[ic] Not able to retrieve fields from custom table
Stefan Hornburg
racke at linuxia.de
Wed May 12 17:23:11 EDT 2004
On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:21:50 -0600
"Tim Good" <tim.g at edsd.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org
> > [mailto:interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org] On Behalf
> > Of John Rennie
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:06 PM
> > To: interchange-users at icdevgroup.org
> > Subject: RE: [ic] Not able to retrieve fields from custom table
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org
> > > [mailto:interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org] On Behalf
> > > Of Tim Good
> > > Sent: 12 May 2004 18:35
> > > To: interchange-users at icdevgroup.org
> > > Subject: [ic] Not able to retrieve fields from custom table
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > First sorry for the double post previously, I was not sure
> > > which email address was setup. I did not get a response to
> > > my first post so I am reposting with a more specific
> > > question.
> > >
> > > Why would this code not work?
> > >
> > > [perl table='delivery_schedule']
> > > $Tag->data("delivery_schedule", "charge", "[loop-data
> > > transactions order_number]"); [/perl]
> > >
> > > (mysql 3.23.58 on Redhat 8.0 non threaded perl 5.8.2 interchange 5.2
> > > stable)
> > >
> > > All help is much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Tim
> >
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > You don't say exactly what 'not work' means, so this is a guess...
> >
> > >From the interchange rtfm tags reference, perl tags are not
> > >interpolated
> > by default. So
> > [perl table='delivery_schedule' interpolate=1]
> > $Tag->data("delivery_schedule", "charge", "[loop-data
> > transactions order_number]"); [/perl]
> > should work better.
> >
> > You might also want to switch to single quotes within your
> > perl, to avoid the risk of any interpolation (e.g. \n or $)
> > of your data (unlikely with an order number, but you may have
> > an odd format).
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > John.
> >
>
> John,
>
> Thank you for the response and thanks for the advice on using single
> quotes.
> What does not work is that it returns nothing.
> If I don't use the interpolate=1 and change the tag to:
> [perl table='delivery_schedule' interpolate=1]
> $Tag->data("transactions", "order_number", "[loop-data transactions
> order_number]");
> [/perl]
> I get something returned. To clarify, I use
> "transactions","order_number" just to test
> the results and use of the tag. The interpolate is not necessary, at
> least in the test
> above. I think, according to my research/reading of documentation,
> it does not work because of something to do with delivery_schedule table
> being a
> custom table and the data tag wants to work with product tables or
> transaction tables?
> Just a stab at what I can see so far.
>
> Any ideas?
Check if the table appears in the UI.
Check your SQL log for the query issued by Interchange.
Bye
Racke
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