytime we do one of the letters to check the appropriate box weather is a letter, postcard or an email. Can anyone help please.

Thanks

-Raul

[ernst]

Hi Raul,

You could script the printing and have a statusfield that is updated by the printscripts, for example with a print script like this:

Print

Set Field [statusfield, StatusCurrent(LayoutName))

Your layouts need to be named according to their function, i.e. labels, postcards, letter1, letter2, letter and email

Statusfield could then display as checkboxes with a valuelist that gets it's values from the fieldvalues of Statusfield.

Hope this helps,

Ernst.

[eyvaldivia]

ernst, I've tried this and still can't get it to work. The value list for status field are postcard, letter1, letter2, letter2, email, labels. Now if I print labels, that checkbox is checked... but when I print letter1 it unchecks labels and checks letter1. How can I set it up to where it updates the field so that anything that is printed is check so I know what's been done with that specific record.

-Raul

[-Queue-]

Set Field[ Statusfield, LeftWords( Statusfield & "

[eyvaldivia]

-Queue- Thank you for your help that did the trick.