RE: Automating Genero Data Entry

Thank you for the reference.  
I can now figure out how to open an excel file based on the 4js link you provided, but I do not see a similar example for how to open a DDE with Genero or how to actually pass data between the two.
Thanks !

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Olivier ECKERT
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [fourjs-users] Automating Genero Data Entry

Hello John,

In orderd to open an Excel/Word file,
can you read this docuemntation please :


http://www1.4js.com/html/supp/documentation/olgenerodoc/fjs-fgl-1.31.1k-manual-html/index.html

It deals with the DDE connections.

Thank you,


Olivier ECKERT - Four J's Development Tools Support


John Borders a écrit :
> Our new third-party transactional data base system uses a unix-hosted 
> Informix engine with a Genero PC-based front-end.
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> We have large amounts of data -- typically compiled/assembled in Excel 
> spreadhseets -- that needs to be entered.  It is extremely time 
> consuming, error prone, and inefficient to enter this data into the 
> Genero screens by hand on the PCs.
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> Is there some macro or script or program I can use to open a data file 
> (e.g. excel, text), read the data I need to upload, and enter it into 
> the Genero screen directly as if I were typing it in.  Essentially, I 
> need to automate the 'fat finger' process of entering data into the 
> Genero screen.
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> I need to 'go through' the Genero screens because I do not have direct 
> assess to the database tables themselves.
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> Thank you
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> John Borders
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