Is it possible to call a script in a Display Format field? I want to make my Clock-in screen show the time a staff clocked-in at.
So far, it just shows the name of the Entity, which is denoted by the $1 before the linebreak.
Pretty sure script works but not sure about your @@
It’s a SQL script, so wouldn’t I need the @@?
Don’t know, I’ve always used full scripts myself.
The @@ is for calling sql scripts in reports.
I dont think it will work in that field. I am pretty sure that field will not support evaluating tags like that.
Try this though {CALL:@@clockintime} instead of {CALL:@@clockintime,$1)
What was the ,$1 for? That is not valid syntax
Maybe try REPORT SQL DETAILS tag instead of using a call like that.
I believe the $1 argument can be passed into the script as a variable, so I don’t have to create 20 scripts, one for each Employee Entity.
No that is not how you pass a variable into a CALL.
If you need a variable you should use a propper {CALL:handler.function(‘variable’)} syntax and use a function to call the sql script.
I am still not sure it will work though.
So, I should write a JScript script, with a function that does SQL calls?
Yes try that… Here is an example of a sql query as a variable in a function.
function processFailedPosts()
{
var tid=0;
var oid=0;
var lqry = "SELECT [Value] FROM [ProgramSettingValues] WHERE [Name]='PD_Failed_Postings'";
var failedPosts = sql.Query(lqry).First;
if (failedPosts=='')
{
return 0;
}
failedPosts = failedPosts.split(',');
var failedPostsCount = failedPosts.length;
//return failedPostsCount;
var datafields = getDataFields();
var datafieldscount = datafields.length;
for (var f=0; f<failedPostsCount; f++)
{
var pair = failedPosts[f].split('~');
tid = pair[0];
oid = pair[1];
var qry = "";
qry += "SELECT";
for (var d=0; d < datafieldscount; d++)
{
qry += (d>0 ? " ," : " ");
qry += "[" + datafields[d] + "]";
}
qry += " FROM [Orders]";
qry += " WHERE 1=1";
qry += " AND [TicketId] = " + tid;
qry += " AND [Id] = " + oid;
//qry += " AND [OrderNumber] = " + onm;
//qry += " AND [OrderUid] = '" + ouid + "'";
//qry += " ORDER BY [Id]";
var qryresult = sql.Query(qry).Delimit('~').First;
var qrydata = qryresult.split('~');
var qryfieldcount = qrydata.length;
var data = new Object();
for (var d=0; d < datafieldscount; d++)
{
data[datafields[d]] = qrydata[d];
}
var jsondata = JSON.stringify(data);
//return jsondata;
// Post missed Data to server
var res = web.PostJson(url,jsondata,usr,pwd);
if (res == "SUCCESS")
{
// remove missed Post data from DB
var rval = tid+"~"+oid+",";
var uqry = "UPDATE [ProgramSettingValues] SET [Value]=(REPLACE([Value],'"+rval+"','')) WHERE [Name]='PD_Failed_Postings'";
sql.ExecSql(uqry);
var rval = tid+"~"+oid;
uqry = "UPDATE [ProgramSettingValues] SET [Value]=(REPLACE([Value],'"+rval+"','')) WHERE [Name]='PD_Failed_Postings'";
sql.ExecSql(uqry);
}
}
return 0;
}
How would I call that? Like this?:
{CALL:handler.processFailedPosts($1)}
You could try {CALL:handler.function(’$1’)}
So if your handler is John and function is stacy() it would be {CALL:John.stacy(’$1’)}
So yours would be {CALL:clockinTimeNew.clockIn(’$1’)}
In the variable you need to do "+name+"
