Visual LANSA Forum

Dino,
I created a standard file maintenance using LANSA. I told it what file I wanted to use. It did the rest, including a nice paperclip icon (for attachments), and then 1 for notes. It works great. The user can manually add attachments, and they are stored as BLOBS, as best I Know.
So now, I have ...

Thanks Dino. I suspect I am not clear on my question. And shall post in the questions section in the future (I don't know what I was thinking)....

Is there a technique I can use to get LANSA generated spreadsheets to a Network drive instead of my IFS?

Is there a way to incorporate a PDF that's on my IFS into a Blob in LANSA?
I use LANSA to create my database (let's say an invoice file). It allows me the paper clip icon to attach documents using the UI. Well now I have an IBMi job that creates a PDF on my IFS, that I'd like to make available in ...

Anyone ever develop APIs for Shopify Fulfillment? I do not want or need to create an APP. I'm just looking for what APIs and in what order I need to use them to ship an order. We use Shopify for order entry, but ship in our ERP. I am just learning REST APIs in LANSA (the tutorial is only minimally ...

And I am on V15 EPC 150020.

Thanks !! I am actually hoping to call this from an RPGLE program on the IBMi.

So, I am a green screen guy, still kind of new to LANSA. Is there a good source to learn (or find open source) for doing APIs ? Specifically, I want to do a put to UPS (need to send return labels), then I need puts and gets for Shopify.
Are there functions in LANSA to do this?

I will not be ...

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I have a field in a LANSA defined file that is a CLOB. When I do an SQL in an SQLRPGLE program to retrieve the data the character '&' returns '&'.
How do I stop this? What causes this? Are there other characters this will happen to?

Trying to create my first virtual field. Our IBMi database stores the date in 4, 2 character fields (each 2,0). I want to create a virtual field that is MMDDYY (don't need century). My virtual field derivation looks like the below, is there a better way?

#SOendymd := (#soendy.AsString + #soendm ...

So I am trying to design and code a fairly simple set of screens, almost like the VLF-ONE example for orders, except, I need the order line detail.
So an instance list to select orders for a customer, once the order is clicked, I want to show header and detail (the detail being a subfile, IBM i term ...

Mark,
Not quite sure what that means (PDFs on our IBMi?). We bought LANSA to do these things (images on a report or screen). But it's not quite as advertised.
The person here, uses a product called Adobe Indesign, but that's a painfully manual process. I wanted to automate things.

Anyone know the best way to create reports that contain images using LANSA? I am experimenting with the #Report method, but it simply doesn't handle images well at all.
Some images are more vertical, some more horizontal. The images lose so much quality (and aspect ratio) they simply look horrible ...

Is there a way to check if the image exists before issuing the uInsertImage command ?

So, I am trying to create my first report using LANSA, and am using the examples DF_T69H10 thru H40. I can find no documentation on using the #REPORT command (or someone please correct me on what it is called).
I want images on my report. The images are stored on a non IBMi server, on our network ...

Mark,
As I run the handler, I have used sys.web.alerts to show me what processes are running. So when the handler is called the first time, I understand it should do uInitalize at that time (like INZSR fr us RPG folks). But then I would expect it to run the same routines as when just clicking a new ...

MarkDale,
I am new to LANSA, Is there an easy way to incorporate a Google chart as part of the command handler, and not the entire screen area? So I want more on the screen, besides the chart, I only want the chart (a bar chart with 3 bars) to fill part of the screen. I have spent an amazing amount ...

Can I use VL to create a PDF report? We don't have Integrator (unless somehow that is included in VL).
I want to be able to create a fairly simple item report, with item, some text, and the item image. Basically a checklist of items in a shipment.
If so, is there a sample application that comes ...

Thank you very much !!