Macros and Programming

I wish to use the contents of fields EE01 to EE20 of database "A" to look up records in a separate database "B" (fields name SYMBOL)(or use Key/Item DIM objDictionary)and extract the contents of (field name ATWeight) from "B" (or the Item from objDictionary)then place the results into Field A01 to A20 of "A" respectively.
It is the process of 'extracting and converting' the data in fields "A"-EE to a search entry into "B"-Symbol and then taking the data from the selected record "B"-ATWeight and placing it into "A"-A01. (Then to iterate 20 times which I can work out for myself.)I have tried using various examples in the Cardbox book but cannot get them to work for me.
Has anyone the patience to explain this in words of one syllable? I have never had any formal lessons in any kind of programming / macro writing but have written several less demanding ones by trial and many errors.

Hi,
I think I can help you the best by a simple example. You can also write beautiful interesting macros for this. But I think the best is to start writing macros as easy as possible.

I hope I understand your 'process' well.
I understood:
- Content of current record of DB A, content of fields EE01-EE20, are used to select a record in DB B in field SYMBOL01-symbol20.
- In DB B, the selected record (it is always one...?!), you want to pick up fields ATWeight01 - ATWeight20 and place the content of it into DB A, in the record where you started, fields A01-A20.

This is a way:

First: both db's are opened.
DB A is our starting point.
First read content in a variable of current record of db a, field EE01-EE20:
-ee01 = Fields("EE01")
-ee02 = Fields("EE02")
-and so on.
Then Activate database B.
Activate "B"

We always start (of course) at level 0 in DB B. So:
SelectionLevel = 0

Then the selection process. I suppose there were no empty Fields in db A.:
ActiveWindow.Select Fields("SYMBOL01"),ee01
ActiveWindow.Select Fields("SYMBOL02"),ee02
and so on.

Cardbox will raise an error message when there are on a certain level no records left to select (There is then something wrong with you data in db B I think).
There will also an error if on of the ee## fields is empty.
If both can occur, there are extra statements needed to avoid these error messages.

The result will be 1 record (I hope). However, to be sure there is one record selected: we check first and let Cardbox pause the macro when there is more then 1 record left in your selection in db B. You can decide what to do then.
If Records.Count > 1 then Pause "There are " & Records.Count & " records selected. Something wrong?",300,300.

The pick up the data in B:
ATW01 = Fields("ATWeight01")
ATW02 = Fields("ATWeight02")
ATW03 = Fields("ATWeight03")

Then go back to db A:
Activate "A"
Place the found data into the record:
EditRecord
Fields("A01") = ATW01
Fields("A02") = ATW02
Fields("A03") = ATW03
SaveRecord

Something like this can do it. It can be done much more sophisticated. However, that is not the way I think I can help you the best now.

I hope this will help you.
Regards
Bert

Helo Bert,

Many thanks for your patience in outlining a suitable solution to my long and rambling question.
I will 'convert' this into Carbox speak within the next day or two.
Once again
Many Thanks
Chris

please email me and I am willing to pay you to write a short macro for me.
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