Method:Classic General Q&A

Re: Do While in Screen Actions

Matt — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:24:55 GMT

Hi Pam,

You should be able to accomplish this by creating an action result called "keepProcessing" and set its value to true before the loop. Then put everything inside of the loop in a conditional statement if keepProcessing = True. When you get to the case where you want to stop set the value of keepProcessing to False. It would look like this:

set AR keepProcessing = True

Loop Number Table

If next is blank

set keepProcessing = False

End If

If keepProcessing = True

do what you want here

End If

End Loop

Hope that helps!

Re: Do While in Screen Actions

kefpa01 — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 21:12:34 GMT

Thanks for the note Mortaza.

I am parsing a field of data using Seek Next in Selection List. I don't know how many items are in the list. When I get to the point where the Seek result is blank, I want to stop that section of the screen actions.

Re: Do While in Screen Actions

Method_Morty — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 20:20:42 GMT

Hey Pam,

I can see how that can be tough to accomplish using If/Else condition statements along side Stop Processing More Actions.

I have put in a feature request to have a do while/do until/for loop added as an option to screen logic. I’ll keep you posted in what I hear back from our development team.

Also if you want to post what you are trying to accomplish, I can try to put together a workaround solution for you.

-- Mortaza

Do While in Screen Actions

kefpa01 — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 19:53:09 GMT

I would like to be able to process screen actions in a "Do While" fashion where I don't know how many iterations will be needed. Because Method does not have DO While or Do Until capability, I've set up a loop through a dummy table with a Counter column and specify "Start loop through table, where Counter is less than Type In 99". I would like to be able to stop looping when I reach some condition and not keep looping for 99 iterations. I can't use Stop Processing More Actions, because I DO need to be able to process actions after the End Loop Through Table command.

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions or tips...

Thanks,

Pam