Issue

Is there a way to iterate the fields in a GhostFill Dialog without knowing in advance the names of the fields? I'm trying to figure out a way to write a generic script that performs the same operations on the fields in a Dialog (handling unanswered variables, for example) without having to write a new script for each Dialog that contains hard coded references to the field names.

Solution:

Yes, you can iterate through all fields on a Dialog form, and get amongst other things their:

• name

• value

• answered status

The following script illustrates how to do this. When reviewing this script, two things to bear in mind:

• The field index count starts at zero.

• There will be some 'system' fields (e.g., "_version" and "_mapping"), but these can be easily stripped out as their first character will always be an underscore.

Here is the sample script:

%[i=0]

%[RepeatBlockWhile(i<thisDialog.dynamicpropertycount)]

%[DeleteBlockIf(  Left(thisDialog.dynamicpropertyname(i),1)  ="_") |This removes system fields]

%[MsgBox( "Field Name:", thisDialog.dynamicpropertyname(i) )]

%[MsgBox( "Field Value:", thisDialog.dynamicpropertyvalue(i) )]

%[MsgBox( "Answered:",thisDialog.form.fields.getv(thisDialog.dynamicpropertyname(i)).answered)]

%[EndBlock()]

%[i=i+1]

%[Endblock()]

Daniel Todes