Opening User defined Fields Form via API

Hi
Is there a posiibility to open those user defined field - forms via API. If yes is it possible to check if it is already open?
TIA
Phile

Hi,
In your eventhandler, you can use this:
Set oSboForm = Sbo_application.Forms.GetFormByTypeAndCount(-pval.FormType, pval.FormTypeCount)
form and udf-form are linked through a minus sign.
I do not know of a nice way to check if they are anebled. What I'm currently doing is running the above line of code contained in an error handler. The error handler does a sendkeys of control shift u (which enables the udf-form) and displays a message. Problem is after control shift u, screen is not yet updated so your code cannot continue immediatelly. Development knows of this problem, but I never received a promise when this will be fixed.
Hope this helps,
Jacques

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Hi Philipp,
This is in reference to ur post Dated Jan13,2005. "Opening User Defined Fields Form via API".
Is it possible for u to give a code snippet. what i'm unable to get is
- Check if i can get a handle of the UDF-Form in the Mainform Activate-Event
and
-disable the close button
Thanx in anticipation.
Manu.

Hi Manu,
Here is a code snipet where looks for the related UDF form. The FormTypeNum´s value is the same as pVal.FormType property.
Dim oUDFForm As SAPbouiCOM.Form
Try
oUDFForm = con.Forms.GetForm("-" + FormTypeNum.ToString.Trim, con.Forms.Item(FormUID).TypeCount)
Catch ex As Exception
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End Try
The other issue is solved in your other post.
Regards,
Ibai Peñ

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When I try to add a linked user defined field using DI API I get the error number -5002 with description:
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I Get the error when I use the Add method.
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Hi Jeffrey,
Your code above does not match the settings you are using in the UI. In particular, the type and subtype you are setting in code are not correct.
To create the UDF via code, set the field types as follows:
SAPbobsCOM.IUserFieldsMD uf = (SAPbobsCOM.IUserFieldsMD)company.GetBusinessObject(SAPbobsCOM.BoObjectTypes.oUserFields);
uf.Name = "S_BUCO";
uf.TableName = "OPOR";
uf.Type = SAPbobsCOM.BoFieldTypes.db_Alpha;
uf.EditSize = 8;
uf.LinkedTable = "S_BU";
uf.Description = "Description";
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There's no need to set the SubType property as you require a regular alphanumeric field.
Kind Regards,
Owen

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I need to prevent the closure of a user defined fields form while the parent form is opened. I can trap the et_FORM_UNLOAD before event but seems is too late to prevent the closure. Have anyone some idea about it?
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Hi Martella,
You need to do two things to achieve this.
1. Make sure that when parent form is opened, the user defined field form is always opened at that same time.
you can do that as follows
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If pVal.FormTypeEx = [User defined form type] And pVal.EventType = et_FORM_LOAD And pVal.Before_Action = False Then
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Can't remove a user defined field with DI API.

