Use of GVM's in POSTTRANS DAL

Hi everyone,
We are having an issue getting GVM's to be accessible to the POSTTRANS.dal script. HAVEGVM is showing the GVM exists, but the values come in blank.
Is an .ini setting that controls this? Does the ordering of the POSTTRANS dal in the AFGJOB matter here?
If the ordering does matter, is there a good way to troubleshoot?
Any help or suggestions regarding this issue are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Eric Greene

Okay. That probably means that the script did not provide enough information to clarify where to find your field in the document. DAL has the concept of the "current section" and "current field". So, when you call it from a field rule, it would assume that is the current field and the section that owns the field is the current section. When you call it in a Post trans DAL, the system will assign the first section in the document as the "current" section. So, your field is being sought on that section and is failing.
So, you need to provide enough information to locate the field. The @() supports you specifying the section, form, and forms list. The amount you have to specify depends upon what best identifies the specific field you want.
If you know your field is uniquely named in the entire document, you could do something like this:
x = @("FieldName", , , "*");
This says to find the first (and only?) occurrence of the named field within any form list (GRP) specified. That's pretty broad, but you may be able to be more specific.
x = @("FieldName", "Section", "Form", "FormList");
If you specify an asterisk, this means "ANY" within the parent. so x = @("FieldName", , "*") means to find the field within "any" form within the current forms list.
x = @("FieldName", "*") would mean to find the field on any section within the current form (which in this case would be the first form in the transaction).
There may be better examples in the DAL help for the getfld (@) function, so perhaps reviewing that would be better than what I've done here.

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[email protected]
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[email protected]
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David
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