1 Reply by Darwyn Sumner (LERC)

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Re: Getting a response from a selected item

How do I get a response from the item that is currently selected in Recorder 6, for use in an XML report.

This is what I am trying to do:
1. Select a parish Location
2. Run an XML report that will list all the Local Wildlife Sites in that parish
This is a fairly simple XML report structure that just uses the tables Location (twice), Location_name, Site_status & Location_designation.

At the moment the only way that I can obtain the value of the item I have selected (the parish Location) is to use the "Show metadata" (i) button, copy the unique record identifier (making sure not to include the full stop - who put that there?) and paste this into the parameter box when I run my XML report.

But I should be able to add this XML to my Quick Report list and have it run using the selected Location's parameters without all that messing about.

Any ideas?

2 Reply by charlesroper

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Re: Getting a response from a selected item

Just to clarify, do you mean you'd like to be able to right-click on a location in the location hierarchy and run the XML report from the right-click menu?

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3 Reply by Darwyn Sumner (LERC)

  • Darwyn Sumner (LERC)
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Re: Getting a response from a selected item

That's it, Charles.
This probably has many applications, for example I'm just looking at a similar one for Individuals & Organisations. To be able to select a landowner and pull up a list of Locations which they own and then use this to send him a letter.