Hi,
I'm using the code below to remove a user field. However, the first time I run it, I get the message that:
"Ref count for this object is higher then 0"
The second time I run it, I get the message that:
"No matching records found (ODBC -2028)"
As you can see, I am killing the UserFieldsMD object. In fact, when the function is entered, the object is nothing but later instantiated with oCompany.
The result in both cases is that the field doesn't get removed. What am I missing? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mike
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        Dim Err As Integer
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        Try
            If Not FieldExists(TableName, FieldName) Then
                Result = True
            Else
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                    .TableName = TableName
                    .Name = FieldName
                    Err = .Remove
                    If Err Then
                        oUtilCompany.GetLastError(Err, ErrMsg)
                        If ErrMsg = "No matching records found (ODBC -2028)" Then
                            Result = True
                        Else
                            ErrMsg = "Was not able to remove field " & FieldName & " from table " & TableName & " programmatically." & vbCrLf & _
                                     "Please remove it manually using the Tools menu."
                        End If
                    Else
                        Result = True
                    End If
                End With
            End If
        Catch ex As Exception
            Throw ex
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        If Not Obj Is Nothing Then ObjectRelease(Obj)
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        'This routine releases objects that were acquired with oCompany.GetBusinessObject().
        System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(Obj)
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Hi Mike,
The issue with your code is that you are not calling the GetByKey method of the field object. Until you do this the FieldID property is 0 so when the Remove method is called it will not try and remove the correct UDF (if you run SQL profiler then you'll see that SBO is looking for the UDF based on the table and fieldID values).
Something like the following works for me:
private void DeleteUDF(string sTableID, string sFieldName)
    SAPbobsCOM.UserFieldsMD sboField = (SAPbobsCOM.UserFieldsMD)_sboCompany.GetBusinessObject(BoObjectTypes.oUserFields);
    try
        int iFieldID = GetFieldID(sTableID, sFieldName);
        if(sboField.GetByKey(sTableID, iFieldID))
            if (sboField.Remove() != 0)_sboApp.SetStatusBarMessage("Error removing UDF: " + _sboCompany.GetLastErrorDescription(), SAPbouiCOM.BoMessageTime.bmt_Short, true);
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        System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(sboField);
        sboField = null;
        GC.Collect();
private int GetFieldID(string sTableID, string sAliasID)
    int iRetVal = 0;
    SAPbobsCOM.Recordset sboRec = (SAPbobsCOM.Recordset)_sboCompany.GetBusinessObject(BoObjectTypes.BoRecordset);
    try
        sboRec.DoQuery("select FieldID from CUFD where TableID = '" + sTableID + "' and AliasID = '" + sAliasID + "'");
        if (!sboRec.EoF) iRetVal = Convert.ToInt32(sboRec.Fields.Item("FieldID").Value.ToString());
    finally
        System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(sboRec);
        sboRec = null;
        GC.Collect();
    return iRetVal;
Note that the parameter sAliasID is the field name without the U_ prefix.
Kind Regards,
Owen

How to remove User Defined field in programitically

Hi,
How to remove user defined field in programitically. send the code
Thanks,
P.Suresh Kumar

Hi,
Please take a look at this thread:
Re: Can't remove a user defined field with DI API.
Kind Regards,
Owen

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If you haven´t put the field directly in the standard form the user defined fields are in a different form. This form has the same type but with "-" before it.
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Hello,
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Thank you

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I want to read user defined fields using the DI-API.
The following code works but lists only UDFs defined for articles:
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Hi Vítor,
thank you for the hint to UserFieldsMD - now the access works.
You wanted to know what I am trying to do - let me explain the background even it is a bit complicated:
I have to access a certain UDF defined for articles.
To access this UDF I can't use a fixed index like e.g. '5' in
item.UserFields.Fields.Item(5).Value
because this index is 5 only on my local machine - it could be a different index on the target machine.
I solved this in writing some sql-code to access table CUFD and to find the index of this UDF in CUFD.FieldID.
But sometimes there is a problem when there are UDFs deleted from the database. It is possible that there are 'holes' between the FieldId of UDFs of one object, e.g.
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OITM 0 'myUDF1'   ==> item.UserFields.Fields.Item(0).Value
OITM 1 'myUDF2'   ==> item.UserFields.Fields.Item(1).Value
OITM 2 'myUDF3'   ==> item.UserFields.Fields.Item(2).Value
After deletion of 'myUDF2':
OITM 0 'myUDF1'
OITM 2 'myUDF3'
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After I realized this I didn't use the sql-code to get FieldID any longer and searched with a loop all existing indices and compared them with the name of my special UDF, e.g. (this code works as expected):
public int getUDFIndex(string udfName){
index = -1;
for(int i=0; i<item.UserFields.Fields.Count; i++{
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      break;
return index;
Now I tried to make this method more general to find UDFs in any object - not only in item objects.
This is the background I wanted to access SAPbobsCOM.UserFields for.
The problem is that UserFieldsMD has no method like Item(index) as I used it in my example.
Do you have an idea to solve the problem with the 'holes' between FieldId in the UFD-table CUFD?
Frank Romeni

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