Method:Classic General Q&A

Re: Nested Conditional Statements in Actions?

CarolOliver — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:29:31 GMT

I eagerly look forward to it.

BTW, I am a HUGE Method fan already and I've only been working with it since early April. Love it, Love it!!!!

Can you recommend a good book on VB that will ramp me up on the scripting?

Thanks.

Carol

Re: Nested Conditional Statements in Actions?

Method_Paul — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:34:12 GMT

Ahh - gotcha. Okay.....I know what you want. I also know what we are working on.....and you've going to have to hold tight for a while unfortuantely. But something is coming later this year that will blow off the roof in this regard and much more....

Paul

Re: Nested Conditional Statements in Actions?

CarolOliver — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:29:44 GMT

Paul,

I tried that but it isn't enough information. I want it ALL! Isn't that just like an CPA? "Show us ALL your stuff..."

Carol

Re: Nested Conditional Statements in Actions?

Method_Paul — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:10:21 GMT

Carol - right click on the designer screen and choose Show Summary.

Happy friday.

Paul

Re: Nested Conditional Statements in Actions?

CarolOliver — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:51:09 GMT

Garrett,

Great question! I'm looking forward to the answer.

I learned a lot from examining the Actions on the "Save" button in CRM New Opportunities screen. But it didn't have anything like your multiple conditions...

I wish there was some way to print a report showing all the Actions on a button (and setup detail for them.) I've resorted to screen prints, modifying in Paint and copying to Word to create documentation of something I've done but it is hardly a satisfactory solution. Also, ALT-PRTSC does not grab just the active window in Method like it usually does in other products; it grabs the entire screen - hence the necessity for the clean-up task in Paint.

Carol

Re: Nested Conditional Statements in Actions?

bcr_garrett — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:26:38 GMT

What if you have more than one condition, and no conditional operators in Method...

An issue I had recently
if condition1...do something1.
if condition1 and condition2...do something2.
if condition1 and condition3...do something3.
if condition1 and condition2 and condition3...do something4.

So I nested the If statements, and played around until I got the behaviors I needed.
Is there a better solution for a case like this - for multiple conditions?
I hope I have explained clearly enough.
Thanks,
Garrett

Re: Nested Conditional Statements in Actions?

CarolOliver — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:17:33 GMT

Thank you!

Carol

Re: Nested Conditional Statements in Actions?

Method_Paul — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:07:02 GMT

It's super easy. But no If...Then..Elseif....Else.....it's just If...Then.

Conditional Start: If Month equals April then

Conditional Start: If Today equals Monday Then

Show Message "Sorry, to hear you're having a bad day"

Conditional End

Conditional Start: If Today is not equal to Monday Then

Show Message "Hope you're having a great day. At least it isn't Monday.!"

Conditional End

Nested Conditional Statements in Actions?

CarolOliver — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:53:59 GMT

Greetings.

I need to create an Action to occur based on the value selected in a dropdown field. If the selection is "Closed", then I need the Action to do one thing and if the selection is "Won", I need it to do something else.

Bottom line: How can I nest Conditional Statements together? (Like an "if, then, else" statement).

Is there an example in Method CRM to which I can refer?

Many thanks,

Carol