Formatted Search - Using field index to refer to UDF in many documents

Question

I have some UDFs in my marketing documents - say U_VALUE
I want to write a fairly complicated formatted search and use it for the same thing across all my marketing documents.
I don't want to use
$[ORDR.U_VALUE]
in my formatted search as this will only work in the sales order document.
I want to use something like
$[$4.0.0]
which brings back the cardcode independant of the form we are looking at. However
$[$U_VALUE.0.0]
will not work!
Hoping someone can help!
Edited by: Daniel Abbatt on Apr 10, 2008 6:16 PM

Answer 1

Yes you would have to have a UDF called VALUE on the marketing document for this example to run and even then it will error!
That's the point, the code above will not work, SBO only seems to be able to know about ORDR in a sales order and OINV in an invoice. So if I am in a sales order, it errors on the reference to OINV, even though the code that uses the
$[OINV.U_VALUE]
is never actually accessed by the SQL. I guess this is because SBO does the substitutions before it executes the code.
All I am basically trying to do is create a generic formatted search that will perform an action using the value of a UDF, say some formatting, the problem is I want it to work with any marketing document.
The only way I can find to access a UDF though is by having to use the
$[TABLE.U_FIELDNAME]
way, which seems to mean by definition I can only create a formatted search to access a header UDF for a single type of document. I cannot create a generic formatted search, that reverses the string for example, and use that formatted search across all marketing documents.
I know you can access normal fields also by their item reference, i.e.
$[$4.0.0]
, but this syntax does not seem to work with UDF, even though the system information shows the item reference as U_VALUE, I cannot use the
$[$U_VALUE.0.0]
which would be ideal...
Edited by: Daniel Abbatt on Apr 14, 2008 12:05 PM