Issue

How to dynamically name and select an Answer-set.

Solution:

Your requirement is something that we do often. We would suggest that the best way of approaching this is to move the script for pre-populating your Dialog into the template before creating or loading the Answer-set, in which case it would go something like this:

1. Determine the required answer-set name:

%[AnswerSetName=MyDatabase.Field]

2. Check to see if the Answer-set exists. Only if it does not exist, create a new Answer-set, preset the values from the database, and save:

%[DeleteBlockIf(Dialogs.Exists("\ApplicationMapping\DialogName","AnswerSetName")]

%[X=Dialogs.New("\ApplicationMapping\DialogName","AnswerSetName")]

%[X.Field1=MyDatabase.Field1]

%[X.Field2=MyDatabase.Field2]

etc.

%[Dialogs.Save(X,True)]

%[EndBlock()]

3. Now simply load the Answer-set (either newly created and populated, or existing) for further editing:

%[Dialogs.Capture("\ApplicationMapping\DialogName","AnswerSetName", True)]

Daniel Todes