Being fairly new to AR Development, I am curious as to if & how you
would set up a text box to display a dynamic message? I would like to
display something like "Welcome $USER$" on a form, but I just get the
literal $USER$ instead of the value of $USER$. A read only charater
field with the label "Welcome" and a default value of $USER$ looks kind
of kludgy. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Thad

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Thad,

Create a character field, you decide the size.

Create an Active Link that does a Set Field action

Execute on Display (or your choice)

Select the Form that has the text field you want to display

Set Field Action

Form User

Set the field
'zText'
"Welcome " + $USER$

Set permissions and save it.

Open the form and the field will display Welcome Thad


You can also use the User's Full Name field or any field from the
User form for that matter.

Hope this helps.


Regards...Gidd


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[mailto:ARSLIST@LISTSERV.VISTAIT.COM]On Behalf Of Thad Esser
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 2:47 PM
To: ARSLIST@LISTSERV.VISTAIT.COM
Subject: Dynamic Text Boxes..?


Hello,

Being fairly new to AR Development, I am curious as to if & how you
would set up a text box to display a dynamic message? I would like to
display something like "Welcome $USER$" on a form, but I just get the
literal $USER$ instead of the value of $USER$. A read only charater
field with the label "Welcome" and a default value of $USER$ looks kind
of kludgy. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Thad

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