Transferred form values

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David Williams
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I'm transferring from GM11.1 to GM11.3 and need to capture the Employee value which isn't displayed on GM11.3 but is used to limit what's displayed.
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I think values are transferred using Key Values in the .scr file. For instance in HR11, the .scr has an entry that looks like this:

2 EMP-EMPLOYEE N 09 SL H07

Any screen that has a field with the key number H07 will get passed the value when form transferred.
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And how would I retrive these values? Thanks
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Ragu Raghavan
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You would treat it like any other screen field:

for example to check if the employee filed is populated, in the PD

(IF GM11F3-EMP-EMPLOYEE NOT = ZEROES)
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Sorry for being so stupid here, but how would I assign the EMPLOYEE value to a variable within Design Studio. I'm not in the procedure division.
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Opps. Did not realize this was Design Studio forum.
I was thinking in 4GL terms.

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var sEmployee = lawForm.getDataValue("EMP-EMPLOYEE");